Patrick Van Aanholt - Madness.

Sam Allardyce has worked with him, so I am pretty sure he knows what he is getting.
Of course the price is inflated, Sunderland are selling to a direct rival in the fight for survival - they wouldn't let him go on the cheap.
But with Palace's first choice left back wrapped around a lamp-post, Allardyce is trying to build a team in the ever difficult January window.

Gets a few goals here and there which masks the fact he is not very good and cannot defend. 14 million in today's market is about the going rate for an average player though.

I didn't mind Palace until Allardyce took over. Horrible, obese, deputy dawg lookalike.

He is the premier leagues leading tackler I saw on SSN a few weeks ago

Think it's actuality a pretty good piece of business

Replaced by Oviedo by all accounts, who if gets game time is a very good player who will do well for Sunderland.

comment by Arouna Jagielka oooh I wanna take ya, Heitinga Nikica come on pretty mama (U1308)
posted 20 hours, 21 minutes ago
Replaced by Oviedo by all accounts, who if gets game time is a very good player who will do well for Sunderland.

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Exceptional business by Sunderland, profit and a replacement who is easily as good as Pat.

Both teams are going down though

Crystal Palace and West Ham won't go down this season.Also I would love to see Patrick vanAanholt back as a Chelsea player.

Poor article.

Turns out a decent piece of business CP and not so good for Sunderland. And no, no player in Scotland outside of Celtic can play at EPL level. So they wouldn't find anyone worth 500k who are better. And both would walk into the Celtic team. Just look at Sinclair. Championship level at best, looks a level above the dross in Scotland.