Sunderland for free

[oldcolner]

Ellis Short can’t sell the club and is now willing to give it away for free, provided they take on the clubs £137m debt. Last year he was looking for £170m when it was in the PL.
How the mighty have fallen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43157628

[In Dyche We Trust]

Tbh - they have never been mighty-

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I went with my dad to Roker Park in the sixties. Trust me IDWT, the "Roker Roar" was unlike anything I have ever witnessed.

I have a real soft spot for the good folks of Sunderland and they deserve better than Ellis Short as their Chairman.

I greatly appreciate our own Board of Directors and Chairman who have only the best interests of Burnley Football Club in their hearts and are not the self serving, loathsome individuals who are rampant in the higher echelons of League football these days.

Cue Altobelli!

[In Dyche We Trust]

I went with my dad to Roker Park in the sixties. Trust me IDWT, the "Roker Roar" was unlike anything I have ever witnessed.

I have a real soft spot for the good folks of Sunderland and they deserve better than Ellis Short as their Chairman.

I greatly appreciate our own Board of Directors and Chairman who have only the best interests of Burnley Football Club in their hearts and are not the self serving, loathsome individuals who are rampant in the higher echelons of League football these days.

Cue Altobelli!

I have been there too TBT and agree with you but I was talking about the club and their achievements , particularly in recent years. Won the FA Cup against the Weeds in 73 but thats about it.....

[oldcolner]

Stadium of Plight says Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/football...-chris-coleman

Chris Coleman has never met or spoken to the owner. You can’t Mackem up.

Martin Bain, the chief executive, is taking considerable flak as he wrestles with the £35m annual wage bill that is swallowing much of this season’s £47m parachute payment. The club owes £110m

Accordingly Grayson was allowed to spend only £1.25m on 10 players last summer and, contrary to expectation, Coleman was merely permitted four loan signings – Chelsea’s Jake Clarke-Salter, Liverpool’s Ovie Ejaria, Middlesbrough’s Ashley Fletcher and Lee Camp of Cardiff – in January. So far that quartet have all struggled in a squad containing seven loanees.

To add to the dysfunctional atmosphere, the £70,000-a-week erstwhile England midfielder Jack Rodwell is not in Coleman’s plans while L’Equipe reports that Sunderland are sending a collective £30,000 a week to France to subsidise the wages of Wahbi Khazri and Papy Djilobodji, the winger and defender they have loaned to Rennes and Dijon respectively.

Saturday they play Hull who are also in danger of a double drop.

[champs95]

Something like this would never happen at a well run club like ours .........

[redhugh]

I went with my dad to Roker Park in the sixties. Trust me IDWT, the "Roker Roar" was unlike anything I have ever witnessed.

I have a real soft spot for the good folks of Sunderland and they deserve better than Ellis Short as their Chairman.

I greatly appreciate our own Board of Directors and Chairman who have only the best interests of Burnley Football Club in their hearts and are not the self serving, loathsome individuals who are rampant in the higher echelons of League football these days.

Cue Altobelli!

To be fair Ellis Short put plenty of money into the club but put his trust in the wrong people and we are now paying the price.

[redhugh]

I went with my dad to Roker Park in the sixties. Trust me IDWT, the "Roker Roar" was unlike anything I have ever witnessed.

I have a real soft spot for the good folks of Sunderland and they deserve better than Ellis Short as their Chairman.

I greatly appreciate our own Board of Directors and Chairman who have only the best interests of Burnley Football Club in their hearts and are not the self serving, loathsome individuals who are rampant in the higher echelons of League football these days.

Cue Altobelli!

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A lot of miners moved up to Northumberland from the Durham to work and still follow Sunderland.

[alfinyalcabo]

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A lot of miners moved up to Northumberland from the Durham to work and still follow Sunderland.

Welcome to the board Redhugh,do you still go on and watch them?

[redhugh]

Welcome to the board Redhugh,do you still go on and watch them?

Yes Alf, worst team ever and I've watched some rubbish we have nowt ...we will finish bottom and will struggle in league 1 with this lot.