It might be early days as they say - quite who they are I don't know but anyway - and Sunderland's promotion to the Premiership has already turned into a bit of an anti-climax hasn't it?
No I’m not talking about record lowest points scores, weekly humiliations on Match of the Day or 3-0 home defeats at the hands of Fulham and Wigan, I’m talking about the lack of transfer activity.
Of course, there has been plenty of speculation about who will be arriving on Wearside this summer, most of it involving Roy Keane’s former teammates at Manchester United or anyone with a drop of Irish blood in their heritage, but still nothing certain.
In fact, the silence from the Stadium of Light isn’t deafening, it’s just annoying. It’s football’s silly season, people like me are supposed to link lots of weird and wonderful names with clubs up and down the country, but it would be nice if something happened, something that would give us something definite to write about. In short, just something, please.
All I know for certain at the moment is that Gavin McCann - big sigh of relief - will not be returning to the club after losing his place at Aston Villa. Oh well, never mind Gav, I’m sure there are a few Championships sides who are interested in a player of your - ahem - talents!
So that just leaves the possibility Keane is trying to sign - at the last unofficial count - 34 players. Wow, that’s quite a task, even for someone as talented and persuasive as Roy.
It also begs the question, just how many of these are actually interesting Sunderland and how many have simply been plucked randomly out of a Football Who’s Who Book?
I would like to add at this point that I have never randomly plucked a name out of any book, although I did once write that Peter Reid was trying to sign the former Newcastle full back Andy Griffin on the basis that he had been at a reserve game between the two sides at Kingston Park. It was a long shot, I agree, and, unsurprisingly, absolutely nothing ever came of it apart from one story in The Journal but there you go....
Of course, there is no point rushing and the season only ended three weeks ago, but it would be nice if we had one new arrival to get excited about don’t you think? Just one day when it wasn’t just speculation based on rumours and whispers.
Mind you until then, I’ve decided to make it 35 players by exclusively linking Sunderland with Tottenham’s Robbie Keane. He’s Irish and he’s a striker and, well that’s about it but it seems to be enough to get you linked with a move to Sunderland.
I’d also like to exclusively reveal that Keane is attempting to persuade Eric Cantona to come out of retirement. He used to play for Manchester United....... Come to think of it, I wonder if Denis Irwin has still got his boots. He used to play at Old Trafford and he’s Irish - perfect!
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