| How the hell did Sunderland get Xhaka and for £17m?? 22:55 - Aug 16 with 781 views | MVBlue |
He did very well at Bayern Leverkusen and now stepped into captain Sunderland for £17million?
Is that not a bloody steal he helped Bayern win the Bundesleague. And with Omari at £37million??
My God how is that possible compared with what we shopped around for
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| How the hell did Sunderland get Xhaka and for £17m?? on 22:57 - Aug 16 with 726 views | Zx1988 |
Probably a mixture of Sunderland's profile, and their ability to call Bayer Leverkusen by the correct name. |  |
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| How the hell did Sunderland get Xhaka and for £17m?? on 22:58 - Aug 16 with 712 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
Keep up. |  |
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| How the hell did Sunderland get Xhaka and for £17m?? on 22:58 - Aug 16 with 714 views | Chris_ITFC |
He's 32 and has very little resale value.
Omari a pretty bad example to choose, given our transfer strategy has just made us a stack of money on him, but if you want to be negative about what we 'shopped around' for... |  |
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| How the hell did Sunderland get Xhaka and for £17m?? on 23:03 - Aug 16 with 648 views | Bellevue_Blue |
Age & re-sale value.
Leverkusen signed him for 21M, got a great player for two years, sold for 17M.
If Sunderland get relegated, he's 33 and probably worth half that. | | | |
| How the hell did Sunderland get Xhaka and for £17m?? on 23:06 - Aug 16 with 610 views | TractorWood |
Don't they know they could have their pick of championship standard wingers for that kind of money! |  |
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| How the hell did Sunderland get Xhaka and for £17m?? on 23:07 - Aug 16 with 603 views | MVBlue |
| How the hell did Sunderland get Xhaka and for £17m?? on 22:58 - Aug 16 by Chris_ITFC |
He's 32 and has very little resale value.
Omari a pretty bad example to choose, given our transfer strategy has just made us a stack of money on him, but if you want to be negative about what we 'shopped around' for... |
OK well 32 that explains some of it. And comparing 32 with 21 does that mean £17m for an older league winner and Premiership player with a U21 future potential not there yet.. I mean we let our talented 33 year old Morsy leave. Xhaka still did a lot for Bayer in the German league and Champions league..
Just stares out as a good first year signing for them and we are light in central midfield now.
I mean they were in League One a few years ago too... | |
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| He's 33 next month. (n/t) on 23:18 - Aug 16 with 503 views | MVBlue |
Ashley Young. | |
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| How the hell did Sunderland get Xhaka and for £17m?? on 23:18 - Aug 16 with 495 views | Churchman |
| How the hell did Sunderland get Xhaka and for £17m?? on 22:58 - Aug 16 by Chris_ITFC |
He's 32 and has very little resale value.
Omari a pretty bad example to choose, given our transfer strategy has just made us a stack of money on him, but if you want to be negative about what we 'shopped around' for... |
No point, Chris.
The DOBs (Dormant Organ Brigade) are in full war cry. Bedsheets on the line, you name it. Because we weren’t playing, another club’s good result will do. Let’s focus on them. Burnley taken to the cleaners by a team we beat at their place? Doesn’t fit the narrative.
Focus on Sunderland and a 32 year old who has had a good game but has no residual value. ‘But if he keeps them in the Premier League’ the Tena boys will cry. Good point, but what if he doesn’t? What if he gets injured? There are different ways to go about it. They may succeed where we failed.
We gave it a go and the outcome was poor but the strategy at the time made sense. And instead of doing a Norwich, we really tried. But that cuts no ice, obviously. Not when you can keep picking over who was to blame.
This forum will be well worth avoiding if we fail to murder Southampton with a sparkling display of total football. I get the sense some cannot wait for us to fail so they can pile in with I told you so’s etc. I guess that won’t end until the owners are gone, Ashton is out and McKenna is furthering his career elsewhere.
The abuse during Evans’ time was never this vitriolic so that must be the case. Sad. 2025 ITFC I guess. Assuming I can get to the game tomorrow, it’ll be interesting to gauge the mood in the ground by those who attend. [Post edited 16 Aug 23:20]
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| He's 33 next month. (n/t) on 23:19 - Aug 16 with 482 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| He's 33 next month. (n/t) on 23:18 - Aug 16 by MVBlue |
Ashley Young. |
And Ashley Young cost how much?
You asked how they got Xhaka for £17m. Its cos he's 33 next month. |  |
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| How the hell did Sunderland get Xhaka and for £17m?? on 23:27 - Aug 16 with 431 views | positivity |
| How the hell did Sunderland get Xhaka and for £17m?? on 22:58 - Aug 16 by Chris_ITFC |
He's 32 and has very little resale value.
Omari a pretty bad example to choose, given our transfer strategy has just made us a stack of money on him, but if you want to be negative about what we 'shopped around' for... |
agreed. also worth noting xhaka's wage, far above anything we paid out last year. | |
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| How the hell did Sunderland get Xhaka and for £17m?? on 23:41 - Aug 16 with 361 views | MVBlue |
| How the hell did Sunderland get Xhaka and for £17m?? on 23:18 - Aug 16 by Churchman |
No point, Chris.
The DOBs (Dormant Organ Brigade) are in full war cry. Bedsheets on the line, you name it. Because we weren’t playing, another club’s good result will do. Let’s focus on them. Burnley taken to the cleaners by a team we beat at their place? Doesn’t fit the narrative.
Focus on Sunderland and a 32 year old who has had a good game but has no residual value. ‘But if he keeps them in the Premier League’ the Tena boys will cry. Good point, but what if he doesn’t? What if he gets injured? There are different ways to go about it. They may succeed where we failed.
We gave it a go and the outcome was poor but the strategy at the time made sense. And instead of doing a Norwich, we really tried. But that cuts no ice, obviously. Not when you can keep picking over who was to blame.
This forum will be well worth avoiding if we fail to murder Southampton with a sparkling display of total football. I get the sense some cannot wait for us to fail so they can pile in with I told you so’s etc. I guess that won’t end until the owners are gone, Ashton is out and McKenna is furthering his career elsewhere.
The abuse during Evans’ time was never this vitriolic so that must be the case. Sad. 2025 ITFC I guess. Assuming I can get to the game tomorrow, it’ll be interesting to gauge the mood in the ground by those who attend. [Post edited 16 Aug 23:20]
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There will be no abuse from me if we get beat by Southampton. Just noting a stand out different strategy of player recruitment. Likely comes from us being too far ahead of out process, so recruitment wasn't ideal and we couldn't bring in new midfield generals. | |
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