avfc1982am Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet but although its a massive amount. It is only the money from the milner sale and I would think that the makoun money has come from sidwell, shorey, davis leaving etc.Possibly others leaving. Are we really splashing out or just spending whats in the pot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJVilla Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 The Sunderland forum RTG when down so much this afternoon. It got that bad, that apparently at one point they banned anyone just lurking as a visitor so that their fans could get on and give Bent some grief. And we thought we'd have meltdown here? haha Incredible read though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackpotForeigner Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Rumour on BBC site is that Chelsea are planning a hijack. Has this got to the stage where it's hijack-proof? You'd think Bent would be crazy to join Chelsea from a career perspective, but if he fancies earning more money, living in London and sitting on the bench at Champion's League games...??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisNichollsToe Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet but although its a massive amount. It is only the money from the milner sale and I would think that the makoun money has come from sidwell, shorey, davis leaving etc.Possibly others leaving. Are we really splashing out or just spending whats in the pot? I think its proberly always been there, just that he did not trust Martin with it. And i think more are coming, because this signing is a statement of intent 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sellyoakvilla Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Rumour on BBC site is that Chelsea are planning a hijack. Has this got to the stage where it's hijack-proof? You'd think Bent would be crazy to join Chelsea from a career perspective, but if he fancies earning more money, living in London and sitting on the bench at Champion's League games...??? Is passing a medical, agreeing terms and looking at flats in the Birmingham area enough to suggest he'll sign ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoody Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 I think a mixture of the two.. Do i think we'd have spent 24m if we were higher up the table? No. We probably would have spent it across a few players to strengthen the squad and remove the drab. But i think our position and talking to GH has convinced him what we all knew we needed. A Striker AND get rid of the drab, it just reamins to be seen what happens in the summer, a few more in over the jan window will be fantastic. Then maybe in the summer we'd only need a GK and a midfielder [presuming we get a LB, CB, Adam this window and keep Downing and Young] I believe we've had the pot and a few million (10-15m?) from Randy aslong as we save on wages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roymcbean Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 SAFC's third choice striker. £24m is excellent business. He may score a goal or two but you need more than that to get your team out of a relegation scrap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sellyoakvilla Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 I'll say this though, I don't think we would have made this bid if Heskey wasn't suspended, it's just added another two weeks on top of trying to get rid of Carew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisNichollsToe Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Rumour on BBC site is that Chelsea are planning a hijack. Has this got to the stage where it's hijack-proof? You'd think Bent would be crazy to join Chelsea from a career perspective, but if he fancies earning more money, living in London and sitting on the bench at Champion's League games...??? I think the deal is done. I think the delay in announcing it, is to allow Sunderland to save some face with their enraged support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sellyoakvilla Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 SAFC's third choice striker. £24m is excellent business. He may score a goal or two but you need more than that to get your team out of a relegation scrap. Gyan and Welbeck will do nicely for the weekend's game. £24m to spunk on a couple of players will boost European credentials. Third choice striker Behind a striker who isn't even yours (Welbeck) and a striker who has only just joined and can be found on the bench more often than not? Don't be so bitter. Edit: and it's 19m cheers not 24. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoyman Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 The Chelsea hijack rumour linked on BBC appears to be risible fanfic written by a teenager on noted source of credible investigative journalism "caughtoffside.com" That Sunderland thread is prob. basically identical to the x number of pages of "lol as if Barry would go to City" on here two summers ago, I feel a bit bad for them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carew_villa Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Just to ask, is the transfer fee £18 million or £24 million or 18 rising to 24 million and on what condition are they? 18 mill is reasonable for Bent, but 24 is over the top IMO. Doesn't really matter too much for Villa though really, we care more about wages and we've had money left over to spend from the £30 million Citeh gave us. As long as Bent scores the goals, I don't think Bent's price has too much significance, we've been crying out for a player like this for years. Also shows how bad MON was in the transfer market when he could have got him for £10-15 million. Just on a side note, I think Sunderland fans, in general, have taken the news really really well. I know for sure if the roles were reversed, Villa fans would be fuming. I just hope Sunderland don't invest the money we give them on great players, I hope Bruce wastes the money on another player like Gyan (don't rate him). Reading the start of the Bent thread on the Sunderland forum gave me a flashback to when we all first found out about Barry moving to Citeh on VT. Everybody was in sheer disbelief and refused to believe it was true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NowDoINotLikeThat Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 SAFC's third choice striker. £24m is excellent business. He may score a goal or two but you need more than that to get your team out of a relegation scrap. Gyan and Welbeck will do nicely for the weekend's game. £24m to spunk on a couple of players will boost European credentials. Third choice striker? lol behave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoyman Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 Bottom line is - countless bent threads makes us look like bitter bastards as someone on here said earlier - we are a medium club - they are a big club - they sign 24million strikers we will sign Kenny Miller. He's a class act and has a goal ratio of less than 1 in 2 for s'land. No matter how people try and convince themselves that vile have fecked up here - sadly it aint true This Blues one fills me with a warm, fuzzy combination of schadenfreude, grudging respect and the scarcely perceptible nagging terror that he might be wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoody Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 SAFC's third choice striker. £24m is excellent business. He may score a goal or two but you need more than that to get your team out of a relegation scrap. Gyan and Welbeck will do nicely for the weekend's game. £24m to spunk on a couple of players will boost European credentials. Third choice striker? theres a reason your boards went down when news broke and that its been all over the news. Welbeck is A) Not yours and never will be Injured for 6 weeks Gyan is good, not proven properly yet, had a good world cup and been okay so far. you need a new striker and fast. Good Luck. Robbie Keane's free I've heard. SAFC get screwed over in the transfer market more than we do so good luck with your European credentials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 SAFC's third choice striker. £24m is excellent business. He may score a goal or two but you need more than that to get your team out of a relegation scrap. Come on mate, Bent was your first choice striker and you know it. Just like Barry was our first choice central midfielder, as was Milner a year later. I'm sure you'll reinvest the money wisely. (Also.. we've easily got the players to climb away from a relegation battle) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisNichollsToe Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 SAFC's third choice striker. £24m is excellent business. He may score a goal or two but you need more than that to get your team out of a relegation scrap. Come on mate, Bent was your first choice striker and you know it. Just like Barry was our first choice central midfielder, as was Milner a year later. I'm sure you'll reinvest the money wisely. (Also.. we've easily got the players to climb away from a relegation battle) Theyve just realised that they are not as big as they thought they were Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 SAFC's third choice striker. £24m is excellent business. He may score a goal or two but you need more than that to get your team out of a relegation scrap. According to your OS He has played 19 scored 8 Gyan played 18 scored 6 Wellbeck played 20 scored 6 Those stats pretty much show Bent is your main threat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parisvilla Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 SAFC's third choice striker. £24m is excellent business. He may score a goal or two but you need more than that to get your team out of a relegation scrap. you moron son Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claret75 Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 This is quite funny, watch the Sunderland fans call the OP all sorts of names and laugh at us..........Then the realisation dawns on them!! http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=558999&page=13 It's cruel, but that's funny. I've never seen :shock: used so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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