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Paully D · 08-08-2016 10:31pm

Aguero by a country mile.

It's worth remembering that Sunderland currently have a worse team than the one that stayed up by the skin of their teeth (again) last season and will either have an out of position player playing at RB or Billy Jones. God knows which is worse.

FHFC · 08-08-2016 11:38pm

Paully D wrote: »

Aguero by a country mile.

It's worth remembering that Sunderland currently have a worse team than the one that stayed up by the skin of their teeth (again) last season and will either have an out of position player playing at RB or Billy Jones. God knows which is worse.

After City would you consider a Sunderland def as part of a rotation? Or would you steer clear till Moyes gets a while to sort it?

Paully D · 09-08-2016 12:21am

FHFC wrote: »

After City would you consider a Sunderland def as part of a rotation? Or would you steer clear till Moyes gets a while to sort it?

I'd certainly steer clear early on mate but they have one of the strangest fixture lists in the league this season in terms of FPL, IMO. The reason I say that is they never seem to have enough nice fixtures in a row to make investment seem like a good option.

GW's 1-6 should rule them out of consideration entirely for that period anyway, but look at the games from then until January 1st:

GW's 1-6 = mci, MID, sou, EVE, tot
GW's 6+ = WBA, CPL, sto, whm, ARS, bou, HUL, liv, LEI, swa, CHE. WAT, mnu, bur, LIV

Also, they have a lot of work to do in the transfer market and it remains to be seen how solid Moyes can get them. That said, after GW6 rotation with someone like MID (Karanka is a very defensively minded manager) would get you:

WBA, CPL, WAT, whm/ars, BOU, bou, HUL, liv/lei, HUL, swa, LIV/CHE, SWA/WAT, bur, LEI

It doesn't look bad though I'm sure there's probably better around.

Dubliner28 · 09-08-2016 1:36pm

Augero

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GetWithIt · 09-08-2016 2:32pm

I don't get the notion that the Sunderland defence is rubbish and Aguero is going to fill his boots.

Sunderland finished last season with one of the best defences. If Kone stays that remains so (big if) and Moyes instead of Big Sam is not a negative in that respect. He's had a full pre-season.

Paully D · 09-08-2016 10:58pm

GetWithIt wrote: »

I don't get the notion that the Sunderland defence is rubbish and Aguero is going to fill his boots.

Sunderland finished last season with one of the best defences. If Kone stays that remains so (big if) and Moyes instead of Big Sam is not a negative in that respect. He's had a full pre-season.

It is rubbish and they'll struggle big time again this season the way things are looking. The optimism that encompassed last season's end to the season with Allardyce at the helm has been completely destroyed over the last month.

Kone will probably be gone or almost certainly left out if not. The only senior RB available is Billy Jones and he has a niggle. Kirchhoff is huge in terms of protecting the defense and he hasn't been heard of since he went off injured a few minutes into a pre-season friendly last week. Paddy McNair and Donald Love have signed but that's no help at all. It'll likely be O'Shea and Kaboul at CB and prior to Allarydce coming in and working with Kaboul for a few months was an utter mess while O'Shea's legs are shot.

Moyes has only been there 2 and a half weeks and it'll be just over 3 weeks to the day when the season kicks off.