Summer transfer madness thread

[Damo70]

Simon Grayson is a fine appointment by Sunderland

Agree. I think he's making a mistake, however.

I'm not sure. They definitely had to go down and start again. Similar to us they had stunk out the PL for too long. Plus he has similar experience with a similar sized club in Leeds.

[kippaxvilla2]

Anyone's else worried by the lack of outgoings so far?  I know it only officially starts today but normally a few deals are already agreed by how.  Particularly when you think of how many we need to ship out.

[cdbearsfan]

I see the Doc is tweeting again, is the fact the he must announce, announce, announce mean that we have three players being announced?

It looks like he's announcing the winner of some film award to me, judging by the accompanying photos.

[ASHTONVILLA]

how so? He'd taken PNE as far as he could, surely?

I live in Preston,he has done a fine job with them. I think he would have the playoffs with PNE this season had he stayed.

[Malandro]

how so? He'd taken PNE as far as he could, surely?

I think he'd have a better shot (this season) getting Preston up, than Sunderland. New challenge, I guess.

[kippaxvilla2]

Josh Scowen signs for QPR. I think that's a great signing.

[ozzjim]

Looking around I think outs going to be a bloody tough season.  Sheff Wed are strengthening again, QPR ended the season well and are buying, the noses will have a good season under Twitch and have bought a good couple of players in already, Rowett has sombre money at Derby although Hughes and Ince going may harm them, Boro will be very strong with Monk, Fulham were excellent last season and have a good manager, Brentford finished the season well and Jota looks a player.  All in all we are a decent way off at the moment I reckon.

[cdbearsfan]

Apparently Wolves are spending twenty million Euros on someone.

[ozzjim]

Ruben Neves.  The Jorge Mendes thing at Wolves is as dodgy as it comes.

[cdbearsfan]

How so?

[passitsideways]

Neves is one of the biggest midfield prospects in Europe, and Wolves are about to get him for a relatively cut-price fee. Of course Mendes' fingerprints are all over it, it's basically his MO to orchestrate off-kilter moves for his clients.

A similar sort of thing happened at Valencia - Nuno got appointed as manager there, they managed to pick up a few good players who were Mendes clients relatively cheap, then they orchestrated a power grab after a season or so.

[devilla]

Anyone's else worried by the lack of outgoings so far?  I know it only officially starts today but normally a few deals are already agreed by how.  Particularly when you think of how many we need to ship out.

Yes I am.

[Steve67]

Even worse, I cant help thinking that we might move to a back three which includes Richards, Chester and Terry.

[Toronto Villa]

Anyone's else worried by the lack of outgoings so far?  I know it only officially starts today but normally a few deals are already agreed by how.  Particularly when you think of how many we need to ship out.

Yes I am.

LOL it's July 1st

[SoccerHQ]

Looking around I think outs going to be a bloody tough season.  Sheff Wed are strengthening again, QPR ended the season well and are buying, the noses will have a good season under Twitch and have bought a good couple of players in already, Rowett has sombre money at Derby although Hughes and Ince going may harm them, Boro will be very strong with Monk, Fulham were excellent last season and have a good manager, Brentford finished the season well and Jota looks a player.  All in all we are a decent way off at the moment I reckon.

Didn't QPR end with 9 defeats out of 11 or something.

I honestly don't see anyone out there on the level of Newcastle or even Brighton.

Sunderland still have a really poor squad so up to Grayson to wheel and deal a bit, Hull are an unknown quantity and Boro should be top 6 but their squad dosen't scare me like Newcastle's did as half of them used to play for us of course!

Of course teams like Derby and Sheff Weds should be up there again but history of championship tells us we should be more wary of teams who finished the previous year fighting relegation as promotion candidates. Which brings us to SHA....

No excuses for us not to be top 6 at the very least. I'd be really disappointed if we don't have a proper go at top 2 aswell.