** Update: Will Buckley moves to Sunderland confirmed, three-year deal **

[Billy the Fish]

We fired him.... we could have accommodated him or reasoned. Showed what a good manager he is at Sunderland. I think he's the best manager we'll have for quite a while now.

Only after he told the chairman he wanted out and point blank refused to do his job. He engineered the whole situation himself.

 

[LamieRobertson]

I agree Chopper - and I'll be disappointed if he goes. He represents, for me, the hope that we had at the beginning
of the Amex era - and which sadly seems to now be a distant memory.

will always have a place in Albion folklore for those goals against Donny

 

[dadams2k11]

Virgo suggested he was on an EasyJet flight to Birmingham but how would he know his FINAL DESTINATION ?

I think he said flying over Birmingham. I may be wrong.

 

[Eeyore]

part exchange for Wickham, maybe

Wishful thinking. But then, its better than abject depression.

 

[GingerBeerMan]

I thought most on here reckoned that Buckley has declined in his time with the Albion. He arrived a highly rated and proven Championship player.

Van Dijk - other clubs, bigger than the Albion, wanted him and he chose one. Van Dijk and McCormack keep getting reeled out as the 2 players that "if only TB had given us even greater losses met out of his own pocket, that would have guaranteed us PL promotion". They were already highly regarded players and never came close to joining the smaller club after them, the Albion.

Never came close? If we upped our final bid by £200k we'd have got VVD. He was a youngster at the time so wages wouldn't have been a big problem. Would have bossed our defence for a few years then moved on for a handsome fee. You know this is all true

 

[Justice]

Only after he told the chairman he wanted out and point blank refused to do his job. He engineered the whole situation himself.

I know its history now but I did wonder if Bloom made the right decision by keeping him in charge for the run in.

 

[carteater]

West Ham put a big bid in for Wickham no chance he will come here.

saving him for us??

 

[Weststander]

Only after he told the chairman he wanted out and point blank refused to do his job. He engineered the whole situation himself.

Spot on. Don't let the Poyet ****lickers rewrite history.
As well as publicly lamenting about ceilings to budgets, and fancying the Reading and other posts.

 

[drew]

We fired him.... we could have accommodated him or reasoned. Showed what a good manager he is at Sunderland. I think he's the best manager we'll have for quite a while now.

How naive!

 

[Springal]

Spot on. Don't let the Poyet ****lickers rewrite history.
As well as publicly lamenting about ceilings to budgets, and fancying the Reading and other posts.

You have to admit though, Poyet was right about the ceiling ?

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

I think he said flying over Birmingham. I may be wrong.

William William Buckley flies down the wing for me

 

[sir albion]

I know its history now but I did wonder if Bloom made the right decision by keeping him in charge for the run in.

Looking at the side he picked that night he certainly knew what he was doing,should've got shot earlier.

 

[sir albion]

You have to admit though, Poyet was right about the ceiling ?

Poyet is one of those managers that wants big budgets to splash around,he doesn't give a shite about a clubs future or stability.

 

[chucky1973]

With Buckley and Ulloa gone we are now left with really shite embarrassing songs. this is more of a worry.

 

[Springal]

Poyet is one of those managers that wants big budgets to splash around,he doesn't give a shite about a clubs future or stability.

Where's your source for that? Buckley for £2.5m over Borini does not back that up

 

[Bladders]

With Buckley and Ulloa gone we are now left with really shite embarrassing songs. this is more of a worry.

We can string Go Left out for another 30 years.....

 

[sir albion]

Where's your source for that? Buckley for £2.5m over Borini does not back that up

Just you wait and see as its his first full season coming up

 

[Lower West Stander]

Perhaps we could transfer Barber and Burke?

May get a decent fee for them?

 

[Hyperion]

With Buckley and Ulloa gone we are now left with really shite embarrassing songs. this is more of a worry.

Aaaaaaaaadam, Aaaaaaaaaadam Chicksen runs down the wing for me.


Ohhhhhhhh, ohhhhhhhh, ohhhhhhhh, ohhhhhhhhh,
O'Grady O'Grady


Yeah you have a point.

 

[GoingUp]

So with Buckley looking ilke hes gone to, thats another one of our 'best' players gone. Our teams looking so bleak right about now.