Sunderland Rumours Archive July 09 2014

 

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09 Jul 2014 18:42:54
Does anyone know what's happening regarding the invest in Africa that safc got involved in? My understanding was that one of the reasons we got involved was to boost safc shirt revenue. How are we getting on with that? Sold any yet?

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11 Jul 2014 10:10:25
Invest in Africa was set up bu Tullow Oil to improve their very dodgy image. No other company would invest in the fund and Sunderland became concerned about bad publicity when Tullow were taken to court in Uganda on bribery and environmental damage charges. Both parties walked away from the deal which was supposed to be worth £20 million a season - that's 20 times what Tombola was worth.

Bidvest are also an African company but you'd have to sell a lot of shirts to make £20 million.

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12 Jul 2014 02:38:49
So another poor decision made by the safc board. They fill ya with confidence

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12 Jul 2014 04:06:07
We should be investing in the team than in africa lol

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09 Jul 2014 16:46:23
OK

Vergini is just a no for me. He was shocking at CB and only appeared better at RB due to how bad he was at CB. Please just steer away from him!

Cabral & N'Diaye. I can only assume that one or both of these are on silly high wages (probably Cabral) as I saw no reason to loan them out. If it was me I would assess them in pre season as it might just save us transfer fees. Cabral especially was tremendous in Hong Kong and man of the match against Fulham then bang. Gone!

Ed's, do you have any info on his rapid fall from first team grace?

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Poyet seemed to make his mind up pretty quick and he clearly doesn't fancy him. I would be surprised if we see him back, but I've not heard ant reason why.}

09 Jul 2014 09:44:19
have heard that sunderland are close to Jack Rodwell on loan from Manchester City still only 23 years old I think he will be a good signing opinions?

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I'd rather we buy him now while he'll be cheapish because if he shows his potential again like when he was at everton, we would never afford to buy him (unless there is an option to buy)

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09 Jul 2014 11:29:13
Agree about signing rather than loan deals after we have been burned in the past . supporters are worried about the lack of ambition and activity in the transfer market with pre season training ongoing!. Fulham just splashed £11million on a striker to get them back into the premiership!. and S. Bruce has signed some quality players at a small club like Hull!.we need to show ambition and for Short to release the purse strings otherwise we are going to struggle this season!

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09 Jul 2014 11:31:12
I see we are looking at a Nigerian midfielder Babatunde!. mind he broke his wrist at the World cup so again hell be out for a while!

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I wouldn't buy him as he is a risk. He's not played a lot of football recently and for a 23-year old he looks like he could be blighted with injuries looking at he amount of time he's missed already.

I think a loan is right but the addition of an option to buy would make sense in case the fears are not realised.

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09 Jul 2014 17:28:28
Just because other teams are spending silly money there's no need for us to panic. 11m for McCormick is well over the odds but he's proven in the Championship so if he gets them promoted it will be a shrewd move. As far as Hull are concerned they've signed Snodgrass but in true Brucey style they've paid top dollar plus a bit and Tom Ince has been hawked all around Europe by his old man. Yey to be convinced by him personally

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