The Premier League 2025/26

[BomberBowyer]

It's quite funny seeing some of the comments on Twitter. When we went up in our first season everyone said we were 'doing a Fulham' and that it was bound to fail.

Now everyone's saying Sunderland are 'doing a Forest' and that it's the only way to stand a chance!

What I've learned over these last few years is that nobody in the media knows anything. Its all bluster and, basically, bollocks.

Ignore Talkshite  and other idiots but I do think we have changed the narrative from the more intelligent media. The scepticism when we did it was understandable and lets get real here 29 signings was scattergun and some were downright baffling.
However its definitely shifted the opinion that literally the only way to survive is gamble and spend big and wide and “the Forest method” can pay off. Some wont work out for Sunderland same as for us but they may just have enough gems assembled to see them over the line.
Bottom 3 isn’t going to be as predictable as some thought.

29 signings was crazy but tbf some of those were to replace/cover for ones brought in who then got injured (ie Henderson, Niakathe, Bianconne, Lingard, Awoniyi etc) We had an horrific time with injuries that first season back. I’m sure we may well have signed some in the January anyway to help keep us up but some would probably not have happened had it not been for the injuries.