@MobyChe@CFCAnalytic Has Maresca not confirmed the same turn of events ?
Or do you mean that the lack of signing another Cb after Colwills injury was “our side” of being culpable for his leaving halfway through the season?
125,000 years ago, the Thames was full of hippos.
2,000 years ago, the Romans grew grapes on the Scottish border.
Today, British councils force people to rip out their aircon because of "unprecedented climate change".
https://t.co/DhOjKIDFxN
I've been hurt by Sunderland players leaving before...
Darren Bent to Aston Villa, Patrick Van Aanholt to Crystal Palace, Stéphane Sessègnon to West Brom, even Josh Maja to Bordeaux...
I could always handle players like Henderson, Mignolet, Jobe taking huge, deserved leaps, Pickford the same after we were relegated... but I've never liked players making sideways steps.
Nothing though, will be able to prepare me for seeing Granit Xhaka in a Chelsea shirt... I can't begin to fathom it.
Chelsea are a bigger club, with a better chance of silverware over the next few seasons... but they've finished 10th or below twice in the last 4 years, finished 3 places below Sunderland in 25/26, losing to us home and away, and feel like a long way off their peak.
Xhaka would throw away EVERYTHING he's said about Sunderland, the fans, the community... to move back to London, work with a manager he's already worked with and represent one of Arsenal's biggest rivals?
I'm always reluctant to use words like betrayal... football is a business, players have to make decisions that they think is best for them...
But for me it would be one of the most soulless moves of the summer.
@StephenO62223 Discrediting what we’ve won in the leanest time we’ve had in the last 20 years is all good and well.
But we’re in finals every year and won something more often than not.
Can the same be said for Sunderland?
Absolutely not.
@StephenO62223 Why don’t you think about the stature of the two clubs he’s moving between and the chances of him perhaps winning another trophy in the last 2/3 years of his career
🚨🇬🇧 New Record UK Temperature set
Just one problem.
They took the temperature from one of the world’s busiest airports, where thousands of planes land and takeoff each day, on the busy diesel stained scorching hot asphalt.
They think you’re stupid
🚨NEWS: The UK Government's new law for gender transition has revealed it may criminalise parents who try to stop their child transitioning with a sentence of up to 5 years
🚨 José Mourinho to Beast Mode On: “I once had a player who didn’t want to take a small injection to play a match”.
“I took off my shoe and socks and I put my foot right in front of his face and I told the doctor: ‘GIVE ME THE INJECTION’. And he gave it to me and my toe was perfect”.
“Then I told the player, ‘C’mon you can also do it.’ He said: ‘No, you are crazy’… well”.
“He played NO matches with me after this”.