afc sunderlidl 2013/14

who will be the £5 lobster out of this anarchic assortment of off-brand mystery

Modibo Diakité (Lazio)
Valentin Roberge (Marítimo)
Cabral (Basel)
Duncan Watmore (Altrincham)
David Moberg Karlsson (IFK Gothenburg)
Vito Mannone (Arsenal)
Jozy Altidore (AZ Alkmaar)
El-Hadji Ba (Le Havre)
Gino Peruzzi (Velez Sarsfield)
Emanuele Giaccherini (Juventus)
Charalampos Mavrias (Panathinaikos)
THUDD????

El-Hadji Ba

there's never enough meat in those lobsters anyway

obviously i'm exaggerating a touch with this whole angle but it was either this or 'jozy and the pussyclaats' so

xp ooh 'ark at 'er

ive only bought ever bought alcohol lidl before but the success rate has been fairly good

the fairly rank £6.99 'haut-medoc' will probably be mannone, the useful £5.99 rioja probably peruzzi, who got good notices in subduing neymar but idk if that signing has been completed

the portmanfaux phantom el-hadji ba is a transparent money laundering scam, wise up nilmar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DavidMobergKarlsson.jpg

giaccherini is undoubtedly the well-known superior goats cheese of this display

thudd is the egg liqueur zanily (and afterwards queasily) celebrated once a year, if that

the portmanfaux phantom el-hadji ba is a transparent money laundering scam, wise up nilmar

Di Canio originally wrote down 'Benny McYakubu' but the board rejected it as too conspicuous.

it's probably too far to call it trailblazing but it's certainly the most glaringly wholesale implementation of a serie a makeweight (well, udinese) transfer strategy there's ever been in britfoot

they should try and purchase 35% of carl jenkinson or something

one of the first gis results for EHB is a craggy looking senegalese fellow who seems to be a big fan of laamb wrestling, senegal's national sport, which is well worth a youtube sesh

Can this really be the best offer Giaccherini was going to receive this summer?

a few of this list get a run out here

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/68231/on-jozy-altidores-move-to-sunderland

er that just seems to be about altidore, of whom no one cares

OK him and Giaccherini whatevs

Di Canio has serious form in the bulk-buying - this appears to be the ledger for his first season at Swindon: http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/swindon-town/transfers/verein_352_2011_default_default_alle_a_default.html

(it seems to make more sense if you exclude loan signings)

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/quinn-warns-mcclean-to-concentrate-on-football-29414407.html

What's he been up to? I know he's tailed off, but other than the republican stuff wasn't aware of any particular misdemeanours.

http://cdn1.independent.ie/sport/soccer/article29414406.ece/ALTERNATES/h342/SPT_20130712_SSB_069_28236291_I1.JPG

those dead eyes, the smile of a man who has never known joy.

also wtf is his elbow doing, have independent.ie used ms paint to finish that picture?

A lifetime of jostling for space against big no.6es, the elbow photoshops itself in.

I wonder if independent.ie autofills the rest of its galleries, every picture of Tony Adams has his offside arm crayoned in and so forth

‘There is no chance for Gino Peruzzi to join us,’ said the Italian in Hong Kong this morning ahead of Sunderland’s opening Barclays Asia Trophy game against Tottenham on Wednesday.

‘We have to make sure about some situations but my club is not a club that can sign at the moment a player who is injured, even though it’s not a crucial injury.

‘Manchester city can buy a talented player with an injury and wait for him. I would like to have a player ready to join the rest of the group.’

Sky Sports sources understand Sunderland are close to signing Trabzonspor defender Ondrej Celustka on a season-long loan.

Celustka has emerged as a target for Sunderland boss Paolo Di Canio after the Premier League club pulled out of a deal for Gino Peruzzi after the Velez Sarsfield full-back failed a medical.

Former Czech Republic Under 21 international Celustka has spent the past two years in Turkey with Trabzonspor after joining from Slavia Prague.

Ondřej Čelůstka

http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Photo/competitions/Comp_Matches/01/67/93/66/1679366_w1.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/YT4c47t.jpg

Sunderland: Westwood, Celustka, Roberge, O'Shea, Colback, Giaccherini, Larsson, Cabral, Johnson, Sessegnon, Altidore. Subs: Wickham, Mandron, Moberg Karlsson, Diakite, Ba, Cuellar, Ji.

Mikael Mandron (born 11 October 1994) is a French born Scottish footballer who currently plays for Sunderland. He usually plays as forward.

http://d2ug8xivu70q10.cloudfront.net/~/media/Players%201213/U18s/Mikael%20Mandron.jpg?mw=480

In May 2013 Mandron was called up to the Scotland U20 squad for the first time, he qualifies for Scotland through an Aberdeen born grandparent.

ki from swansea on a season's loan

kinda interesting

are they your premiership team this year

nah they just seem a bit novel like

doubt i cba to watch them later

i'm kinda intrigued but more in the sense that each premiership team has a grim and arbitrary duty to slay the croydon upstarts

di canio is clueless, he'll be gone by january

― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Saturday, August 31, 2013 9:58 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seeing "poyet in"

http://i.imgur.com/fnFhbeU.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/bDBh6pV.jpg

baffling 3-4 defeat considering their masterful defence of a single goal against an admittedly stagnant city

do like seeing jozy turn terry for this goal

http://usatthebiglead.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/jozy-altidore-goal-vs-chelsea.gif

oops dead gif link

or perhaps not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Somewhat unsurprisingly, apart from Altidore and Giaccherini, none of the off-brand mysteries have appeared more than five times this season.

Sunderland AFC has announced that the club has parted company with director of football Roberto De Fanti. The club would like to place on record its thanks to Roberto and wishes him well for the future.

http://i.imgur.com/OsaiXU6.jpg

O’Shea is keen to see Bardsley stay on Wearside beyond the end of the season.

“Let’s be honest, Phil was inches away from leaving the club in the summer,” said O’Shea. “Fingers-crossed, we can keep hold of him because he’s the heart and soul of the place.

“Along with Jack (Colback) he’s been here the longest and you need that for a club to build. For instance, if Catts (Lee Cattermole) and Phil had left, Jack would have been the longest-serving player and then it would have been me, Seb (Larsson) and Wes (Brown), and that’s scary.”

why connor wickham will never not be a wasteman

makes andy carroll look positively effete

ah but when it comes to bigmanning it in from a set-piece andy's yer man

this match is some kind of dismal realness apocalypse, with poyet & some italianate culturetrons (incl. liam bridcutt) raging against the dying light

Louise Taylor
The Guardian, Tuesday 25 March 2014 22.00 GMT

"We need something to happen, and I need to find that season-changing moment. Between the Liverpool game and Monday against West Ham at home, I have to find something. It could be Connor Wickham because there is a big possibility he will start at Liverpool. Connor's going to get a great chance now."

Poyet thinks it might help if Wickham pretends to be a brand-new recruit. "I would like Connor to look at this as though we have just signed him for the first time," said the Sunderland manager. "He's a new player, nobody knows him, and he's a young English striker with incredible powers. He's coming to help us get away from relegation. If he has that impact, that will be fantastic. It will be the 'bang' we need."

it's all jozy's fault

soon as u read that u knew sunderland were fucked

got some residual respect for wickham though, unlike carroll he was fully formed welterweight at 17 and his close control is closer to that of a football player than carroll's is, he scored the champo equivalent of messi vs getafe back in his ipswich days

altidore is useless too but poyet has enough quality between johnson, ki, borini and the half-crocked fletcher that he should be doing slightly better than he is

the champo equivalent of messi vs getafe was surely paddy mccourt for barnsley against forest this season, shortly before waddling off exhausted (in the first half)

welterweight cruiserweight

wickham was mostly hopeless today, although on the very rare occasions he produced a good touch it seemed to set sunderland going (they eventually scored from one such touch)

‘People will ask why Giaccherini wasn’t even on the bench, an Italian international and I know, it hurts. And I need him. Maybe he doesn’t believe me, but I need him.

‘If Fletch is not available for next week then maybe we will need Giacchi there and then he needs to help us and I’m sure he will because he’s a great professional. He will be because he will probably think it was an opportunity lost for him, but we will need everybody.’

even by the standards of doomed epl buying sprees this lot have been fucking execrable

playing the abysmal alonso at left wing-back instead of giaccherini was truly unbidden savagery

afc sunderlondis 2014/15

On 23 October 2014, Réveillère joined Premier League side Sunderland on a deal until the end of the season.[6]

On 14 August 2014, Buckley transferred to Premier League club Sunderland for an undisclosed fee, believed to be £2.5 million, signing a three-year contract.[13]

On 28 May 2014, Jones joined Sunderland on a free transfer after he rejected a new contract at West Bromwich Albion.[16] He said "I'm really happy to be here and I'm looking forward to getting back for pre-season and kicking on, I've played at the Stadium of Light a number of times so I know what great backing the club has. I knew I was signing for a massive club with everything in place to kick on up the league and carry on moving forward".[17]

SAFC midfielder Lee Cattermole has just been announced as The North-East Football Writers Player of the Year for 2014.

Having tied the 21-year-old down until 2019, the Sunderland manager Gus Poyet said: “I’m delighted that Connor has committed his future to us for the next few years. After his contribution at the end of last year, he has continued to improve his football and become an important part of our team.

“He keeps learning, he is able to adapt to different positions up front and he is enjoying our philosophy of play so I’m really looking forward to keep working with him for the benefit of our club.

“I think it was very important to tie down a young English centre-forward as there are not many around; this shows clearly the way this football club wants to progress.”

the fka rokerite faithful seem to be very fond of the lad santiago vergini for a change

not sure if for ledgey or actual football reasons

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Sunderland Fan ‏@FulwellEnderFTM Dec 7
@WiseMenSayPod Rodwell should have scored on weds mind. Don't see what he offers that we couldn't get from Watmore/Mavrias if given chance

Durutti Degian ‏@durutti13 Dec 6
Poyet plays everyone but Mavrias. #bring_back_to_PAOFC #safc @paofc #LIVSUN