Originally Posted by
Smartie
I maintain that he represents a fantastic, cheap option to provide a great shift for Sunderland in midfield the year after next, when they're trying to get promoted out of the Championship again.
A loan to us surely makes most sense to all parties - we'd like to get a great player for another year, he wants to play every week in the run up to the World Cup and Sunderland get a fairly polished player back when they're more likely to need to use him than now.
Of course we want to have him permanently but I don't get why Sunderland would want to accept relative buttons for him? I say relative buttons, we'd be smashing records to sign him but they're currently buying and selling in the £30m+ player range so anything we pay would be relative buttons.
Any party gets greedy, they risk missing out on the goodness that is already great for all 3 parties.