Will Buckley responds to Sami's comments

[sparkie]

Is it just coincidence that the players Gus wants to sign from us go on the sulk ?

No doubt it is, but those who go elsewhere seem to have handled themselves better ?

 

[kevtherev]

Him and Gus are made for each other, then

Absolutely, two peas in a pod.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Eh. Seems pretty reasonable to me.

I was thinking exactly the same

 

[Pavilionaire]

Buckley is an unprofessional fool. There will come a time when he will have reached his peak and will have to move to a club down the pecking order, probably on a lower salary. Will he be arsed to put in the effort, or just happy to pick up a pay cheque and lie on the physio's couch?

Those articles have just confirmed what my eyes were telling me but my heart was denying - I longed for his shit form to be injury-related, but that slump as we now know is because he wasn't giving it 100%. Funnily enough, all of the Derby players WERE giving it 100%. I won't forget his late miss vs. Blackpool costing us 2 points - that was my low point of the regular season.

 

[Biscuit]

Footballers are such dickheads now a days.

Why could he not have just left a legend, rather than sulk off. Pathetic.

 

[NS Herald]

Lost respect for Buckley, Bridcutt and to an extent Ulloa for not wanting to play for the team. All 3 you could tell weren't interested except for picking up their salary and exorbitant premiership wages.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Footballers are such dickheads now a days.

Why could he not have just left a legend, rather than sulk off. Pathetic.

I totally agree with this point. Most players will have retired in their mid-thirties and have 50-odd years to reflect on a career in which they'll have probably played a meaningful amount of matches for 3 or 4 clubs. If they conduct themselves well they're welcomed and adored for the rest of their lives by those clubs, but give a couple of dodgy interviews and inappropriate goal celebrations and they've blown it.

What is SO hard about showing a bit of respect to your former club and thereby preserving your legacy? You idiot Buckley.

 

[Puppet Master]

So he quite possibly cost us promotion then.

Seeya Will.

 

[Stat Brother]

I'm not happy with the £2.5m is a great price argument.
Even less so now we know he was 'phoning it in'.

As said before Buckley is either worth £0 or £10+m.

He's a game changer, a goal scorer and a match winner (when he wants to play).
Or he's a knackered pit pony.

The one thing he's not is a so-so make weight player worth a loose change amount of money.

 

[Silk]

Poor sod. Had two good seasons with us, anyone would be unsettled by premier league interest, he is only human. At least he is being honest. I for one hope he does well, while suspecting he may not.

 

[London Irish]

Shame a player associated with such an important moment in our recent history does this, it was the kind of crap a waster like Kazim-Richards pulled

 

[slartibartfast]

Exiled Geordie (Albion season ticket holder since the 90s)- Buckley, Bridcutt and Poyet have all joined the forces of darkness, sold their souls, and so can kiss any good will I have toward them goodbye. I hope they have a shit shit season, collectively.

 

[Phat Baz 68]

So much for loyalty ha ha !!! Good riddance mush !1

 

[catfish]

It's especially disappointing considering he gave us one of the most memorable moments in the club's history.

 

[Ernest]

Bridcutt hardly sets the world on fire at Sunderland and Sicknote Buckley needs to up his game considerably to become a Premier League regular, hopefully they will both sink without a trace

 

[Hotchilidog]

Lost respect for Buckley, Bridcutt and to an extent Ulloa for not wanting to play for the team. All 3 you could tell weren't interested except for picking up their salary and exorbitant premiership wages.

Wouldn't include Ulloa in this, he played his proverbials off last season whilst not fully fit, AND he fought his way through the Derby fans to applaud us at Pride Park, class act.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Never sure why people take these articles so seriously. How do you know he didn't mention Brighton, but being a Sunderland paper they chose to omit it as of no interest to their readers?

Just looks like a player being honest that he wanted to move up a league to a bigger club. He's hardly gone and spat on the Albion badge has he.

This. I can't believe how bitter some fans are. All players move at sometime or another, and if it is to a higher division, of course they want to go. Only fans are loyal.

 

[WhingForPresident]

**** him, what a shit attitude to have. Would rather we mugged off Poyet and Sunderland for all we could and left Buckley to rot in the reserves if they didn't want to meet our asking price (didn't he still have four years left on his contract?).

After all the opportunities he has had as well despite having one good game in every 20..

Begs the question of just how often he actually was 'injured'...

 

[WATFORD zero]

Will always remember him as a huge part of that day.

However, as i've said elsewhere, i'm not convinced that he or Bridcutt are going to make a significant impact at Sunderland and when (and it will be when) Gus throws his toys out they could find themselves on the wrong side of the sunderland fans. I'm sure the money will help though

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

"Buckley was Poyet’s first signing as Brighton manager after arriving in a £1m move from Watford in the summer of 2011 and the Oldham-born wideman is glad to be reunited with the Uruguayan again."

Great journalism.

Precisely. Er, Calderon, Brezovan, Barnes, Holroyd, Hoskins, etc. As for Buckley, well rid of in my view. Well done DB, PB or whoever else helped to do the deal.