Asamoah Gyan

Sky 'Sources' saying he's having a medical at Reading.

Good ****ing riddance.

 

Given it thought since then and I'm firmly in the no camp now. I love the bloke as a footballer. But it's a matter of self respect and club dignity. Again, he'd get me support. Hopefully we've got a decent alternative lined up.

 

Absolutely the ability, the unpredictability, we could use.

He's ****ing pond life though we'd be mugging ourselves right off.

 

And we've already done that enough to last me a lifetime.

 

get him now catch the pidgeon now,who would not attend because of it ,the whole game is screwed anyhow

 

Hello Stewart

 

Wart Stew

 

Don't know how you saw insult my koi carp

 

get him signed ,pay as you play,yesterday has gone tommorow is coming,do not forget we did not do too bad out of that deal ,it suited both player and club didnt it at the time,more upset about colback tbh

 

You mean Colback who can't even get a game for a Championship club?

Aye, I'm gutted about that one as well.

 

We broke even.

 

different opinions and points of view,keeps us spinning

 

You keep on spinning buddy

 

Naturally, we're all allowed to have an opinion and voice it.

We're also all allowed to disagree with someone else's opinion.

 

I said my piece early on and haven’t said anything since because I knew it was a waste of time. But now, I’d just like to lay out the facts as I remember tham.

In March, Gyan told the Ghanaian press “It’s a bit disorganized, and I’m not too happy there.” Towards the end of the season, he apparently spoke to someone high up in SAFC (probably Quinn) about it. On the Tuesday, Al Ain wanted to buy Gyan. But Gyan didn’t want to go, and Sunderland didn’t want to lose him. So we turned the offer down flat. But that Friday night, Al Ain came back, offering a world record £6.5 million for a one-year loan. It suited the club and Gyan well, not only financially, but a year’s absence would allow time to sort out whatever the problem was. SAFC and Gyan agreed, and the loan went through.

Later that year, Steve Bruce was sacked, and Martin O’Neill took over. Gyan wrote on Facebook that he was looking forward to working with O’Neill, and in January, O’Neill tried to get him back. It wasn’t possible, because Al Ain had paid well for the one-year loan contract. And that’s when the amicable agreement turned sour. Sometime in March, CEO, Margaret Byrne, said “From what we hear, Gyan doesn’t want to come back.” Towards the end of the season, Gyan said “My agent tells me Sunderland don’t want me back.” Now put those two statements together, and it sounds very much like somebody in the middle is playing both ends. It also suggests that neither O’Neill nor Byrne ever once bothered to pick up the phone and speak directly to their own player! (Which begs the question of whether they ever bothered to speak directly to Christian Riveros either, who was also out on loan at that time).

In the end, Al Ain added another £6.5 million and tried again to buy the player. All parties agreed this time, and the sale went through.

Make what you will of it. But I don’t believe a word of the usual ‘greedy b*stard’ bit. That’s just the usual Sunderland supporters’ notorious spite. There is not one jot of evidence for that. That summer (2012) Sunderland lost two of the 2010 World Cup star acts (Gyan and Riveros) and I suspect that O’Neill and Byrne have a lot more to do with it than is ever mentioned.

 

Yeah, and he was chasing that star against the US. Knocked us out in extra time, he did.

 

Whoops! Sorry mate. It wasn't intended.

 

too true bud,not the best player in the world but steady none the less,it was in terms of the clubs investment in bringing him through the system then to leave for nothing ,much the same as doing an apprenticeship coming out with your City and guilds after four years then leaving the firm which invested in you ,was more my angle .

 

He can dance..Elsefuckingwhere.