Are Sunderland spending enough money in the transfer market?

Sunderland Echo

Are Sunderland spending enough money in the transfer market? From The Roar Podcast.

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00:00 There's a lot of talk about money and money being spent.

00:02 And I think people can sometimes get a little carried away

00:06 with some of the figures that are bandied around

00:08 in the championship.

00:09 But for me, I've seen a lot of very, very level-headed

00:13 friends and Sunderland fans say that we're not asking

00:17 for Sunderland to blow a gasket in the transfer window

00:21 and have a splurge for want of a better word.

00:25 But you're looking at players like Ella Sims,

00:27 who did go for a pretty penny, even Nathan Broadhead.

00:31 Obviously, Sunderland were perhaps a little put off

00:33 by his injury, but he did command a fairly decent fee

00:36 to get him to Ipswich.

00:39 Other players as well, there's a talk of a million-pound

00:42 loan fee for Tom Cannon, which you can argue all day

00:46 whether that's worth it or not.

00:49 A lot of Sunderland fans I'm talking to are saying,

00:52 "We don't want the club to overspend,"

00:53 but there's an acceptance that maybe at some point

00:56 they're going to have to spend some money.

00:58 I'm not saying they haven't spent any money

00:59 because quite clearly they have.

01:01 They've brought in players for fees,

01:03 but those fees may need to increase,

01:06 especially where it comes to a striker

01:07 because it is a premium position.

01:10 - Yeah, so I'm going to say a couple of things here

01:12 and hopefully people will get to the end

01:17 rather than just have a go at it

01:18 because the first bit will be much...

01:19 The first thing to say is that Sunderland's net spend

01:22 over the last four windows has been pretty significant.

01:25 - Yeah.

01:26 - It has been, it's just a fact.

01:29 Now, I do think there is a...

01:32 So for example, the loan fee you mentioned,

01:34 there is definitely a willingness from Sunderland

01:37 to pay pretty hefty loan fees.

01:40 Joe Gelhart had most of the Championship wanting them.

01:43 That was not cheap.

01:45 That was not cheap.

01:46 Sunderland, after Stewart got injured,

01:48 were prepared to go and spend another massive loan fee.

01:51 I think it's pretty well known that they had four strikers

01:54 that were trying to sign a loan from the Premier League

01:55 on January.

01:56 Some of them would have come with big loan fees.

01:58 And one of the players they were looking at

02:01 was Julian Enciso, who then went on and scored

02:04 loads of goals for Brighton,

02:05 but he didn't want to come down to the Championship.

02:08 Fair play worked out pretty well for him,

02:10 let's be honest.

02:11 But the point is that there is definitely

02:13 a willingness to spend.

02:14 What's also absolutely true is that the fundamental reason

02:17 why Sunderland are finding it much harder

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