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Happy memories of some great players that graced the original kit!!

That is really re-writing history! Burge was released and not offered a contract. Am sure we would have initially kept Willis if we could have, but his agent had lined him up for a move to Luton in the Championship which fell through. By the time he moved to Sunderland we had already moved on...

Really? I seem to remember plenty of moaning on here last Summer that we weren't signing players early enough.

Other young City players cut down by injuries in their prime that come to my mind are Graham Oakey and Lee Hurst. Unfortunately I have no idea what they did to cope with the disappointment and inevitable depression, or even what they went on to do once their careers were over.

It's not just down to his agent. Waghorn's preferred club to move to might only want to commit initially until the January window, and then see how things go. While there's a chance of another club willing to pay some of his salary I don't see CCFC just paying him off in full. I suspect he will...

Everyone on holiday I should think. I wouldn't expect any announcements until the club come back for pre season training.

Is it just coincidental? It is undeniable though that our away form has followed the same pattern over the last 3 seasons, with even our promotion season not producing an away win until Christmas time. Hopefully MR can find the solution and have us firing away from home much earlier next season.

Terrible shame. If I remember right the previous Sunderland manager got him to play even though he was carrying an injury. His mind must be full of what ifs. These sort of instances is where the PFA should be earning their corn in supporting him to a positive future in or out of football.

To emphasise the disadvantage we face against the 'parachute payment' supported clubs I see Fulham have released on frees Jean Michael Seri who they signed for £25m, & Alfie Mawson who they signed for £20m. Imagine being able to spend £20m+ on bit part players filling up your squad!

He was a better player technically, but he was less effective and less influential. He was derided because he patently didn't make best use of his obvious ability. His goals return of 2 in his last 3 seasons with us was frankly woeful. Doyle can look back on his career of 700 games or so knowing...

Not a chance. Once we lose to one of the teams in a league below us, which on previous experience of pre seasons been and gone, we inevitably will, the doom and gloom merchants will be out in force

As pointed out, Hughes career was on its way down when he joined us. He had an excellent first season but was generally poor after that. I had the impression that having such a good start to his career had made him a little complacent, which led to him not living up to his early promise and...

The Sunderland team that played today would be fighting relegation in the Championship, while the Wycombe side would be near certs to finish rock bottom. Will be interesting to see how much Sunderland spend in the Summer, as they will surely have to do, if they have ideas of finishing mid table...

Maybe not, but will he be willing to take a big loss in wages to order to play elsewhere? Professionally of course he will want to play week in week out, but the advice and guidance he gets from his agent and family might be otherwise.

We definitely won't get a fee for him. I should think we'd happily give him away for free if there were any takers. Unlikely to be any that will be happy to take on his wages though, so the best we might do is cover a small percentage of his wages to whoever he would move onto. My gut feeling is...

Would have definitely taken him a few seasons back. However, he seems to play in the Sheaf role these days and I would rather stick with him.

If so they could possibly be replaced by our big 3! Regardless though, Leeds will have a huge financial advantage over every other team in the league. It will take a hugely incompetent manager not to take them straight back up. Burnley would be far more likely to struggle.

I disagree. I would expect Leeds to walk it.

Yes that's right. He was about 6 foot 2 and ended up playing the rest of his career as a footballing centre back in Belgium. I felt our weakness as a team at that time with Shaw and Williams was at centre back, so always felt we missed a trick by letting him go so quickly. I guess we also had...

Clement was Belgian and looked a decent signing. Got injured fairly early on though and it seemed Strachan didn't want to give him another chance after that. Ended up playing over 100 times for Belgium, and is one we should have probably persevered with in retrospect.