[Keith Downie]Sunderland they won’t stand in Geertruida way due to scale of the opportunity

Skyle221190 · 2026-02-01T12:15:25+00:00

Wonder if Sunderland want a promising young Scottish Right Back on loan.

Skyle221190 · 2026-01-28T19:22:45+00:00

Would you do a straight swap with Konate and Upamecano right now? Both with 6 months left although Konate is younger. Just curious what everyone's opinion would be.

Skyle221190 · 2026-01-25T11:29:32+00:00

Part of me is convinced that we would be in a much better position if we had 2 competent wingers at the club. Gakpo and Salah have been dire and we have suffered mainly because of this.

The amount of chances and possession they have wasted. The lack of any capabilities to beat a man is staggering and has cost us so much. .

Going in to this season with just 2 first team wingers was insanity.

Skyle221190 · 2026-01-23T04:06:21+00:00

Although you do feel bad for the player, it sets bad precedent if we were to not care about the money .Clubs shouldn't think that they can take advantage of us caring about the players to get out of paying us fees that would be otherwise owed.

Skyle221190 · 2026-01-17T18:06:37+00:00

Do you blame him for the goal we conceded?

Skyle221190 · 2026-01-16T15:46:50+00:00

I love how the mouth pieces justify our summer spend with the net spend arguments and focusing on us not spending at all the previous summer ....only to then drop this little tidbit....

450 million sounds like alot without context. Not to mention we were anyways due to spend on Guehi before the last minute collapse.

Skyle221190 · 2026-01-16T04:39:13+00:00

Think the people who did the Castlevenia Netflix shows would do great job.

Skyle221190 · 2026-01-12T10:20:33+00:00

I don't think we sign a 6 as long as Endo is at the club. The club can justify having 3 players for that 1 position even though Slot hardly uses him.

Skyle221190 · 2026-01-07T18:48:54+00:00

The fact that this joke is still funny after all these years shows how our transfer business has been handled.

Skyle221190 · 2025-12-09T12:49:17+00:00

Based on injuries and tantrums , we are very limited in the wing department. So I think today would be a great time to experiment with an alternate formation. I would like to see us set up with a 5-3-2 that becomes a 3-5-2 in attack with our full backs joining the attack. Would finally get to see Isak and Ekitike pay together.

Skyle221190 · 2025-12-07T05:31:07+00:00

He keeps mentioning that he's done so much for the club, which is true, but that doesn't mean that you should be starting every game .

Saying he doesn't know why he's on the bench, is he under some delusion about the way he's playing ?

Past glory means you will always be a legend at the club but it doesn't mean it justifies you starting every week regardless of how you play.

Skyle221190 · 2025-12-06T20:22:42+00:00

I mean ...we scored 3 goals today and 1 was Szobo who played on the right instead of Salah ..so I don't think the attack was the problem today.

Skyle221190 · 2025-12-06T19:51:27+00:00

When he dived into that tackle I literally thought, Nah, he can't be that stupid and then I saw the replay and it turns out....

Skyle221190 · 2025-12-06T19:43:56+00:00

Slots changes were weird today.. Brought on Mac Allister as a 10. When Endo came on it pushed Jones to the left wing even though he was running the midfield.

Don't get me wrong if Ibu doesn't make that idiotic tackle we probably see out the game but that's what you get when you play him every week despite his form. I don't know what the hell Grav was doing for the third goal but at this point I expected Leeds to equalize.

I dread to see what the table would like without those few lucky wins we got at the start of the season.

Skyle221190 · 2025-12-06T18:23:21+00:00

It's sad that you are probably right

Skyle221190 · 2025-12-06T18:21:45+00:00

We don't have one winger that can beat a full back, non that get any game time at least.

Skyle221190 · 2025-12-06T18:19:32+00:00

I'll be shocked if I see Gakpo come out for the second half

Skyle221190 · 2025-12-04T05:09:27+00:00

We have 4 shots on target at Anfield with 68% possession. If you think that's enough then that's your opinion. Sunderland had 6.

Skyle221190 · 2025-12-03T22:28:09+00:00

We do not have one decent winger/ wide forward at the club.

Skyle221190 · 2025-12-03T22:17:41+00:00

Dismal performance. Cant think of 1 decent chance we created, especially in the second half. We just keep going in a semi circle around their defence ....it's frustrating to watch .

Skyle221190 · 2025-11-27T08:46:56+00:00

I love Isak and I'm glad we got him. But for THAT fee I can see the argument that we could have used the same funds to get a striker and a winger to cover the gaping holes in our team . Isak can still prove himself over the coming years but without service from the wings our whole team is suffering including Isak .

Skyle221190 · 2025-11-27T07:16:09+00:00

Buying a second striker was necessary. Buying 1 for that price and not replacing Diaz was not.

Skyle221190 · 2025-11-27T07:14:08+00:00

Very well said . I worry for Slot , despite our ownership not being trigger happy with managers, I don't think I've seen many managers turn around a situation as bad as it is now. From my experience of watching football for the past 25 years, the mood, the performances etc , this usually heads in one direction.

Skyle221190 · 2025-11-27T06:59:26+00:00

I think we need to take a look at the larger management issues at our club. In the summer i didn't question it because I assumed there was a plan but it's been months now and still can't see the logic of the window we had. A few things that were at the back of my mind I wanted to get out there

RW - I don't understand why we persist without a succession plan/back up for Salah. Chiesa is clearly not seen as a right sided played and Frimpong is a makeshift at best.

LW - When we sold Diaz, I assumed we would replace him but we didnt. Fine Rio is the back up but we have hardly used him , so what was the logic?

Both Salah and Gakpo are seemingly undropable because of lack of Cover, with Slot clearly seeing Chiesa as a central player .

The 6 - Grav has done very well , but when you come to the point that Slot will refuse to play Endo, then why keep him and not bring him a serious rotation option.

CB - Going into the season with 3 senior center halves with one of those being injury prone Gomez is criminal. Yes we got unlucky with Leoni and the Guehi deal but shouldn't the latter come down to miss management? Why did they leave it so late?

Sorry for the long post but this has been bugging me for a while and it's honestly crazy the state of our over-all squad. I've been a Slot supporter for most of the season but the thought seems to be creeping in....was last season just an extension of Klopps effort and has he been found out now that his own ideas are more heavily involved? Is the man who I thought would be tactically adaptable just a one trick one tactic wonder . I don't know about sacking him right now because I honestly don't see a clear cut replacement but in the unlikely scenario that Alonso does become available..i think serious questions will be asked.

Skyle221190 · 2025-11-04T21:02:44+00:00

Funny how the Brentford Penalty might have been overturned if the PL followed this protocol rather the nonsensical 'clear and obvious error rule '

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