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Sounds like 3 days ago it was obvious he was off: https://www.instagram.com/p/CfcjowqsmdX/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

What if SR knew when buying us the team needed an overhaul and given the price they paid they factored in say £50M to kick start their approach to how they wanted the club to operate?

I listened to a podcast recently and one of the questions raised was about why often “concept kits” are better than the actual kits. Basically the reason is concept kits to actually make would be a lot more expensive than the actual kits, due to patterns and designs. To keep the same profit margins they would have to make them more expensive to the supporters to buy.

Also would never happen as the sponsor would change in that time. So once that changes you wouldn’t have the latest kit.

Once Phillips move to City is complete I think Lavia deal will be completed too.

Even our coaches are now youngsters lol

Looks to not be with the city team yet, doing some form of training though (in city gear) https://instagram.com/stories/lavizzy6/2872067980694385330?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Seems County fans aren’t fussed about Clapham leaving (read comments)

Returned Mateusz Lis,Gavin Bazunu, Alex McCarthy, Willy Caballero, Armel Bella-Kotchap, Dynel Simeu, Lyanco, Jack Stephens, Kyle Walker-Peters, Oriol Romeu, Ibrahima Diallo, Nathan Tella, Kamari Doyle, Dominic Ballard. Internationals (returning later) Jan Bednarek, James Ward-Prowse, Stuart Armstrong, Moussa Djenepo, Will Smallbone, Moi Elyounoussi, Che Adams. Injured Romain Perraud, Tino Livramento. Not Returned Mohammed Salisu, Yan Valery, Nathan Redmond, Adam Armstrong, Theo Walcott. The not returned group all look to be people we are hoping to move on - apart from Salisu, he was used in the shirt launch so imagine one we want to keep but wonder why he wasn’t back yesterday?

It’s all about budgets again though isn’t it. Chelsea, City, now Newcastle etc all owned by very wealthy people who invest alot more right down the chain. So they can go and hoover up the talent at 15/16 by offering bigger fees and salaries. if we put more into this level of the club it would be at the expense of I imagine the first team.

Redmond doesn’t seem to be in the country?! Wonder why he has been given longer? https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfZsR-MILdJ/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Surely we will have our coaches in place before the squad return, otherwise who’s doing the coaching?

Anyone know when players start to report back for pre season? assume the internationals will have a longer break too? You would assume the coaching set up will be finalised before they report back too?

I think today has shown how deals can be kept quiet if they want to.

So do we make any money from Mane sale initially? Potentially in the future if add ons are hit or not at all?

Be interested to know how we will improve our cashflow? Better structuring of transfer funds maybe, but not sure what else will improve it since buying before selling won’t

Is one season in PL mean proven? Been plenty of one season wonders. (Not saying he is, but not sure he PL proven after one season?)

Plus much higher wages and no doubt signing on fee too.

Pointless discussion cos he won’t be coming to us, it’s a big club or Brentford.

It’s 100% true as Luke Cole’s posted it himself on LinkedIn 3 days ago, which is probably where Turkish saw it since he posted the news on here 3 days ago too.

Luke Coles, who was Lead Opposition Analyst & Technical Recruitment at Sunderland has just left his role to take up a new role with us. Not a coaching appointment but maybe one of the recruitment side.

So why say we are in talks then?! What benefit is there for us saying we are if we aren’t?!?

The press release from saints just says we are in talks with Long. Doesn’t say what about, could be about a coaching roll with the younger age groups. Just seems odd they didn’t mention in talks about a new contract. Sometimes it’s what isn’t said rather than what is..

Re Dennis - so agent says he’s on our long list of forwards. Fans want us to sign him, when he doesn’t then fans up in rage that board lost out to X for him. its just agent talk to drive up interest in his player!

Just because we don’t sign someone doesn’t mean we weren’t interested in them. Maybe they choose another club over our offer (Maddison for example) maybe they want to stay close to where they live now and don’t want to relocate their family. You lose players to other clubs. Some players we aren’t interested in. Let’s just see what squad we have when the window closes hey…