According to icNewcastle, Roeder about to make a final offer for Rob. Fair enough but should he go, will it not leave us short in midfield? If the money is used to buy someone else then that's ok but I suspect there will be no major signings for the rest of the season.

Unfortunately everyone is buying except us, even the Makems are about to sign Carew I believe.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Answers

Sunderland lash out £7.5m ???????

Don't think so.

I for one cannot help but think it has summit to do with seaton carew!

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Reid's pulled out of buying Yorke because of his fine for drinking on New Year's Eve. This is because he can't drink as much as the players he already has. At least he's consistent.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

LOL, Softie.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Just heard Reidy saying that he had enquired about Carew but that his fitness was an issue. However, he didn't rule out buying him.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

he must be fitter than Quinn, although how would Carew feel about coming to Sunderland and having to sit on the bench cos Quinn has to be first choice

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

One of the things that i've read is that Carew feels that Sunderland is lacking ambitions and that the place itself is not very tempting. He'll probably end up in London....

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Reidy was also discussing Laslandes, saying he just hadn't worked out. Can Soops tell me exactly how many first team starts Lilian had?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

dunno whether this will work

All time playing career

Club	From	To	Fee	League		FA Cup		League cup		Other
FC Cologne	07-01- 2002		Loan	No appearance data available
Sunderland	28-06- 2001		£ 3600000	5 (7)	0	0 (0)	0	0 (1)	1	0 (0)	0
Bordeaux	01-08- 1997	28-06- 2001		111 (8)	43	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	7 (0)	2
Auxerre	01-08- 1992	31-05- 1997		96 (29)	47	0 (0)	0	0 (0)	0	1 (0)	1
Totals			£ 3600000	212 (44)	90	0 (0)	0	0 (1)	1	8 (0)	3
			goals / game	0.35		n/a		1		0.37
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals

Games played by Lilian Laslandes in 2001/2002					Goals	Cards
18-08-2001	English Premier	Sunderland	1-0	Ipswich	0
22-08-2001	English Premier	Fulham	2-0	Sunderland	0
08-09-2001	English Premier	Sunderland	1-0	Blackburn	0
12-09-2001	English League Cup	Sheff Wed	4-2	Sunderland	1
16-09-2001	English Premier	Aston Villa	0-0	Sunderland	0
19-09-2001	English Premier	Sunderland	1-2	Tottenham	0
22-09-2001	English Premier	Sunderland	2-2	Charlton	0
22-10-2001	English Premier	Middlesbro	2-0	Sunderland	0
18-11-2001	English Premier	Sunderland	2-0	Leeds	0
25-11-2001	English Premier	Liverpool	1-0	Sunderland	0
01-12-2001	English Premier	Sunderland	1-0	West Ham	0
09-12-2001	English Premier	Sunderland	0-0	Chelsea	0
15-12-2001	English Premier	Southampton	2-0	Sunderland	0
Goals: 1 Yellow cards: 1 Red Cards: 0

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

dear m, God is looking after HTML tonight

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

but not typos

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Thanks, MacB: so in fact, the Makems didn't even give him a chance to show what he could do....

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Au contraire Dougal. The second table is pretty damning. What could he do? Score one goal against Sheffield Wed!! No goals against a Premiership team. Says it all for me.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

How the hell did a thread about Rob Lee get onto a second rate Sunderland striker who has gone on loan?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Well, we've got a player called French Bob, so named to distinguish him from Bobby Lee and Bobby R. Which put us in mind of Laslandes... 80)

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

Any relation to Two Bob?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002