S-Clarke

Sunderland have signed another striker, or at least are about to. Think Stewart is ours bar the shouting. Sunderland agree Rusyn transfer with Zorya Luhansk Sunderland have agreed a transfer with Zorya Luhansk for the transfer of Nazariy Rusyn for an undisclosed fee. The striker has completed a medical in Paris and agreed a four-year contract at the Stadium of Light, with a club option of a further year. The move will be finalised subject to international clearance.

I'm not worried about Che if he stays, he's a good lad with the right attitude. Well liked within the club and he was offered the vice captaincy for a reason. It's not like he's seen a dream move fall through or anything, it's just a relegation scrap in Wolverhampton. Even Weston Shore is more appealing.

He's signing, but he may not be signing. The medical hit a snag, but it also could have gone fine.

People on twitter are having a field day making stuff up today.

Football fans are weird.

I wasn't even counting him as an option when we were thinking about new CB's this summer, he did so well at this level last year I assumed he was out of our reach. I watched a few of Burnleys games last year because of Tella mainly, and THB is a royals Royce. PL level player without a doubt and this is a signing I'd have been chuffed with a PL level, so this is one I'm really excited about. It's not just Burnley he excelled at, he was equally as impressive when England won the euro's. The guy is a winner, championship title and a Euro's in 1 summer - need guys like him, so this is a signing the club have pulled the rabbit out of the hat on.

If it's Everton, it'll be £30m spread over 60 years. 500k per year. I'll be dead by the time they pay it back.

I can't even watch it anymore. I used to stick deadline day on back in the old days, 2010-2013 ish, but they've made an absolute charade out of it.

Deadline day is media driven nonsense, 99% of what is being reported today is either made up or been in the works for weeks. The chuckle brothers on SSN sensationalise everything to make it sound like clubs have just decided they want x or y.

Diallo was quality last season as well, could have had a PL loan this year but injury put a stop to that.

The same Jack Clarke who has a Premier League market? (and a long contract). That to me is an example of the expectations being skewed, we're not signing players like that if we're not in the PL.

The only reason I can think of fans being underwhelmed is that they haven't, as yet, come to terms with the level we're at. So they see us going for Championship players and all of a sudden get upset.

I'm not sure why people are underwhelmed by Patrick Roberts, he was a star at this level last year. I don't think we're trying to sign a straight replacement for Tella, if you look at the makeup of our squad we already have the quick wide players in SAA, Edozie, Fraser, Sulemana (if he stays). Patrick Roberts reminds me more of a Lallana type of AM. He can play from the left, the right but I'm not sure yet if he makes messi look shite. Genuinely though he's a technically gifted AM, different profile to Tella but a profile I'd suggest we don't really have at the mo.

We're signing all their players.

The football people in charge are too smart to let that happen. It's not the same as last year.

From how I've read it, Wolves can't give us £15m now. But they can next summer. (no idea why). So, they're taking him on loan with a small loan fee I assume. There is an obligation to buy for £15m. He extends his contract here by 1 year before he makes the move so his value remains next summer.

So the unthinkable is happening then. He's off on loan to Wolves. Bonkers. He signs a new deal so we keep value, and wolves pay £15m next summer. Just seems bizarre as we're losing out on a striker for this season and have no money to reinvest. (Well, not the price we asked for). Is he really that desperate to move?

Patrick Roberts is an interesting one. He was a really young talent when he was snapped up by Wilcox at City, he didn't really break through at City and ended up going on loan a bit - before finally settling somewhere at Sunderland. So this is someone Wilcox will know all about anyway, makes a lot of sense.

Lol

There were nonsense rumours about Che leaving on loan last window, that was knocked on the head fairly quickly. Luckily we only have 1 more day of this crap. We do not let him go on loan, we either get £££ for him, or he stays.

Yeah, nothing major though - missed weeks at best, which again is pretty common for a lot of players. He's certainly not injury prone from what I can see.

Is there any reason why he is described as injury prone? I can literally only see one bad injury in his entire career, which can happen to anyone, so I'm not sure how that equates to him being injury prone. Fair enough, if he had a few ankle injuries over the years etc - but he hasn't.

I appreciate that Kalvin Phillips had a good Euros, 2 flaming years ago, but the guy doesn't play football anymore so he shouldn't be getting international honours in front of people who are getting game time. Granted, we don't have many midfield options - but you'd think JWP, as he's playing and Phillips isn't, should be in there. The inclusion of Maguire is equally as pointless ahead of someone like Ben White.

I heard about this a few days ago, a real shame as this was a good opportunity for him. He's highly rated and was desperate for some football league game time. Hope it doesn't set him back too much.

Is he in a wheelchair FFS? SR out!