I've always kind of liked Kenwright but reading that has made me feel we have a bitter old man in charge of us... the 'you'll miss me when I'm gone' and 'no other chairman does what I do' gets me most.
This whole situation reminds me of Doug Ellis at the end of his Villa reign.
I hope we start out like this...
.................Howard.................
Nev......Jags......Distin......Baines
Barkley..Osman...Felli...Arteta
..........Saha........Beckford..........
I won't hold my breath though.
I'm going for 3-0 EFC - COYB!
Sunderland's signings from Bent/Henderson cash...
George McCartney on loan
David Vaughan on a free transfer
John O'Shea - £4.5m
Wes Brown - £1.5m
Roarie Deacon on a free transfer
Connor Wickham - £8m
Craig Gardner - £5m
Dong-Won Ji - £2m
Keiren Westwood on a free transfer
Sebastian Larsson on a free transfer
Ahmed Elmohamady - £1.75m
Add to that Segesson for £6m and Muntari on-loan and the probable signing of Krancjaer.
They're better off no doubt but would you sell our star player (Baines or Felli) and our potential star (Rodwell) for the list of players above?
They played in the same Sunderland team!
They have spent a lot but who in their team would you have in ours?
I'd have Gyan and Seggesson maybe Wickam on potential... I would have had Bent and maybe Henderson on potential - so essentially they've sold their best players and bought a lot of average players who will probably make them stronger overall.
If Jags (£20m) + Yobo (£3m) + Yak (£3m) + Beckford (£4m) = £30m
and
Sturridge (£15m) + Onouha (£6m) + winger + couple of loans (striker/def) = £30m
would people be happy?
Please note this is very football manager and has no actual chance of happening!!!
Would we be entertaining the sale of Beckford to fund a loan move for sturridge? If so I'd prefer Sturridge over Beckford but where would that leave us this time next year if we couldn't make Sturridge perm/extended?
If there was any link to losing Beckford (for closer to £5-6m) to fund an initial move for Sturridge with future options then I'd encourage any such move.
Just spoke to my mate after a 23 hour shift - he's got a few hours off before another likely 20 odd hours...
He also said he can't see EFC being on this w/e.
Scum - the army wants to get involved with this and show a zero tollerance attitude. Either stay indoors and be good or get mowed down by a big fuck off tank!