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I just can’t fathom how Sunderland have managed to do that. They didn’t sign a bottom half Championship defender for £3m or a 37 year old cripple who’s ’great in the dressing room’, how can they possibly succeed?!

Spurs are really going to have to go all out to lose this 4-3.

Win - win for both of them really. Putin gets to look like he has forced the west, and the US in particular, to the negotiating table with his 'military operation'. Trump gets to tell his gimp supporters that he's a master negotiator and will be the one to smooth over a peace deal in Ukraine. Of course none of that has any basis in reality but if enough of their supporters believe it, they wont care.

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Which tree do you think Downes, THB, Quarshie, Stewart and the rest of one of the best squads in the Championship grew on? We clearly didn’t get recruitment right in the PL but there’s no doubt we’re spending money trying to improve the first team. Parkinson my have been hypocritical in pointing out that we brought £30m of talent off the bench but he’s not wrong.

He’s not going to be signing a contract with us on the off chance he gets a career ending injury aged 19. He will be no different to any of the many, many other players who’ve done the same thing.

He'll be able to leave next summer to any number of clubs for about £15-20m, which means his agent can demand a sizeable signing on fee and shop around for whoever offers him the best deal.

Not a chance.

You can't just forget money from a year ago because you want to spend more. It doesn't work like that. Nobody is celebrating selling players. If we did stop making a profit on the likes of Lavia, that wouldn't stop us from signing substandard players. We've been relegated twice because we've recruited poorly and the odds are now heavily stacked against us with regards to finances and PSR. The majority of the ground work was done by the Gao takeover and his complete lack of investment.

Players very, very rarely stick around at clubs which are beneath their level. It's neither recent nor exclusive to Saints. You can complain about selling MF if you like but we only bought him in the first place because we sold Lavia and Livramento.

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Not a happy return for Dutchy.

Maybe if they sell him Juve will finally activate that €50m release clause we’ve got for Alcaraz.

I’m not convinced by that midfield combo of Fred Dibnah and Scatman Crothers.

TBF, they do need to start cutting costs. The recent VPN laws have seriously affected their owners' income.

There's clearly absolutely no sense in playing Dibling until the transfer issue is resolved. Not only do we not want him injured, he really wont want to get injured. He wont be busting a gut risking muscle injuries and forget 50:50s, he wont be going in for any 90:10 challenges. If he's still here when the window closes it's a different matter but he wont be playing against Ipswich or Stoke.

He'll go when Everton offer an amount that we consider acceptable.

Why? Far better than a trip to Brighton, Bournemouth or West Ham.

Couple of all PL draws in that, also a couple of PL teams against strong Championship sides, which is always good for progression chances. I’m indifferent to our draw.

I don’t think it was anything to do with that incident at all. His confidence was blown by being signed to play in a league in which he was hopelessly out of his depth. I know he once scored six goals for the Blades but he is clearly not a PL player. Playing in an awful team which was losing every week just compounded things. Theres a decent Championship player in there, clearly. Perhaps a loan would do him some good.

To my grave I will swear Pelle scored a hattrick in the 8-0. Bridcutt o.g. my arse.

True that, fair point. I'll always maintain that ANY cup win will do, just get into the next round, that's all that counts. Even our run to Cardiff in 2003 included a stoppage time equaliser in a dreadful home performance against Millwall.

At the risk of being anal, last season we made it as far as a QF at Anfield. However, as you say, any win is clearly an improvement on the Gills game, or even that dreadful Grimsby game in the FA Cup the year before.

It's not that odd really. My GF frequently tells me she's not sure whether it's gone in or not.