Just catching up here. re AFCW, you have both forgotten one thing. They are on course to move into their new stadium next year. They (the fans) have financed that stadium themselves. They will have a 10k capacity, probably filling it regardless of whether they are relegated, due to the pride factor, as we had when we returned to The Valley. They will have corporate hospitality revenue, perhaps a naming rights sponsor. I reckon that should see a 150% increase in revenue.
Still struggling a bit though with idea that we turned down £2M for Grant then sold him for a reported £1.5M?
Also that remark about daSilva. Where did that come from? Admittedly I may have missed it on here, as @Covered End likes to point out.
I also only found out this morning from my erstwhile host that Sunderland paid £4m for Grigg. He wonders if that is a sensible price, and I agree, but it shows both that they have some money and are prepared to use it to get up this season.
It’s extremely sensible if they get promoted. Bit of pressure if he doesn’t hit the ground running though.
Still struggling a bit though with idea that we turned down £2M for Grant then sold him for a reported £1.5M?
Also that remark about daSilva. Where did that come from? Admittedly I may have missed it on here, as @Covered End likes to point out.
I also only found out this morning from my erstwhile host that Sunderland paid £4m for Grigg. He wonders if that is a sensible price, and I agree, but it shows both that they have some money and are prepared to use it to get up this season.
It’s extremely sensible if they get promoted. Bit of pressure if he doesn’t hit the ground running though.
I dunno. £4m. and then his wages. I think that is more than the pathetic TV money you get in Div 2. Deffo right about the pressure, too.
Still struggling a bit though with idea that we turned down £2M for Grant then sold him for a reported £1.5M?
Also that remark about daSilva. Where did that come from? Admittedly I may have missed it on here, as @Covered End likes to point out.
I also only found out this morning from my erstwhile host that Sunderland paid £4m for Grigg. He wonders if that is a sensible price, and I agree, but it shows both that they have some money and are prepared to use it to get up this season.
It’s extremely sensible if they get promoted. Bit of pressure if he doesn’t hit the ground running though.
I dunno. £4m. and then his wages. I think that is more than the pathetic TV money you get in Div 2. Deffo right about the pressure, too.
Where has £4 million come from, sky were reporting £1.5. He has never done it in the championship has he?
Just catching up here. re AFCW, you have both forgotten one thing. They are on course to move into their new stadium next year. They (the fans) have financed that stadium themselves. They will have a 10k capacity, probably filling it regardless of whether they are relegated, due to the pride factor, as we had when we returned to The Valley. They will have corporate hospitality revenue, perhaps a naming rights sponsor. I reckon that should see a 150% increase in revenue.
Still struggling a bit though with idea that we turned down £2M for Grant then sold him for a reported £1.5M?
Also that remark about daSilva. Where did that come from? Admittedly I may have missed it on here, as @Covered End likes to point out.
I also only found out this morning from my erstwhile host that Sunderland paid £4m for Grigg. He wonders if that is a sensible price, and I agree, but it shows both that they have some money and are prepared to use it to get up this season.
It’s extremely sensible if they get promoted. Bit of pressure if he doesn’t hit the ground running though.
I dunno. £4m. and then his wages. I think that is more than the pathetic TV money you get in Div 2. Deffo right about the pressure, too.
Where has £4 million come from, sky were reporting £1.5. He has never done it in the championship has he?
Think the deal is 3m then another 1m if they get promoted.
May have missed it on here but Gallen is apparently speaking to Bowyer on Monday about some out of contract / free agents / players where clubs will pay to terminate a players contract and there for available to clubs outside the window. Perhaps there’s some interesting options there?
Still struggling a bit though with idea that we turned down £2M for Grant then sold him for a reported £1.5M?
Also that remark about daSilva. Where did that come from? Admittedly I may have missed it on here, as @Covered End likes to point out.
I also only found out this morning from my erstwhile host that Sunderland paid £4m for Grigg. He wonders if that is a sensible price, and I agree, but it shows both that they have some money and are prepared to use it to get up this season.
It’s extremely sensible if they get promoted. Bit of pressure if he doesn’t hit the ground running though.
I dunno. £4m. and then his wages. I think that is more than the pathetic TV money you get in Div 2. Deffo right about the pressure, too.
Where has £4 million come from, sky were reporting £1.5. He has never done it in the championship has he?
Only a text from my Sunderland supporting host in Eltham, don't take it as authoritative. Think any fee above £1m assuming a long contract is risky for a club in their position. Would of course have been happy if we had spent even £1.
Still struggling a bit though with idea that we turned down £2M for Grant then sold him for a reported £1.5M?
Also that remark about daSilva. Where did that come from? Admittedly I may have missed it on here, as @Covered End likes to point out.
I also only found out this morning from my erstwhile host that Sunderland paid £4m for Grigg. He wonders if that is a sensible price, and I agree, but it shows both that they have some money and are prepared to use it to get up this season.
It’s extremely sensible if they get promoted. Bit of pressure if he doesn’t hit the ground running though.
I dunno. £4m. and then his wages. I think that is more than the pathetic TV money you get in Div 2. Deffo right about the pressure, too.
Where has £4 million come from, sky were reporting £1.5. He has never done it in the championship has he?
Think the deal is 3m then another 1m if they get promoted.
Just had a quick Google, "deal worth up to 4 million" god knows what that actually means.
May have missed it on here but Gallen is apparently speaking to Bowyer on Monday about some out of contract / free agents / players where clubs will pay to terminate a players contract and there for available to clubs outside the window. Perhaps there’s some interesting options there?
They will have to been free agents before the window shut to play this season.
Darren Bent, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Giles Barnes, Jay Simpson or Lee Irwin seem the only candidates that are free agents and might be able to do a job, all pretty unlikely though
Sunderland sold over £22m of players since last summer,so why is £4m a lot for them on someone that could take them up with goals.Also they get over 30,000 gates some matches over 40,000.
Guarantees goals in this league and after 98 they’re the one team I’d rather avoid in the play-offs. Overpriced for someone that’s not done it at Championship level.
my conversation with someone very much in the know has said bents a no, not wages more age and the "powers from above". Lee Erwin is a potential, he said 2 or 3 others also will be discussed, people that have been paid up to release.
Massively overpriced as Wigan knew Sunderland were desperate
true but when u have an owner who attends games, gets the emotion and wants to enjoy his ownership of the club, if it sees them promoted, it will be money well spent - the complete opposite of the bloke who owns us
my conversation with someone very much in the know has said bents a no, not wages more age and the "powers from above". Lee Erwin is a potential, he said 2 or 3 others also will be discussed, people that have been paid up to release.
Age shouldn't matter to an owner that won't even get promising young players on contracts past this season. Not sure Erwin is the answer, more of a target man and hasn't scored many.
my conversation with someone very much in the know has said bents a no, not wages more age and the "powers from above". Lee Erwin is a potential, he said 2 or 3 others also will be discussed, people that have been paid up to release.
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Just catching up here. re AFCW, you have both forgotten one thing. They are on course to move into their new stadium next year. They (the fans) have financed that stadium themselves. They will have a 10k capacity, probably filling it regardless of whether they are relegated, due to the pride factor, as we had when we returned to The Valley. They will have corporate hospitality revenue, perhaps a naming rights sponsor. I reckon that should see a 150% increase in revenue.
All the work of their own fans.
Bit of pressure if he doesn’t hit the ground running though.
Perhaps there’s some interesting options there?
The average career of a professional footballer lasts just eight years, according to the PFA.
Good guess on my part.