The Summer Transfer Window

[Kilgore trout]

Few papers running with it but mainstandmoan did say he wants to stay at Sunderland and fight for his place. Which is fair enough. He might be told to move though.

Fingers crossed. Although the loon does have form for ersing is aboot.

[D31]

ive a feeling the media are behind the curve and MSM is the oracle here

[RedStarTorphins]

ive a feeling the media are behind the curve and MSM is the oracle here

I agree.
I don't think McGeouch will happen.
I think the midfielder we eventually sign will be a leftfield one that hasn't been mentioned previously.

[DJR1979]

A few folk looking at May, would you sell him or loan him? He must have a few years left on his deal. I think he's only scored 8 times in 2 seasons! Pretty poor return

[RedStarTorphins]

A few folk looking at May, would you sell him or loan him? He must have a few years left on his deal. I think he's only scored 8 times in 2 seasons! Pretty poor return

He's got 2 years left.
He'd be on around £3k per week?
That's over £300k of wages.
If St Mirren or St Johnstone paid him/offered him say £1500 per week. That's over £150k of wages of a shortfall
We'd likely have to agree to pay some of that shortfall to lose him permanently
Either that or we loan him out for 12 months.

[Don_Corleone]

He's got 2 years left.
He'd be on around £3k per week?
That's over £300k of wages.
If St Mirren or St Johnstone paid him/offered him say £1500 per week. That's over £150k of wages of a shortfall
We'd likely have to agree to pay some of that shortfall to lose him permanently
Either that or we loan him out for 12 months.

If we pass round a few collection buckets at the European game I'm sure we could get enough donations to get him to leave. As long as he's not anywhere near our team next season I don't care if it's loan or let go. I can't suffer another season of him. I suspect he'll go back to St Johnstone - they still consider him a hero there.

Edit - I should say, I've no ill feeling towards the guy, I actually feel sorry for him, his effort is not in question, but he's just not good enough anymore - that's the sad reality.

[afc1903mad]

He's got 2 years left.
He'd be on around £3k per week?
That's over £300k of wages.
If St Mirren or St Johnstone paid him/offered him say £1500 per week. That's over £150k of wages of a shortfall
We'd likely have to agree to pay some of that shortfall to lose him permanently
Either that or we loan him out for 12 months.

Loaning him out then would be much better.
If we are putting a figure towards him moving on, at least he would not be able to come back and haunt us in that time.

[Don_Corleone]

Loaning him out then would be much better.
If we are putting a figure towards him moving on, at least he would not be able to come back and haunt us in that time.

Loaning him out means he will come back to haunt our starting line up next season. Get rid of him permanently if we can. I reckon he'll be lucky to score another 10 goals in the top flight in the rest of his career.

[RedStarTorphins]

If we pass round a few collection buckets at the European game I'm sure we could get enough donations to get him to leave. As long as he's not anywhere near our team next season I don't care if it's loan or let go. I can't suffer another season of him. I suspect he'll go back to St Johnstone - they still consider him a hero there.

Edit - I should say, I've no ill feeling towards the guy, I actually feel sorry for him, his effort is not in question, but he's just not good enough anymore - that's the sad reality.

Agree with all of that.
I've nothing against him.
He tried as hard as he could and worked his nuts off.
He's just not the player he was, through no fault of his own.
Certainly not a player I'd hold any bad feeling towards, or give stick to if he comes back to play against us.

[afc1903mad]

Loaning him out means he will come back to haunt our starting line up next season. Get rid of him permanently if we can. I reckon he'll be lucky to score another 10 goals in the top flight in the rest of his career.

Loan him out for two years then.