Dick has to Mackem work at Sunderland
Article by Jon Guy
The final week was all about the finishing touches to the squad and with Fabio Borini arriving for the best part of £9 million and US international full back DeAndre Yedlin squeezed in on loan in the final hours.
Yedlin may not have played a great deal for Tottenham and naturally will not line up next Sunday against his parent club but he will provide a bit of competition and had a storming game for the US midweek.
When Borini was at Sunderland on loan a few years ago I really liked him. Here was another player who wore his heart on his sleeve, scored a winner against the mags at the SoL, and was a major part of our great escape.
However he resisted all attempts to lure him back permanently and did so again when we tried at the start of this transfer window. Told frankly by Liverpool he would not feature he clearly thought he was off to Italy with Inter Milan mentioned. It seems when that deal proved to be fiction suddenly it was not blue and black stripes but red and white stripes that he swore blind were his dream to wear.
Well for me if he lights up the Premier League this year scores a hatful and then heads off for £20 million at the end of the season so be it but we cannot kid he will be with us for a prolonged period of his career.
What we do have though now are real options. The players we have brought in look to be decent and are most importantly better than what we have in the main although the jury remains out on a couple.
M’Vila could be the signing of the year for me but Lens looks class and now the talk is over Defoe will knuckle down and give a goal scoring threat. Ola Toivonen had a promising debit and looks like he can pick a pass and was keen to get bomb into the box when he could.
While the new signings are solid to say the least I believe the key to the season will be Dick Advocaat and his team’s ability to get the best out of some of those players they inherited.
If he can get Jack Rodwell back to anywhere near the player that he was at Everton and in his early career at Man City it would be like have a massive new signing.
He has a squad, he seems to know a system and the couple of weeks that the international break has given The Lads a chance to bed in a little.
Roll on the 13th and maybe we can provide the Sky viewers with a shock.
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