Transfers needed in January

Well after tonights performance I think I'm not far away with my predictions of what we need in this window. Seems to be all departments apart from goalkeeper. Second point for the night is that once again we are caught out buying crocks, to name a few Brown, Kaboul and Rodwell. When will we learn. No matter how good a player is he is totally non effective for us if we cannot keep him on the pitch.

 

Yet Robert Huth is performing heroics at Leicester, its all about selection and a bit of good fortune.

 

Dont remember him being particularly injury prone? Would have loved him at sunderland like

 

Your right, my point badly put, is really about player selection, and any team that buys expensive has beens and failures on the scale that we have is going to struggle.

 

And here we are doing it as we speak. 14m for a player that can't even make the Tottenham bench, only Sunderland

 

Stoke City transfer gossip: Sunderland eye up January bid for Marc Wilson
By PeteSmith | Posted: December 30, 2015

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SUNDERLAND are ready to offer Marc Wilson a chance of regular football to boost his claim for a Euro 2016 place with Ireland, report the Daily Mail.

Wilson has been a near fixture in Stoke's starting line-up since half-way through his first season with the club he joined from Portsmouth in 2010.

But the versatile 28-year-old has been left on the sidelines for much of this season while Marc Muniesa and Geoff Cameron, then Ryan Shawcross and Philipp Wollscheid have filled the positions at centre-half.

Mark Hughes is unlikely to want to lose a player who can offer cover in four positions, a popular member of the changing room – and a fella with the guts to smash home a penalty in the Capital One Cup shoot-out win over Chelsea.

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clockstander said:
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Your right, my point badly put, is really about player selection, and any team that buys expensive has beens and failures on the scale that we have is going to struggle.

John Mensah is available - ha ha. He will be cheap.

 

Christ what a footballer he was!! Imagine had he been half way fit !

 

Good move and snap up McClean from W Brom,both cheap and game time for France.

 

He is all you talk about on this board, how boring

 

Apparently the children at Alder Hey hospital visited them at Christmas

 

Aye,I don't actually.I come on to voice my opinion and have voiced my opinion on John O'Shea,MON,Keane,Quinn etc

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Poor response,you must feel embarrassed now

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Ehh dick

 

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