I heard that the price may not have been an option for contractual reasons. I don't know how true this is? Perhaps, we could have tried to offer him more money and let him go in January if we were not challenging. That is what I sort of hoped before the season started.
I think all the other...
A Sustainable, meaning protecting the future.
Transfer fees remain in the game. Its wages and agent's fees that go out of the game and may not be sustainable.
I like the working man to get a fair whack from the bosses, so I was never one to complain about high wages (especially for short...
It will be interesting to see. If the two played for Albion, I would prefer Will Buckley to start, as he is faster and can shoot with both feet.
Except Will Buckley pulled up injured both against Hull and Derby and then the team seemed to fall apart for a bit.
Trying to think of a winger that I would like to replace Will Buckley. He would have to be as fast. The only one I can think of is Roland Lamah Not so good.
At the expense of the brilliant Will Buckley
And they thought of Tiltman before I did. I just thought we had run out of players, at first.
Harris might be a good player on day, but he does not look to have any pace.
Dean Saunders would have been brilliant if he had any pace as well.
After...
Harris was the final straw. Lots of people were saying Tiltman all over again. I wish I had not bought my season ticket right now.
It is too expensive and too much hassle with the trains to put up with boring football as well.
I was a bit mystified with the tactics against Cheltenham, but...
I am thoroughly upset. I bought my £650 season ticket on the assumption we would have at least 23 players including a left back and we would not sell our two best players, Lualua and Buckley. If I paid £400 like Sunderland fans, I would not be quite so upset though as that is affordable, just...
Nothing I have seen of Borini says he is any better than Buckley and Sunderland are reported to pay £14 million for him. So 70% of that to make allowance for hamstring absences = £9.8 million.
The real trick in buying players is to get them cheap when they are technically/good and fast players and have not reached their peak yet. And cheaper if they are off-form*. Will Buckley is the type of player we should be looking for, albeit in other positions, not a player we should be selling...
I didn't mind Upson, Ulloa and Orlandi going, but Buckley would be a downer. I did not even mind Bridcutt going, although we missed him much more than expected.
I think the story is a particularly poor fabrication.
Sunderland already have http://www.futhead.com/14/players/8476/charis-mavrias/ and West Brom have Stéphane Sessègnon so I can't see it.
http://www.futhead.com/14/players/8476/charis-mavrias/compare/14-12123/14-5839/
I don't want Buckley...