We need a big physical ball winning midfielder who can also progress the ball and play further up the pitch.
God I wish we had signed Wouter Burger from Stoke in the summer for something ridiculous like £3/4m.
Brilliant player and he still looks a mile above most midfielders at this level.
However I can’t see Doug as the type of person to go back for a player and I wouldn’t imagine Frank wanting to sign him either, he doesn’t seem like a Frank type signing.
Seville would be a good move
Most Sunderland fans I saw used to say he was the next big thing for England in central midfield.
Funny how after a year in the prem and now he’s irrelevant.
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Brau and maybe Andrews (Wigan loan by then?)
Rushworth
MVE - Woolf - Kitch - JDS
Grimes - Eccles
Esse - Rudi - EMC
Simms
Wilson
Lati
Bidwell
Allen
Torp
Sakamoto
Minny
BTA
Wright
That’s the team for me. Torp, BTA, Minny and Sakamoto to come on and make a real impact to push it from 6...
Backs up Marty the other day saying Neil is off to Rangers (+1 point on ITK leaderboard)
I like hearing Jimmys inputs and he is usually spot on so far. Gives a bit of excitement to the transfer window too
No doubt he will just reword what Frank said and make it sound like we have something imminent with some bullshit headline.
In the presser Frank said he was happy to have 2 in and that if we feel the need to strengthen then we will. I.e I’m not going to tell the press anything.
I would imagine if we do see another it would be more a defensive or box to box type midfielder in the 6/8 mould.
For attacking midfield we now have Rudi and BTA who arguably has played his best football this year in the 10 due to come back soon. Add to that Esse who has been playing this...
Leeds have really impressed me this year too.
Stach, Bijol, Gudmundsson and DCL have all been phenomenal signings. If we are to go up this year, we need to be pulling something similar out of the bag.