Quote Originally Posted by Carpe_diem View Post
My 'industrial language' wasn't aimed at you specifically, Chips. Just frustrates me that despite McCabe saying a long time ago that we'd learnt our lesson with loans, we're still bringing in other teams' youngsters to develop them. What benefits has having James Wilson at the club offered us? Nothing, but it's helped his development, working with a decently-sized club and being part of the squad.

As long as we accept our place in the pecking order as being somewhere that bigger clubs can send their development players whether it's beneficial for us or not, we'll never break free of those constraints. We need to start saying no and putting the money, time and effort into bringing through players we can build teams around, or at the very least sell at a good profit so we can re-invest in more players who'll continually improve our squad.
OK Carpe, I understand now but who is to provide the money? I do not want us to sell our souls to the devil and even as an OAP I
caution patience. Sunderland seem to have had a miracle in that the owner has cleared the debts similar to Mr McCabe did for us (even if at a higher monetary value) but the wages will be a killer for the new lot there unless they have billions.