Sunderland Banter Archive May 21 2013

21 May 2013 23:35:28
Some players have gone crying to PFA! I challenge the players who have made the complaints to go public - let's know who you are and let the reaction of the fans tell you what they think.

This is the mentality of todays footballers its a absolute disgrace they should be sacked from the club and named to the football public so they never play in this country again or I not to mention the fact that they are all crap!

At the end of the day football players are employees and not slaves. They have he right to be treated as such regardless of how much they earn. {Ed001's Note - seriously? So being fined is now tantamount to slavery is it? Ludicrous response! Gordon Taylor is a joke and only interested in keeping himself in the media spotlight. I suppose he has to do something to prove he is worth being the highest paid union boss in history!}

They have been asked to act in a professional manner and to train for 3 hours per day and some of them are only offered £4ok per week.
This is asking too much. PDC should give them a break.
Namely their necks.

Give them a break, quality :)

21 May 2013 20:42:01
have we ever had a manager who the fans have taken to in such a short time in our history. after the milliband and the miners union fiasco a vast majority of fans got behind the club and PDC. now with taylor and the pfa coming out in the mirror about investigating PDC for fining our so called overpaid and under achieving players the fans are getting behind PDC again. having read numerous responses in the sunderland echo, readytogo, and tv comments every sunderland fan is behind PDC and his stance with these players. even other fans from different clubs giving their backing to PDC and now Adam Johnson backing him and publicly stating he has under achieved himself along with the team and stating this is the worst season in his career and also hoping that he is in the plans for next season under PDC. let's hope that the players who remain and the ones that come in for next season are better professionals and the club will be heading in the right direction. in ellis short we trust

21 May 2013 18:59:31
a few rumours going around about big money transfers coming to the sol. I would be very surprised if we make any marquee signings at the moment but i'm not saying we might not be able to get in a few big names under the bosman rulings. if we were to make any big signing in the future then we have the right chairman in place to back the manager. Short has just found out that his investment between him and his partner in loan star is now at a staggering 61 billion and he is in the process of setting up a new company in Europe hoping to get in the same deals that he has in the usa with an estimated 1 trillion pounds in the market so I think our club is in the best hands at the moment so let's be patient and see where short takes us I would think his ambitions will be quiet high for the club

Hope so we need it

I expect a few big signings heading our way for the reason that Mr Ellis is absolutely rolling in it

I think ellis could be the best chairman we have ever had seems very passionate about it too according to reports

21 May 2013 16:19:54
The mags are saying we will never get any top class players, because we aren't good enough
Remember when tevez and mascherano joined West ham???

Did West Ham even own those players?

That was more like time shares in mercenary holdings.

21 May 2013 10:48:36
I think everyone is forgetting what a legend Di Canio is in Italy he played for the national team 25years and spent time at Lazio. He will have huge pull in the Italian leagues and if he has the backing of Short (billionaire owner) why can't he attract players like Cavani or El shaawarey?

Good one.

Played for Lazio, Juventus, Napoli and AC Milan. Capped 9 times at U21 level but never capped at senior level - sorry.

I see what your getting at, but them players are too big for us
Take a couple steps down

Apart from the huge transfer fees, these players wages will be way higher than the wage structure in place here. Will that structure be scrapped? I think its unlikely, and unrealistic, to think we'll see players of Cavani's stature.

While I do think we will be aiming for a much higher calibre of player we are used to, we will sign quality and quantity but we won't be signing cavani etc far to expensive and unrealistic, them sort of players go to top 4 sides and champions league clubs. The people who are saying were getting Cavani are saying so tongue in cheek.

Unless short is going to take a gamble and pay big money I can't see us going for any players like cavani. ellis short made his money by being shrewd in the loans market so I just can't see him gambling in the transfer market

21 May 2013 09:17:29
with tottenham and arsenal apparently having a clear out in the summer who would you like to see PDC make a move for? safc93

Sigurdsson, Dawson, Rose, Ramsey, Jenkinson

All of those would do me

All of them put together would be around 30m