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Fair comment, but I'm very concerned he won't have a winning mentality - we lacked that in the centre of the park all last season, and it feels like a stretch to expect him to lead the midfield in the manner we'll require.

I guess time will tell as to how strong a character he will be.

 

Don’t rate him but I understand the logic given his home grown status and the fact he won’t be very expensive. As a squad player that’s fine if we want to keep him but if we plan to have him as a regular first team player in our midfield I will be very concerned.

 

Significant upgrade on Cullen apparently though

 

Oh god, I forgot somebody said that....

Christ...

 

How do you know McBurnie will be sold? Or some of our current crop will be offloaded?

Danny Devine serves no purpose. He's sh&te.

 

Fordy are you related to Edin Rahic as he also reckoned to know football but knew f..k all ?

 

May have a point but when we have no idea when we get to “reserve judgement” until, it doesn’t help. You’re right that he missed the whole of last season. Actually, he’s been missing for over 18mths....!

 

Firstly, what the chuff has the impending transfer of McBurnie got to do with your comment? The club have already said that any monies received from his sale would be used to offset the debt caused by last season. Nobody has suggested the windfall would be going into the player budget. Same goes with Wyke for that matter.

Secondly, I will repeat my point. Why spend wages (irrelevant as to how little it is), on a player that has 3-4 midfielders in front of him ALREADY in the pecking order?

Finally, we have around £1m more in the bank to improve this squad. That equates to around £19,230 a week. But realistically that’s only the equivalent of 5 new players earning an average of £3k a week (£3k x 5 x 52wks =£780k). This leaves us around £220k to pay any signing-on fees, agents fees and bonuses. I’m sure you’d agree that £1m doesn’t stretch that far really.

 

You’re an angry man, Fordy.

I don’t know this will happen, just like you don’t know Devine won’t excel when called upon.

 

We absolutely have. Nearer 10k than 5k. Believe me.

 

Any good at maths Ricc? If you are, try working out how much £10k x 52wks costs.

Bearing in mind we have been told that the remaining 16 players are costing us £1.6m, how the frig do you work that out? Even if only 2 of those 16 earn half a million pounds each, that leaves £600k to pay the remaining 14 players, at an average of just £825 a week.

REALLY????

 

Sean scannell.

 

None of which is factual- these are just your thoughts with zero evidence to back it up.

The club stayed in the Q&A session that “if various sell-ons of previous transfer deals come off, the club’s finances will be stronger. That includes a potential promotion bonus on the Charlie Wyke transfer, if Sunderland win the play off final this weekend. The big one is Oli McBurnie, which the club retain a 15% sell-on fee for. Ryan said he has seen the paperwork that confirms the sell-on fee exists, despite the Sun’s Alan Nixon recently claiming otherwise. Any McBurnie windfall will help to plug the debts”.

To get out of this league you have to be lucky as well as have some talented players. We don’t have any yet, so will need to spend to bring in the quality we need. Quality players cost money - fact

 

It’s what the club announced. Which is darn more likely to be true than some rumour you have heard.

Not wanting to pick a fight on this, but there is no grey area here. Believe the club’s comment or your view based on a rumour you’ve heard elsewhere?

 

Don't know which one is worse.

This or giving Omari Patrick a 3 year contract after about 3 decent games.

 

I for one would certainly have issues if I came into work and found out Riley and Wright were on way more than me

 

So we don't have a competitive budget then like Rupp and Rhodes said we would?

 

I agree ....... They are already eating into our budget, but hopefully less, if we can shift some ?

 

Has Edin bought a new play thing