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but improving the defence can allow more players to attack with freedom

Its not always a "bigger" club either. When Nasri left arsenal to go to man city they weren't bigger in terms of recent success they just had more money (or perhaps were prepared to spend more) to pay him in wages.

Bruno? Brezovan?

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It doesn't matter, Acker likes things to be accurate. :)

I think if he was unhappy with his agent he could easily find another agent to represent him

If you think about it logically Albion (selling club) have more to gain from the story being leaked as more buyers know about the availability and then a bidding war. All buying clubs want transfers to be a secret else you may as well not bother scouting and just wait for your competitors to bid...

His agent will want to get him the best deal as he'll get a percentage Gus won't be involved in negotiations there's people who do that and Sunderland will have their own agent(s) Why would gus want to leak a transfer target and give any rivals a chance to gazump them, I don't recall that...

I am too, i was just responding to the bit where you said later in january is better but its not always the case. :)

i wasn't suggesting we would be rushed or steamrollered, my point was its a fine line between maximising the fee without scuppering the deal and ending up with a worthless "asset".

However you also run the risk of losing the deal completely. Imagine the club plays hardball, Sunderland then find another target and sign him, Bridcutt gets p*ssed off we didn't let him move to the premier league and so refuses to sign a new deal and next january has less than 6 months left...

* the better players i was referring to was the opponents they would be facing. Playing against chelsea etc he'll have his hands full and get more experience playing against the top players * yes no doubt they'll be a relegation clause but i'm sure that will still be significantly more than we...

there is more chance of him being in the premier next season with sunderland than with us, and next season if we are both in the championship, sunderland will have a btter chance of going back up with parachute money etc so its a calculated gamble. Plus if he plays a very good half season in...

*he gets more experience of better players challenging him, you could argue going to a bottom end premier club is better for his development than a top end one * he ends up in the championship but on far higher wages so its win-win *He wouldn't need to live in sunderland, have you heard of...

yes ii'm sure they would discuss these things however (assuming he is the major earner in their household) his partner would have to be reasonable if he's going to treble his salary and that his career is a short one so needs to maximise it whilst he can. Its only going to be for a few years...