This is our 25-man squad........sorry 24. As of 8.00pm we only have a squad of 24 players.
01. GK Lucas Perri (27) 10/12/1997 (4)
26. GK Karl Darlow (35) 08/10/1990 (1)
21. GK Alex Cairns (32) 04/01/1993 (1)
02. RB Jayden Bogle (24) 27/07/2000 (3)
24. RB James Justin (27) 23/02/1998 (4)
25. RB Sam Byram (31) 16/09//1993 (1)
03. LB Gabriel Gudmonsson (26) 29/04/1999 (4)
06. RCB Joe Rodon (27) 22/10/1997 (3)
23 RCB Sebastiaan Bornauw (26) 22/03/1999 (4)
15 .LCB Jaka Bijol (26) 05/02/1999 (5)
05. LCB Pascal Struijk (26) 11/08/1999 (2)
04. CM Ethan Ampadu (24) 14/09/2000 (2)
44. CM Ilia Gruev (25) 06/05/2000 (2)
08. CM Sean Longstaff (27) 30/10/1997 (4)
22. CM Ao Tanaka (26) 10/09/1998 (3)
18 CM Anton Stach (26) 15/11/1998 (4)
07. RM Dan James (27) 10/11/1997 (4)
29. LM Willy Gnonto (21) 05/11/2003 (3)
19. LM Noah Okafor (25) 24/05/2000 (4)
20. LM Jack Harrison (28) 20/11/1996 (3)
11. AM Brenden Aaronson (24) 22/10/2000 (2)
10. ST Joel Piroe (26) 02/08/1999 (2)
14. ST Lukas Nmecha (26) 14/12/1998 (2)
09. ST Dominic Calvert-Lewin (28) 16/03/1997 (3)
A transfer window that has been more about quantity than quality.
Firstly we have to look at the reason for needing the quantity.
- Decided against offering Firpo a contract he would accept.
- Released Bamford with a year still on his contract.
- Sold Kristensen
- Agreed to loan out Wober
- Agreed to loan out Joseph
- Agreed to loan out Schmidt
- Agreed to loan out Ramazani
- Agreed to loan out Gelhardt
The need for so many incoming players was created by the clubs choice.
An £8m signing of Justin could possibly have been saved by offering Firpo a decent deal. Will Bornauw be any better than Wober? Will Okafor be any better than Ramazani. The need for so many players has diluted the war chest. The top transfer fee of only £18m is a lot less than the money paid out for Rodrigo in our last entry into the top flight. Its also less than all other clubs who are fighting relegation.
At this stage to have only 24 players, having released Bamford and loaned out Ramazani is mind-blowing. The failure to land Wilson this evening will be simply outrageous to end up in this position.
What we have is a meaty bunch of players who are going to have to fight and scrap for every point. Its likely going to be a case of how many 1-0 wins we can grind out to try and get to the 38-point mark.
My hope is that so far we have played against the 1st 4th and 8th best defences of last seasons conceded goals table. Perhaps when we play weaker defensive teams we will look more threatening.
For now though its down to Leeds to get a 25th man or there will be trouble. The 49-ers promised to spend as much money as possible to give us a chance....so far this is not the case. Once again the king of contracts has failed to live up to his own ego/hype.
Pick the window apart time
posted 1 week, 4 days ago
Just read a great point re new players:
How many of them were Farke choices?
If all of them were, then he can't say he wasn't backed.
If one or two weren't, are we about to see those
new players Ramazzanied into the abyss?
posted 1 week, 3 days ago
comment by Batty - Fraudy 9ers (U4664)
posted 6 hours, 8 minutes ago
Nice to see you giving new signings time to bed in.
^^^
Okafor already has. A medical bed.
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posted 1 week, 3 days ago
Interesting comments from Brobbey, Sunderland's 'transfer day deadline' striker. He said the deal was agreed a month ago but it looks like Sunderland waited the window out in case something better came up.
By comparison, our bid for Wilson looks like a last minute punt of despair, which Fulham milked to ensure we didn't get anyone else.
There's the proper way to do business and there's the Leeds way. Will we ever learn?
posted 1 week, 3 days ago
they've just sent me the email advertising the Adidas Terrace Icons range. Which looks amazing btw. But f off.
So predictable.
posted 1 week, 3 days ago
comment by Kebablegs (U17699)
posted 10 hours, 20 minutes ago
£18M spent on an attack which has lost Solomons 21 goal contributions and Largie Ramazani on loan to Valencia as well as Bamford and Joseph. Leeds have scored 1 goal in 3 games, a penalty. Hard not to feel for Farke and Leeds fans.
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Our lack of goal threat is a major worry. Having watched all 3 games so far can anybody honestly say we look like scoring from open play?
2 clean sheets is a good start but as we saw against a top side we cannot hope to survive on 0-0 draws and 1-0 penalty wins.
The failure to land a fit, proven goal scorer will come back to haunt us I fear.
posted 1 week, 3 days ago
comment by The heart of Farkeness (U19827)
posted 3 hours, 23 minutes ago
Interesting comments from Brobbey, Sunderland's 'transfer day deadline' striker. He said the deal was agreed a month ago but it looks like Sunderland waited the window out in case something better came up.
By comparison, our bid for Wilson looks like a last minute punt of despair, which Fulham milked to ensure we didn't get anyone else.
There's the proper way to do business and there's the Leeds way. Will we ever learn?
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What does it tell you about the quality of the player that no other club other than Sunderland has wanted him for a month, and that Sunderland themselves have sat around hoping they could attract better? Hardly a vote of confidence in the chap.
posted 1 week, 3 days ago
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by The heart of Farkeness (U19827)
posted 3 hours, 23 minutes ago
Interesting comments from Brobbey, Sunderland's 'transfer day deadline' striker. He said the deal was agreed a month ago but it looks like Sunderland waited the window out in case something better came up.
By comparison, our bid for Wilson looks like a last minute punt of despair, which Fulham milked to ensure we didn't get anyone else.
There's the proper way to do business and there's the Leeds way. Will we ever learn?
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What does it tell you about the quality of the player that no other club other than Sunderland has wanted him for a month, and that Sunderland themselves have sat around hoping they could attract better? Hardly a vote of confidence in the chap.
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But I'm also amazed that we didn't have something similar lined up once it was clear we could end up in this situation.
I fully expected us to have a couple of options ready to go. Why hadn't we done this with Spertsyan for example? The club have definitely been interested. Buonanotte was rightly the preference and as I have said we were unlucky that that didn't work out. But have a safety net man.
I expected us to have similar options lined up for Aaronson, Harrison, Piroe just in case a top player became available similar to Raphinha situation.
It does look like were either under-prepared or over confident.
posted 1 week, 3 days ago
comment by HaveFaithInLeeds (U8688)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by The heart of Farkeness (U19827)
posted 3 hours, 23 minutes ago
Interesting comments from Brobbey, Sunderland's 'transfer day deadline' striker. He said the deal was agreed a month ago but it looks like Sunderland waited the window out in case something better came up.
By comparison, our bid for Wilson looks like a last minute punt of despair, which Fulham milked to ensure we didn't get anyone else.
There's the proper way to do business and there's the Leeds way. Will we ever learn?
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What does it tell you about the quality of the player that no other club other than Sunderland has wanted him for a month, and that Sunderland themselves have sat around hoping they could attract better? Hardly a vote of confidence in the chap.
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But I'm also amazed that we didn't have something similar lined up once it was clear we could end up in this situation.
I fully expected us to have a couple of options ready to go. Why hadn't we done this with Spertsyan for example? The club have definitely been interested. Buonanotte was rightly the preference and as I have said we were unlucky that that didn't work out. But have a safety net man.
I expected us to have similar options lined up for Aaronson, Harrison, Piroe just in case a top player became available similar to Raphinha situation.
It does look like were either under-prepared or over confident.
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For certain on the last point. They deserve criticism for how the approach for an attacker went.
However, I don't see many players willingly sitting around waiting to see if the agreed move to a Premier league relegation side manifests. Surely most players back themselves to be better than that?
posted 1 week, 3 days ago
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by HaveFaithInLeeds (U8688)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Lubo - Struijk of Genius (U14008)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by The heart of Farkeness (U19827)
posted 3 hours, 23 minutes ago
Interesting comments from Brobbey, Sunderland's 'transfer day deadline' striker. He said the deal was agreed a month ago but it looks like Sunderland waited the window out in case something better came up.
By comparison, our bid for Wilson looks like a last minute punt of despair, which Fulham milked to ensure we didn't get anyone else.
There's the proper way to do business and there's the Leeds way. Will we ever learn?
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What does it tell you about the quality of the player that no other club other than Sunderland has wanted him for a month, and that Sunderland themselves have sat around hoping they could attract better? Hardly a vote of confidence in the chap.
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But I'm also amazed that we didn't have something similar lined up once it was clear we could end up in this situation.
I fully expected us to have a couple of options ready to go. Why hadn't we done this with Spertsyan for example? The club have definitely been interested. Buonanotte was rightly the preference and as I have said we were unlucky that that didn't work out. But have a safety net man.
I expected us to have similar options lined up for Aaronson, Harrison, Piroe just in case a top player became available similar to Raphinha situation.
It does look like were either under-prepared or over confident.
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For certain on the last point. They deserve criticism for how the approach for an attacker went.
However, I don't see many players willingly sitting around waiting to see if the agreed move to a Premier league relegation side manifests. Surely most players back themselves to be better than that?
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Yeah, and I agree that those that we would have been happy to wait would have been below the standard we had hoped for. but they would have been better than what we got.
posted 1 week, 3 days ago
I don't have anytime for anyone that thinks this was a deliberate ploy by the 49ers to cash in on the premier league, do it on the cheap, take their cash out and don't care if we get relegated though.
It's just nonsense that makes no sense.
Relegation hurts them as much as it does us. In very different ways as they may not necessarily care about the results for the same reasons are us. But it hurts them financially an awful lot.