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LETS GET CARRIED (A)

[Brandon 🔴⚪ @Brandonredhead]

@CRVisuals_ Ta Bi the understudy

[Ronaldinho @10Ronaldinho]

Thank you, Sunderland!!! Great game in England last monday, a country that has always welcomed me so well! Great atmosphere, beautiful stadium and lots of friends on the field!!!! Moments like this show us why football is so special... see you soon mates 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🤙🏾

[Brandon 🔴⚪ @Brandonredhead]

@CRVisuals_ I definitely think he needs a good loan very promising and could be a mistake letting him go now

[Brandon 🔴⚪ @Brandonredhead]

Just seen this on TikTok haha could see it catching on

[Brandon 🔴⚪ @Brandonredhead]

@BrownSlices Mayenda will be a sore one too

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Sunderland’s starting XI in their joyous, season-ending 2-1 victory over listless Chelsea cost the same as £106m Enzo Fernandez. This is no slight on a world champion, an elite attacking midfielder, full of craft and craftiness, if moody at times. This is simply a celebration of Sunderland’s exceptional recruitment, finding gems who can see - and seize - the opportunity at the Stadium of Light.

This is also a celebration of Regis Le Bris’ remarkable team-building, blending and bonding qualities which have guided a side promoted via the play-offs into seventh and Europe. For those of us who thought Sunderland would go straight back down, apologies and enjoy Europe. You deserve it. A well-run football operation deserves it. That backing from stands to boardroom deserves it. Football also deserves it: a reminder that the status quo can be challenged with shrewd planning and investment and hard work.

Of Le Bris’ starting XI against Chelsea, eight joined on the eve of the season and one in the winter window: Roefs a reported £9m from Nijmegen; Mukiele £9.5m from PS-G; Reinaldo free from Atletico Madrid; Geertruida loan from RB Leipzig; Le Fee £19.3m, loan made permanent from Roma; Xhaka £13m from Bayer Leverkusen; Sadiki £15m from Union St-Gilloise; Angulo £17.5m from Anderlecht (in February); and seven-goal Brobbey £21.6m from Ajax. Two 2025 arrivals came off the bench: Diarra £30m from Strasbourg; and Isidor £5m loan made permanent from Zenit St-Petersburg (in February 2025).

Three of the 14 involved were already at the club. The starting pair of: Hume £200,000 from Linfield in 2022; and O’Nien undisclosed but reported as £200,000 to £300,000 from Wycombe Wanderers in 2018. And the sub: Rigg from Sunderland’s academy. (The £105.5m total does not include the undisclosed loan fees).

When Sunderland won 2-1 at the Bridge in October, Le Bris’ starting XI cost only £75m (and also had the important Ballard, £2m from Arsenal in 2022). Chelsea’s starting XI was £433m.

Four miles from the Bridge, on Park Lane this evening, the League Managers Association celebrates its members’ many achievements this season. Le Bris certainly deserves a mention. Mixing old and many new players, and getting new signings to settle quickly, requires real people skills. Le Bris and his staff clearly have them.

It’s also a reflection on Sunderland’s family club reputation that so many newcomers are welcomed and assimilated so quickly. Some will move on, some will be moved on but what a journey this is across England - and soon Europe. #SAFC

[Brandon 🔴⚪ @Brandonredhead]

Get on the blower FG

#SAFC

[FC Barcelona @FCBarcelona]

We’re not sad because it ended, we’re happy because it happened.

#LaLigaHighlights

[Brandon 🔴⚪ @Brandonredhead]

@madblackcatlady @DavidGoodings1 @RejectedBook It was sarcasm, pundits and mags will be spouting this nonsense all pre season

[Brandon 🔴⚪ @Brandonredhead]

That woltemade goal was rather hilarious tbf

[pdb @nufcpb]

I don’t want Sunderland to ever do well in fact I want them to crash and burn as a football club but they are so shit if they come up it’s a banker 6 points and 2 hilarious days right there

[Brandon 🔴⚪ @Brandonredhead]

@hugoagogo_ @OrwiteTreacle @DeludedOf Biggest the gulf has ever been?

[Brandon 🔴⚪ @Brandonredhead]

@JBrownie_99 Geertuida signing, this angle confirms it!

[Brandon 🔴⚪ @Brandonredhead]

@MuckingFinging Happy days

[Brandon 🔴⚪ @Brandonredhead]

Anyone got a video of that Angulo rocket that the keeper saved? #SAFC

[Brandon 🔴⚪ @Brandonredhead]

Imagine getting mugged off by Liverpool taking your best striker then buying your backup just to take the piss so you resort to signing this absolute bean pile just for him to score and OG in the derby and hand your rivals European football 😂

[vinny🇪🇺 @vinny_brand2]

we need to give a special shoutout to this man because without his goal in the derby, we wouldn’t have got europe #safc

[Brandon 🔴⚪ @Brandonredhead]

@Caltermole @BrownSlices Sometimes the humble pie tastes delicious

[Brandon 🔴⚪ @Brandonredhead]

@DavidGoodings1 @RejectedBook 😂 fuck off man ya can’t be that thick

[Brandon 🔴⚪ @Brandonredhead]

@JamesCopley_ @1973mackem That’s Dr Le Bris to you 😉

[Brandon 🔴⚪ @Brandonredhead]

@DylanElstob1 @TheToonminator0 Any update on this toonminator?

[Brandon 🔴⚪ @Brandonredhead]

@RejectedBook Don’t forget about the PSR restrictions now, we’re well and truly fucked 😨

[Brandon 🔴⚪ @Brandonredhead]

@Safcmbell It used to be decent 😕