Surely Sunderland need all the Strikers they can get

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    Wastyke New Member

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    Parting with Chopra. They have scored 9 goals this season from 11 matches, surely relegation form. So they part with a 'good' Striker, baffling int it (doh) (doh) (doh)
     
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    To be fair...

    The gulf in class between the Championship and the Premiership is pretty darn big. Although Chopra was a very good Championship striker, I haven't seen too much of him at a higher level. I can only assume that he really isn't consistently good enough to merit a place in a Premiership team.

    A few season ago, when Newcastle were doing 'reasonably' well - they released Michael Chopra. At the time, they had a pretty good management team in place, who were very keen on blooding the youth up at St.James Park - the likes of Ramage/Taylor etc...but they released Chopra.

    Like I said, he's very good at Championship level, but at Premiership level, you need a lot more talent, as the defenders and goalkeepers up there are literally in a different league. Even though Chopra will do great at Cardiff; sadly, we just aren't big enough financially to attract the likes of him to the club.
     
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    RE: To be fair...

    Sorry I thought he'd played at Barnsley...must have been someone else
     
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    Yes.

    He was on loan here from Newcastle when he was younger and when we were in the 2nd Division. What's your point?

    Chopra will cost Cardiff 500k for a two month loan spell - how could we, at the moment, justify that?
     
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    RE: Yes.

    Arguably Chopra ,played his best football for us ,and if we can afford Kevin Phillips on a permanant deal we can afford Chopra on loan.....not that I would want him,stick with what we've got until January for me
     
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    I'm keen to see Coulson playing a bit.

    Only trouble is I like idea of Oddjob, Mossto and Coulson as late (poss impact) subs - but we can't have all three. I'd expect one to go out on loan.
     
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    The impact of Coulson against Blackpool in the cup ended up with us having a day out at Wembley.
     
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    Also won us a point at Scnuthorpe when we were almost dead an buried at HT!

    Came on and ran his blood to water - ended up drawing 2-2. Funnily enough, Grant McCann scored :)
     
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