Premier League fixtures 8/8/15

[safcftm]

Same old, same old, spend weeks wanting the season to start then after half an hour you want it to fuck off again!

[Rosie_titters]

Same old, same old, spend weeks wanting the season to start then after half an hour you want it to fuck off again!

What keeps going wrong at Sunderland SAFCFTM?. On paper you haven't got a bad first 11 and i think your club should be on a par with Stoke, WBA, Palace and Swansea. But they seem to be shite every season and always look destine to be relegated.

Why?, I thought Adovcaat could of been the saviour

[mcdowell42]

Same old, same old, spend weeks wanting the season to start then after half an hour you want it to fuck off again!

Join the club

[safcftm]

Same old, same old, spend weeks wanting the season to start then after half an hour you want it to fuck off again!

What keeps going wrong at Sunderland SAFCFTM?. On paper you haven't got a bad first 11 and i think your club should be on a par with Stoke, WBA, Palace and Swansea. But they seem to be shite every season and always look destine to be relegated.

Why?, I thought Adovcaat could of been the saviour

Continual mismanagement from the top down to be honest mate. Our net spend will be low yet again having only just escaped relegation the last 2 seasons, you can't keep spending very little (I'm convinced us and the Arsenal are the only clubs that give FFP a second thought!) and hope to improve. We've got no pace (but give Brown a new contract), no creativity or genuine power in midfield (M'Vila is meant to add that but he's a mentalist who slept with an axe in his bed at his last club and got sent off on his debut for our under 21s for headbutting someone so I doubt he's going to help too much!)

We've also got very little pace and are seen as a nice retirement home for some and a place to doss about for others. Our players only seem to start putting a shift in about April when they realise their wages are about to be cut and no one else will want them.

Too many non-football people in the club, not enough investment and quite simply although a fairly big club historically we now don't make the money to compete in this league, our attendances are good but due to cheap prices and we get very little corporate hospitality income, and we don't get as much TV money as others because we're shite and boring to watch.

We might stay up, apparently its a fairly done deal that we're getting Januzaj when Man United get Pedro, I just hope the lad is good, he'll fucking have to be (his reputation seems to be based on 2 goals against us though so I'm not holding my breath).

Ultimately its all about money, we pay too high wages to too much shite, we have players with no sell on value (who would we get over £8m for, probably no one), we keep paying off managers, and this is the end result



Its going to be a long hard season. We might stay up if we do something with the Wickham money but it'll be hard and if we go down it'll almost be a relief after watching this depressing shite year after year.

Oh yeah, the Wickham money, we might have already spent it on Alvarez, we loaned him from Inter last season with a compulsory £7.5m purchase if we stayed up (not a first option type agreed fee, a contractual requirement to sign him if we stayed up no matter how shit he is). He was injured almost all season and shite when he played. We're now trying to back out of signing him and its being taken to FIFA, if they enforce the deal, bang goes the Wickham money and the chance to strengthen.

Did I mention complete ineptitude and mismanagement from top to bottom? An agreed purchase no matter how shite or injury prone someone is, why bother with a bloody loan then, useless bastards!

Sorry for the rant on an Arsenal board mind

PS We've been linked with Arteta, is he worth having? Creativity would be sorted I suppose, the pace issue would still pose a major problem (I'm guessing he could tie one leg up his back and still be better than the rest of our plodders mind)

[officepest]

Same old, same old, spend weeks wanting the season to start then after half an hour you want it to fuck off again!

Your chaps were even worse than ours mate, and that's saying something.

[safcftm]

Same old, same old, spend weeks wanting the season to start then after half an hour you want it to fuck off again!

Your chaps were even worse than ours mate, and that's saying something.

football is shit mate, i might take up billiards or somethimg

[officepest]

PS We've been linked with Arteta, is he worth having? Creativity would be sorted I suppose, the pace issue would still pose a major problem (I'm guessing he could tie one leg up his back and still be better than the rest of our plodders mind)

I’m not sure mate; not now at his age and with his injury history.

He was a very good player, and is versatile, but I fear it would be another addition to your retirement home, plus he’s also lost any pace he had.

[safcftm]

PS We've been linked with Arteta, is he worth having? Creativity would be sorted I suppose, the pace issue would still pose a major problem (I'm guessing he could tie one leg up his back and still be better than the rest of our plodders mind)

I’m not sure mate; not now at his age and with his injury history.

He was a very good player, and is versatile, but I fear it would be another addition to your retirement home, plus he’s also lost any pace he had.

Typical! He would just have to be better than Jordi Gomez and Jack Rodwell to get a guaranteed game like so he wouldn't have a high bar to clear! I'm thinking I'd be quite pleased if we did get him and Januzaj but the retirement home thing would be a worry (and of course Januazaj will just be on loan if we get the deal over the line). At least if we get Arteta we'll be able to watch a proper midfielder like, last ones we had were Malbranque and Zenden, never replaced either (decided Malbranque was too old, he's since been called up to the France squad and played in the Champions League, we are shit!)

[officepest]

Typical! He would just have to be better than Jordi Gomez and Jack Rodwell to get a guaranteed game like so he wouldn't have a high bar to clear! I'm thinking I'd be quite pleased if we did get him and Januzaj but the retirement home thing would be a worry (and of course Januazaj will just be on loan if we get the deal over the line). At least if we get Arteta we'll be able to watch a proper midfielder like, last ones we had were Malbranque and Zenden, never replaced either (decided Malbranque was too old, he's since been called up to the France squad and played in the Champions League, we are shit!)

He’s still committed on the pitch and he can definitely pick a pass, has a shot on him and he used to be able to deliver a set-piece, but I think we’ve coached that out of him now.

[officepest]

City 2 up at the Hawthorns. First a bit of a fluke but Toure's walloped the second.

[mojokickin]

Yaya Toure is tearing west brom apart. City lookilike they've been waiting for this game.

[mcdowell42]

Just need city to score again to take us off the bottom of the table.

[rodders999]

Pfffffff. The city players don't look a leetle bit nervous nor do they seem to be on the verge of an accident. Give me our lot over them any day

[officepest]

Pfffffff. The city players don't look a leetle bit nervous nor do they seem to be on the verge of an accident. Give me our lot over them any day

They’re reaping the benefits from playing all those competitive pre-season games.

[officepest]

Kompany makes it 3 nil.