Sunderland Banter Archive January 17 2015

17 Jan 2015 12:56:07
Poyet said Defoe will be the only signing

WHAT?!

We need a creative pacey player, what's the point of getting a goalscorer when you can't get the ball to him
When Defoe was alongside Lennon they were electric, I never rated Lennon once Defoe left but he's surely worth a punt to give us that extra pace and creativity

Totally agree what's the point if no service come on poyet pace m8 needed

I'm not sure how you think we'll be able to manage to pay them. Our wage bill was pretty much maxed before, now it's most certainly maxed. Until we can get rid of some of the players I doubt we'll be able to get anyone really without selling.

The swap deal between Defoe and Jozy barely had any real difference in money between it
We've got Jozy off the wage books now and replaced him with Defoe, he is on about 10-15k more than Jozy but that isn't exactly a huge problem

The club will have money to spend, I'll be very very disappointed if we don't put any of it to use. It'll be the difference between us fighting for relegation or fighting for top 10

48k to 70-80k is still enough to screw us over. Until we get players like Cabral (shame really he has good credentials just is shockingly bad), Graham & whoever else they want rid of we are maxed out. It's not a case of "spend more" it's case of we "can't spend more" as the ffp rules screw us.

Look at how the big teams get around it, they buy adverts and sponser themselves with other companies that they are a part of to up their limits, we can't do that atm.

We've just had a string of managers who've panic bought (understandable considering results have to be NOW and not in a few seasons). and overspent on average players just to get them up here when really we should have took the long view and rebuilt from the ground up irregardless of relegation.