BoroMart
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If we don’t go up then with big club interest it will be hard to keep him. I’m sure he would love to play for a premier league or foreign champs league sideDo you think the club will sell Hackney?
If we don’t go up then with big club interest it will be hard to keep him. I’m sure he would love to play for a premier league or foreign champs league sideDo you think the club will sell Hackney?
Fair enough, regardless of what some of our supporters think of Hackney? He will be very difficult to replace.If we don’t go up then with big club interest it will be hard to keep him. I’m sure he would love to play for a premier league or foreign champs league side
Think they were partly fed up with his agents behaviour, partly not wanting to block a life changing move, partly looking at it as good for summer investment. Although there’s a big possibility that Hackney goes for about 20 and rav for about 15m we still have 20m from lath minus a couple of mill loan costs. So we might have a 50m budget to sign replacements for lath, Hackney, Howson, Barlaser, Clarke, Dijksteel, Doak, Giles, Barlaser and maybe another couple. So 10 players, will give us an average of ~5m per player. It’ll be a big overhaul and if we are as successful as the last 3 or 4 windows we will move forward again. I think Hackney and lath are going to be hard to replace though.
Feels very similar to the ELL situation. We didn't sell him in the summer due to the bid coming to late in the window and then he was sold the next window.If we don’t go up then with big club interest it will be hard to keep him. I’m sure he would love to play for a premier league or foreign champs league side
I don't think we'll get anywhere near that for VDB.Think they were partly fed up with his agents behaviour, partly not wanting to block a life changing move, partly looking at it as good for summer investment. Although there’s a big possibility that Hackney goes for about 20 and rav for about 15m we still have 20m from lath minus a couple of mill loan costs. So we might have a 50m budget to sign replacements for lath, Hackney, Howson, Barlaser, Clarke, Dijksteel, Doak, Giles, Barlaser and maybe another couple. So 10 players, will give us an average of ~5m per player. It’ll be a big overhaul and if we are as successful as the last 3 or 4 windows we will move forward again. I think Hackney and lath are going to be hard to replace though.
As soon as they get the right offer.Do you think the club will sell Hackney?
The last three or four windows we’ve spent what we’ve earned. The club will never balance out until it has premier league income. Gibson knows this.I think you're overthinking this too much. I'm sure Gibson and Bauser are welcoming the large transfer fees to help balance the club on the whole. Not doubting we'll use transfer fees somewhere but I don't think it will be like-for-like average per player as mentioned here.
Also, if we're to sell Hackney I'd love us to just say £30m or he stays. Set a ridiculously high fee like other clubs do.
Sunderland haven’t had 10 players out all season. The games much easier without injury crisis.A good Championship player and that’s not being derogatory because now Boro are an above average Championship club.
Until we get promotion we will always will have to lose our best players. There are 2 main reasons for this . One is the player wants to play in the best leagues and another reason is that we now must sell just to tread water.
It’s sad to say that Sunderland now look a step above us and are about 3rd favourites to go up.
Up the Boro.
I see your reasoning Boromart and I hope you are right, but giving a main mention to injuries which everyone gets to a lesser or greater extent. Good management caters for such and 7th position is not a bad position to be in at the moment.Sunderland haven’t had 10 players out all season. The games much easier without injury crisis.
We don’t sell to stand still, we sell to invest. I’m glad we haven’t spaffed this lath money in January, we’ll get better value in the summer and there’s a big step forward about to happen
If we don’t go up I think we will shed glover, Dieng, Dijksteel, Engel, Howson, Barlaser, Hackney, McGree, Gilbert, Forss, and Coburn. Bringing in about £30m to add to the 20m from lath. I think we will spend 40m+ on a big squad overhaul. To support a squad of Brynn, Ayling, Lenihan, fry, Edmundson, rav, Borges, Bangura, Morris, Bergzorg, Azaz, and Conway. About 10 quality players will come in