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He's been a big part of the club's upward momentum these last 5 years. Despite his injuries to pretend otherwise is futile. Life in football keeps moving though and there's a fair chance that we will have seen the best of O'Hare. Moving forward Rudoni might well prove to have the better career...

I think Jordan Willis wanted to do that when we were in League 1, where Luton were all lined up to sign him but then pulled out and left him in limbo. No other Championship clubs were interested so his agent asked us, but by then we had already signed McFadzean as his replacement, so he ended up...

With the squad as it is at present I cannot see Eccles not being in the starting XI. Not so sure Sakamoto is a nailed on starter either as much will depend how he looks in pre-season, and it might be that MR looks to ease him back slowly.

If its true that Dovin is done and dusted then that is sorted. As for the other positions I'm not sure its as obvious as you suggest. At RB for instance there seems little point targetting a rival for MVE, as he is a certain starter, and we have Burroughs, Eccles and Latibeaudiere already at...

Norwich offered him a new contract but he turned it down.

O'Hare was with us for 5 seasons, albeit one and a bit was spent injured. Plenty of other players have been considered legends over much shorter playing periods. He was also close to being first name on the team sheet in 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons and played an important part in our promotion...

He still needed to agree to any transfer though!

Boateng left us a quarter of a century ago so much of our support won't even have seen him play for us. I was gutted when he left, but I think we had the best of him, when he was pretty much an all action box to box midfielder. After joining Villa he turned into a 'sammy sideways' holding...

Not sure its proven either way at the moment. Last season we brought in Kitching and Torp after selling Hamer. I suspect if we had kept Hamer and not signed those two we would have been much more likely to have made the play offs. This upcoming season however we also have Mason-Clark and Rudoni...

.... and likely to be sold along with Summerville & Meslier. O'Hare is a logical replacement, and as a free transfer he will be particularly attractive to them given the mess they've got into with their finances.

I agree on the League Cup, but not the FA Cup. Quite happy for MR to use the game to give the squad a run out as per previous seasons.

When did Hamer publicly say he was signing a new contract? What you are taking as gospel was simply hearsay from some posters on here, or did you also believe that he was intent to returning to Holland, which was also touted around at the time? A lot of the posters who dig at Hamer on here are...

If it's Camara is he coming as a back up or replacement for MVE? Don't see why he would join us to sit on the bench!

To be fair part of the reason he didn't play so much after he joined Real Madrid was that they already had Roberto Carlos playing for them!

He wasn't just half decent, he was our outstanding player in League 1. He also played pretty well against us last season, so on his day is Championship level. That said his injury record is scary so I would be very surprised if we were interested in him now, unless his salary was largely...

He certainly seems to play well against us, but past history tells us that is not always a positive indicator in making a good signing.

Although the rules don't say so, selling your tickets on is quite clearly different to lending them out for free.

On his early season form Maddison would have been in the squad, but can't really argue with those picked ahead of him, once Grealish was also omitted. Surprised also about Dunk, as I would have definitely gone with Quansah instead, even as a learning experience as a squad member for future big...

The lad is 18 years old, but already has a couple of years Championship experience behind him. Take a step back and try not to compare him to his brother and you will realise what an outstanding prospect he is. You and the Sunderland fans seem to be expecting him to be the finished article, but...

The lads dressed in the black gear made me laugh. Obviously taken from the Russians at Euro 16, but the difference being that they were like para military trained cage fighters, while those on display last night were weedy kids who would run a mile if ever they came face to face with those Russians.