retired_roxy

If moronic managers and clubs are willing to play vastly overinflated prices for championship standard players, fair play to the selling clubs.

retired_kazzy2

Higginbotham is a good player tbf

retired_vika

Sunderland must be one of the top spenders this season? and the majority of what they have bought has been utter ****

retired_deljo

Just discussing this, the fee is absurd but that's the market at the moment, but I think Keane's doing something along the right lines here. Look around the Sunderland team and it doesn't strike you as the most physically assertive around. After this summer the core of their team is Nosworthy-Etuhu-Jones. Each of the three are big, strong, physical players and it's these types who will lend themselves massively to survival. Now I don't imagine for a moment that there's not players who can do these three roles better than the individuals currently there and for cheaper transfer fees but again, adapting to the country isn't necessarily something Sunderland can afford to allow in a survival season, so they'll do. I like it anyway, but I suspect I'm in the minority, and I can fully see the other arguments too.

Starling2003

Gordon is good yeah but not £9mill I don't think

Matt1010

Higginbotham is a good player tbf </BLOCKQUOTE>

Who Stoke had bought for £250K just 11 months earlier

retired_srini_aug1

Keane taking the ****. how are the saints not rolling in it with all these sales

retired_swtpe14

transfers are nuts at the moment like Martin O' Neil paying 3.5m for Knight.

trotamundos

Valid point tbf. Sure they could have got someone else for that role though.

retired_lilliepf

I agree about gordon

I can't see how signing championship players is going to really help them survive in the premiership. not saying they are bad players but really he should have got in a couple of proven top flight players.

Although saying that he may have tried but got knocked back so we probably don't know the full story.

still needs a creative midfielder.