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[The Fish 10498]

Well, they signed that Patrick Roberts who looked so promising at Fulham, Man City spent £6.5m on him, then shuttled him off to Celtic, Girona, Norwich, Middlesbrough, Derby, Troyes then released for nowt to Sunderland. 

 

Real Jack Rodwell vibe about him. 

 

Their squad has a total market value of £16.4m (according to transfermarkt), which is second only to Shef Wed. And just under 4 times that of Plymouth Argyle who are 7pts and 2 places above them in the league. 

They're 6th in the third tier of English football, 6th favourite for promotion, and their owners have 6p to rub together.

[Monkeys Fist 41407]

35 minutes ago, The Fish said:

and their owners have 6p to rub together.

[essembeeofsunderland 811]

7 hours ago, Alex said:

Glad he did so well in his return to the club and it wasn’t just a desperate PR stunt that went tits up 

Off to ‘earn’ another final pay day ,probably at a London club.A successful PR stunt for Defoe.

[Craig 6594]

Apparently Spurs have offered to let him finish earning his coaching badges with them already.

[ewerk 29580]

Odds on him being the mackems manager for the opening game of next season?

Edited March 25, 2022 by ewerk

[Kevin Carr's Gloves 3723]

17 minutes ago, ewerk said:

Odds on him being the mackems manager for the opening game of next season?

He wouldn’t manage Sunderland, he knows what they’re like.

Edited March 25, 2022 by Kevin Carr's Gloves

[ewerk 29580]

Yeah but he also knows he could have his three year contract paid up after six months so...

[Monkeys Fist 41407]

36months x £30 + £0 win bonus isn’t worth dodging the hurled bottles of piss for. 

[Rayvin 5129]

You just know they'll be crying out for him when Neill is sacked in 3 or 4 months. "He gets the club marra, MLF after all" etc etc.

 

And if it did happen we'd get a re-run of January's nonsense.

 

Has Defoe at any point said anything about a deep affection for Sunderland? They're not mentioned whatsoever in his retirement letter. You'd think he was a born and raised mackem who played for them for about a decade the way they go on. 34 goals in 3 years. For any other club, it's around minimum expectation for a striker. For Sunderland, it's enough to make you a club legend.

[Tom 14002]

He didn’t even score this season  

 

He was supposed “fire them to promotion”. Instead their bizarre need to feel important has derailed their entire season 

[The Fish 10498]

Irony of that when they often accuse us of 'only wanting a big name'. They're chasing Defoe, Phillips, Keane, etc.

[Howay 12496]

 This knacker keeps posting his own tweets onto RTG, if this is what they’re choosing to get wound up about it’s going to be fucking rough for them.

Edited March 25, 2022 by Howay

[Alex 34193]

1 hour ago, Rayvin said:

You just know they'll be crying out for him when Neill is sacked in 3 or 4 months. "He gets the club marra, MLF after all" etc etc.

 

And if it did happen we'd get a re-run of January's nonsense.

 

Has Defoe at any point said anything about a deep affection for Sunderland? They're not mentioned whatsoever in his retirement letter. You'd think he was a born and raised mackem who played for them for about a decade the way they go on. 34 goals in 3 years. For any other club, it's around minimum expectation for a striker. For Sunderland, it's enough to make you a club legend.

He gets a lot of respect for the Bradley Lowery stuff (which he should from everyone, not just Sunderland fans). He did a decent job as a player for them when they were a struggling PL side and scored that excellent derby winner of course. He was past his best by then, which is the only reason he went there. Nowt against the fella but he was never that good anyway imo. In the scores goals but does nowt else mode. But I think the love is largely a one way thing, aye 

[Alex 34193]

7 minutes ago, Howay said:

 This knacker keeps posting his own tweets onto RTG, if this is what they’re choosing to get wound up about it’s going to be fucking rough for them.

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[The Fish 10498]

His entire online personality appears to be "I hate Newcastle United". It'd be fair to say that the overwhelming majority of his posts on RTG are restricted to their "NUFC Sportswashing" threads (all of which get so big they're closed and a new one is created immediately). 

 

 

[Howay 12496]

18 minutes ago, Alex said:

1 like  

 Going to go out on a limb here and guess that one like is himself. 

[Howay 12496]

16 minutes ago, The Fish said:

His entire online personality appears to be "I hate Newcastle United". It'd be fair to say that the overwhelming majority of his posts on RTG are restricted to their "NUFC Sportswashing" threads (all of which get so big they're closed and a new one is created immediately). 

 

 

Aye, I’m also going to assume his outrage about Saudi Arabia/sportswashing began when the Saudis first bid, died down, and then resurfaced in October 2021. 
 

If they want to use the horrors committed by Saudi Arabia as a stick to beat Newcastle fans with on occasion, so be it - it’s distasteful but I get it, but this indignation and constant high and mighty act some of them try and do is pathetic. As someone pointed out despite all their outrage and posts supporting Amnesty Internationals message when it came to NUFC ownership there was precisely zero uptick in the Amnesty Sunderland branch interaction/funding or otherwise. 

[The Fish 10498]

1 minute ago, Howay said:

Aye, I’m also going to assume his outrage about Saudi Arabia/sportswashing began when the Saudis first bid, died down, and then resurfaced in October 2021. 
 

If they want to use the horrors committed by Saudi Arabia as a stick to beat Newcastle fans with on occasion, so be it - it’s distasteful but I get it, but this indignation and constant high and mighty act some of them try and do is pathetic. As someone pointed out despite all their outrage and posts supporting Amnesty Internationals message when it came to NUFC ownership there was precisely zero uptick in the Amnesty Sunderland branch interaction/funding or otherwise. 

 

Weren't they also sponsored by Visit Rwanda or something like that? I forget the details, but I'd be curious to see if Exile1968 (I'm assuming the numbers are his IQ then his age?) was as strident in his opposition to sportswashing then? And that's not whataboutery, I'm not saying sportswashing is ok because it was accepted before, but it's rank hypocrisy to crusade against sportswashing when it's purely directed at your erstwhile rivals.

 

In having a look on there, I found the page on one of their many NUFC threads where the takeover is rumoured then confirmed within a couple of days. There's some maneuvering in those pages that would impress Senna.

[Howay 12496]

8 minutes ago, The Fish said:

 

Weren't they also sponsored by Visit Rwanda or something like that? I forget the details, but I'd be curious to see if Exile1968 (I'm assuming the numbers are his IQ then his age?) was as strident in his opposition to sportswashing then? And that's not whataboutery, I'm not saying sportswashing is ok because it was accepted before, but it's rank hypocrisy to crusade against sportswashing when it's purely directed at your erstwhile rivals.

 

In having a look on there, I found the page on one of their many NUFC threads where the takeover is rumoured then confirmed within a couple of days. There's some maneuvering in those pages that would impress Senna.

It was the really inherently moral and very charitable ‘invest in Africa’ shirt deal:

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2167000/amp/Oil-giant-Sunderlands-20m-shirt-deal.html
 

I think you’ll recall all of the mass protests on Wearside from the time when they entered into that deal? 
 

They’re fucking mental like, they even have a thread on there about Reyna’s son with many saying “he will play for the lads one day, he’s a MLF” . He’s more likely to play for us ffs, in fact I hope we do buy him just to watch that website crash. 

[spongebob toonpants 3879]

Today it is 3,869 days since Newcastle beat Sunderland.

 

That's not quite the own he thinks it is

[Howay 12496]

1 hour ago, Alex said:

He gets a lot of respect for the Bradley Lowery stuff (which he should from everyone, not just Sunderland fans). He did a decent job as a player for them when they were a struggling PL side and scored that excellent derby winner of course. He was past his best by then, which is the only reason he went there. Nowt against the fella but he was never that good anyway imo. In the scores goals but does nowt else mode. But I think the love is largely a one way thing, aye 

Aye, they’re absolutely desperate for a ‘name’ to play for them as someone else said iirc. That’s why they cling on to fairly standard/upper half players like Defoe, O’Shea, Malbranque, etc. They then weirdly act like there’s some reciprocal love like you mention, I think a lot of it is driven off players we had of a high standard like Solano, Lee etc that do care about NUFC. The bit they’re missing is that caring of NUFC is because it was their peak, they achieved great things and played in top quality, exciting sides, it’s not something inherent with NUFC like they try and ascribe to SAFC. 
 

They just simply never have relevant players that play for them. Any names they have are basically similar to when we got people like Kluivert, blokes who have achieved elsewhere looking for a pay day. 
 

I’m talking modern era, I’m sure some mackem if they saw this would prove me “wrong” by saying Aethelwulf who was the best player of his day (when the Vikings were sacking Lindisfarne) played on the far right side for them, and that King Aelle was a MLF, but honestly I don’t fucking care - they idolize Jermain Defoe ffs a one in 3/4 striker. 

Edited March 25, 2022 by Howay

[Gemmill 42881]

Dinnit forget SESS mayut. Better than Ben Arfa. 

[Toonpack 8761]

5 minutes ago, Howay said:

Aye, they’re absolutely desperate for a ‘name’ to play for them as someone else said iirc. That’s why they cling on to fairly standard/upper half players like Defoe, O’Shea, Malbranque, etc. They then weirdly act like there’s some reciprocal love like you mention, I think a lot of it is driven off players we had of a high standard like Solano, Lee etc that do care about NUFC. The bit they’re missing is that caring of NUFC is because it was their peak, they achieved great things and played in top quality, exciting sides, it’s not something inherent with NUFC like they try and ascribe to SAFC. 
 

They just simply never have relevant players that play for them. Any names they have are basically similar to when we got people like Kluivert, blokes who have achieved elsewhere looking for a pay day. 
 

I’m talking modern era, I’m sure some mackem if they saw this would prove me “wrong” by saying Aethelwulf son of Aethelread who was the best player of his day (when the Vikings were sacking Lindisfarne) played on the far right side for them, and that King Aelle was a MLF, but honestly I don’t fucking care - they idolize Jermain Defoe ffs a one in 3/4 striker. 

 

The mackems have worse sacking record than the vikings

[Howmanheyman 31828]

9 minutes ago, Toonpack said:

 

The mackems have worse sacking record than the vikings

The mackems were also great at raping and pillaging to be fair but fucking shite at Luton.

[Toonpack 8761]

43 minutes ago, Howmanheyman said:

The mackems were also great at raping and pillaging to be fair but fucking shite at Luton.

 

They're OK in winter weather but it all turns to shit when it starts to Thor. (sorry)

 

Norse, norse, medication time for Toonpack