Sunderland thread | 2025/26

Vienna_70 said:
Best of luck, mate.

I hope you achieve your target.
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Cheers mate.... my young uns have never known a season like this after league 1 and the championship....we'll enjoy it while we can..there'll be tough times coming.... but hey...right now..fuck it... we're having a fucking blast
 
Fair play to them

Looks like they've come into the league and quickly sussed out a lot of these sides aren't actually that good and having a real go at them.

I think too many newly promoted sides come up and just try to fiddle their way through and survive. Sunderland have come up and have seen that there isn't too much to fear actually.
 
All three promoted sides have prioritised pace and power.

Southampton and Leicester prioritised possession football and build up on the deck and were just immediately outclassed by 17 other teams who do that better than them, with more pace and power to boot. Leeds, Sunderland and Burnley identified that physicality is needed to even have a chance of staying up and went for sizeable players, whilst simplifying their build up. Leeds were always a 60%+ average possession team in the champ with a goal keeping build up, they've packed that in to try and remain harder to score against.
 
KS55 said:
Xhaka seems a very smart signing to me. Lots of PL experience. A better player than some Tarquins thought.
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Xhaka can do a job for pretty much every team in the league to some degree or another. He'd get substitute minues for Arsenal, City.. Liverpool, Chelsea.. Sunderland signing him was a massive coup.
 
KS55 said:
Xhaka seems a very smart signing to me. Lots of PL experience. A better player than some Tarquins thought.
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No we knew he was elite he just kept getting sent off until Arteta calmed him down in his final season. Delighted for him that he won the German double and hope he does well for Sunderland apart from against us!
 
Fair play to them, they're hugely exceeding expectations (even, I'm guessing, amongst Mackems). On 17 pts now; I'm guessing that 6, certainly 7, more wins out of their remaining 29 games will see them safe. Mid-high 30s is usually enough to stay up in most seasons.
 
They have some legit good players too, they had the best transfer window of anyone, alongside Arsenal.
 
SambaStyle said:
They have some legit good players too, they had the best transfer window of anyone, alongside Arsenal.
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To think they looked dead and buried in the play off final against Sheff Utd and now look at both sides. A real sliding doors moment
 
They looked into every aspect of Arsenal’s game plan - according to media:

To combat the throw-in danger, Sunderland moved the advertising boards around the edge of the pitch closer in than usual, to limit the amount of space Arsenal players had when looking to launch the ball.

"We tried to find the details to win the game," said Le Bris, when asked after the 2-2 draw if that was true.

Small details = success. Credit to Sunderland
 
Andy TheCatalyst Morrison said:
Always liked Sunderland because:
a) they’re not Newcastle
b) when they got relegated at Maine Road in early 90s (bit of a guess) but brought thousands and were brilliant to be with
c) 13/05/2012
d) League Cup final in 2014 (?) when again they were great to be with and weren’t bitter at all.

Top fans, top club.
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I’ve liked Sunderland since May 1973, when they beat dirty Leeds in the Cup final.

À team, which contained future City legends Dennis Tueart and "Big" Dave Watson.
 
Still trying to make sense of the game yesterday....

Arsenal outclassed us with ball retention and skill.... but we outfought them.

Awful mistake from Le Fee for the equaliser... as soon as the ball went to him..I screamed "dont piss about with it" (my natural management style).

And then there was only one winner once Trossard scored....

Except..there wasn't....

Arteta.fucked up bringing on a defender for a forward..why?? We weren't getting the ball??

And then it was a case of gamble and dare to chuck bodies forward.... and My hobby to the rescue.

I honestly think if VAR made a decision in the goal...then we would probably have got a penalty as Gabriel had Brobbeys shirt off.
Gabriel is a **** BTW.

And still in typical Sunderland fashion.... we put our fans through the mill in the last second
..as Talbi didn't track Califiori for a header... but Big Dan B threw himself at the ball.

Fabulous result, fabulous atmosphere
 
kingn6 said:
I wish them every success, great set of fans regardless of division. Really enjoyed when they had disco pants a d Kevin Phillips up front. Then let us never forget they got their allegiances right as well.

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Does anyone remember that the pisscan, shortly after this match, said that all the games should END at the same time?

Absolute wanker?
 
Vienna_70 said:
Does anyone remember that the pisscan, shortly after this match, said that all the games should END at the same time?

Absolute wanker?
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What’s always missed , is the mumbled end of that sentence ‘… unless it’s us and we need a goal, then the match should continue until the goal, or a penalty be given to us after the players have left the pitch.’
 
Sunderland lost their last five league games last season and then I watched them scrape past a much superior Coventry team and then Sheff. Utd. in the final and thought, I'm really pleased for them, but my God they're going to be so far out of their depth in the Prem. that Derby's low points record could well be in serious danger.

But they've gone and replaced virtually their whole squad, similar to what Forest did a few years ago, and made some very shrewd signings. All for a little over £100 million, net. To do all that in the space of a couple of months over the summer and end up with a squad capable of giving the likes of Arsenal as tough a game as they've had this season, is nothing short of incredible.

Genuinely hope they can carry it on. Things will obviously get tougher over the course of a full season. But see no reason why they cant comfortably stay up from the position they're in now.
 
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