RT @liprifti: @SunderlandAFC 🇦🇱

Club still very much at work getting the concourse ready.

Getting to watch Granit Xhaka and Isco on opposing sides at the Stadium of Light. What the fuck.

Would be very bold for Ghisolfi to going for one of Si King’s pies with any new potential signing. Can’t imagine anyone in that photo is a player, probably just agents. I highly recommend the Chicken Tikka pie if they’ve got it on though.

Siraj sounding like a Pterodactyl here.

RT @Vitu_E: Charges Mohammed Siraj second ball, inside edge past his stumps for four

RT @SunderlandAFC: Welkom bij Sunderland AFC, Robin Roefs! 🇳🇱🧤.

For a band like Fontaines, whose merch used to be very cool, this is some of the most disgusting stuff I’ve ever seen. Why when bands get ‘big’ does merch design just become so much uglier at twice the cost. Who is wearing this?

Essentially living every young lad in a behemoth Premier League club academy’s dreams. He’s done it in a roundabout way but that reminder provided by Xhaka’s arrival might’ve made it all just feel real.

Worth noting that Dan Ballard came through Arsenal’s youth ranks while Xhaka was the captain. Xhaka will have set the standard at the club as Ballard looked across from the U23s, in the hope of one day joining him in a Premier League starting XI. He gets to do that now.

No link or rumour until 8am this morning. Wrapped up an in a Sunderland shirt by tea time. Absolutely class. The rumours have gone quiet for a while but hotting back up now. They’re still very much at work.

Sorry lads, I didn’t hear that. My innovative mind was too busy maximising opportunities for my potential.

Are they aware they can take Lee Johnson’s posters down?.

RT @SunderlandAFC: Sunderland AFC is delighted to announce the signing of Granit Xhaka, who joins on a three-year deal from Bayer 04 Leverk….

RT @SunderlandAFC: This isn't just a Club, this is Sunderland. Welcome back to the @PremierLeague, Granit Xhaka! 😍

Robin Roefs stats last season in the Eredivisie. 5.2 goals prevented is crazy good (Pattersons was -1.7 last year). Not to mention it was his full debut season and he kept 10 clean sheets. Looks a very good pick up and great value at about £9m.

Good morning sports fans!.

FWIW, I think he’s better than Pope. I’d argue this is a better deal than if they’d spent £40m on (an untested in the PL) Trafford. It’s still immensely funny that they missed out on Trafford but, despite being a meme, Ramsdale is a very decent keeper.

Skinner does a great job of saying just enough to get people annoyed about something (I’m not sure what but…) without actually saying something contentious that steps over the line. ‘I’m just a bloke who loves my wife, what’s wrong with that?’. You can’t exactly disagree.