G11
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How utterly humbling for them.
From Messi selling pies and Cristiano Ronaldo cleaning boots to copying Sunderland with their tails between their legs because they couldn't beat them even with a 4-year, half billion quid head start and and oil-rich nation behind them 😂 #SAFC
Andy@SAFCsource
'With #SAFC having parked their tanks on Howe’s front lawn, there is a tacit acknowledgment at Newcastle that besting their fierce local rivals and football’s spending regulations will involve copying elements of the Wearside club’s recruitment model.' theguardian.com/football/2026/…
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@MIGHTYSPURZ All 3 mentioned are shite. The right wing is our weakest area.
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@Santi_J_FM He looked like he was saying goodbye on Sunday. Spent a lot of time on his own away from the team, waving to the crowd.
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🚨EXCL: 🔴⚪️🇪🇸 #PL |
❗️Eliezer Mayenda is expected to leave Sunderland this summer.
👀 After playing a key role in the club’s promotion campaign last season and contributing to its impressive PL return and historic EL qualification this season, the 🇪🇸 talent is attracting strong interest from several ambitious European clubs.
👀 Big summer ahead for Mayenda
footmercato.net/a1798863039810…

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Sunderland’s starting XI in their joyous, season-ending 2-1 victory over listless Chelsea cost the same as £106m Enzo Fernandez. This is no slight on a world champion, an elite attacking midfielder, full of craft and craftiness, if moody at times. This is simply a celebration of Sunderland’s exceptional recruitment, finding gems who can see - and seize - the opportunity at the Stadium of Light.
This is also a celebration of Regis Le Bris’ remarkable team-building, blending and bonding qualities which have guided a side promoted via the play-offs into seventh and Europe. For those of us who thought Sunderland would go straight back down, apologies and enjoy Europe. You deserve it. A well-run football operation deserves it. That backing from stands to boardroom deserves it. Football also deserves it: a reminder that the status quo can be challenged with shrewd planning and investment and hard work.
Of Le Bris’ starting XI against Chelsea, eight joined on the eve of the season and one in the winter window: Roefs a reported £9m from Nijmegen; Mukiele £9.5m from PS-G; Reinaldo free from Atletico Madrid; Geertruida loan from RB Leipzig; Le Fee £19.3m, loan made permanent from Roma; Xhaka £13m from Bayer Leverkusen; Sadiki £15m from Union St-Gilloise; Angulo £17.5m from Anderlecht (in February); and seven-goal Brobbey £21.6m from Ajax. Two 2025 arrivals came off the bench: Diarra £30m from Strasbourg; and Isidor £5m loan made permanent from Zenit St-Petersburg (in February 2025).
Three of the 14 involved were already at the club. The starting pair of: Hume £200,000 from Linfield in 2022; and O’Nien undisclosed but reported as £200,000 to £300,000 from Wycombe Wanderers in 2018. And the sub: Rigg from Sunderland’s academy. (The £105.5m total does not include the undisclosed loan fees).
When Sunderland won 2-1 at the Bridge in October, Le Bris’ starting XI cost only £75m (and also had the important Ballard, £2m from Arsenal in 2022). Chelsea’s starting XI was £433m.
Four miles from the Bridge, on Park Lane this evening, the League Managers Association celebrates its members’ many achievements this season. Le Bris certainly deserves a mention. Mixing old and many new players, and getting new signings to settle quickly, requires real people skills. Le Bris and his staff clearly have them.
It’s also a reflection on Sunderland’s family club reputation that so many newcomers are welcomed and assimilated so quickly. Some will move on, some will be moved on but what a journey this is across England - and soon Europe. #SAFC
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Give us the Tyne-Wear derby three days after Sunderland have been to the arse-end of Europe. #NUFC
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@G11FTM @BaldDavid_ If you wanna tell yourself that mate then go ahead
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Sunderland is not messing around.
No chance they'll be in a relegation battle #SAFC
Sky Sports News@SkySportsNews
BREAKING: Sunderland are exploring an ambitious move to sign Bayer Leverkusen midfielder Granit Xhaka 🚨 Xhaka has three years left on his Leverkusen deal but could be allowed to leave this window.
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@talkSPORT He’s 100% right. It was embarrassing. You’ve won the title 100 times in a tin pot league. You have no competition and gan on like that.
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Do you agree or disagree with this statement.
Sunday's game is our biggest game in modern history since the 2014 league cup final.
#SAFC
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@Mrjamieohara1 You had me until you said Oasis.
“Tottenham, Tottenham, no one can stop them….”
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@SunderlandAFC @LimbsSunderland To think we could’ve had this potentially wrapped up if diarra had scored and we beat wolves 🥲
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@TouchlineX Pub league ends with a pub league ending. Literally no one wanted Celtic to win that and it weakens the league even further.
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Why does Stuart Attwell keeps getting Manchester United games?
𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒗𝒔 𝑺𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅:
1. Ignored a couple of fouls on Amad and allowed play to continue.
2. Booked Zirkzee for a lesser foul than Xhaka’s challenge on Dorgu, which went unpunished.
3. Gave most 50–50 decisions to Sunderland.
4. Denied United a corner in the closing stages of the match.
5. Booked Cunha for simulation when it could have been ignored.

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@lufcalexx @DexertoChris @shezlufc @SkySportsPL @Carra23 Based on last season, yeah, but we have a totally different squad this season. Plus it’s April, his point was 8-9 months out of date !
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@DexertoChris @shezlufc @G11FTM @SkySportsPL @Carra23 Yeah definitely - between that and losing to Burnley
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@DexertoChris @lufcalexx @shezlufc @SkySportsPL @Carra23 Fair point and I agree if he was talking about that one game but he’d never have remembered the team selection or who we had available. Hes talking generally and I don’t think that’s a fair point
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@lufcalexx @shezlufc @G11FTM @SkySportsPL @Carra23 Was the worst result of the season.
No disrespect to Sunderland but given the 11 they fielded/had available, that was a great result for them and a honking result for us.
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