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Tony Ayton retweeted
I cannot believe that Jules Ahoka had only played 4 senior professional games before joining Sunderland in a £8.6m deal this summer.
Today, brought off the bench after just 4 minutes to replace Sunderland's captain Granit Xhaka...
He's dominated the midfield battle in the opening 45 minutes, against a midfield of Moises Caicedo and Romeo Lavia, two midfielders signed for £168m, and 91 capped Jordan Henderson.
It's only 45 minutes, and there's a long way to go...
But he's been central to Sunderland's best performance in weeks!
Tony Ayton retweeted
Jules Ahoka vs Chelsea ! 💎
MOTM 🏆
🎥 @mcimali
Tony Ayton retweeted
It’s even worse when watching it back.
Jarred Gillet looked at this and thought, ‘Aye, Free Kick to Chelsea’
Bloke is the worst official in the league. And it’s not even close.
Tony Ayton retweeted
The sooner Nordi and BDB are back the better.
There must be better options than Xhaka. Not interested. Not leading.
Danso & Alderete aren’t the answer. 09 better than the pair of them.
Having Diarra available would be useful.
And need some luck.
Tony Ayton retweeted
That was awful,there’s no sugarcoating it. Slow,lethargic and defensively an absolute shambles. There is absolutely nothing to feel any bit of happiness about in that game. Just miles off what it should be,there wasn’t any real sort of fight,playing with a real whimper #SAFC
Tony Ayton retweeted
Last season we pinged the ball about with speed and momentum. This season nothing, so slow.
Last season we were defensively strong, this season I could score against us. Those two views alone make us a wholly different team but with mostly the same players. So disappointing.
Tony Ayton retweeted
This was potentially the biggest, most exciting and transformative #SAFC season of many of our lifetimes.
Instead, it feels increasingly like an opportunity squandered and a truly generational chance wasted.
Shove the “advanced metrics” up your arse — we’re in trouble.
Tony Ayton retweeted
Better in the second half but still nowhere near good enough. That first half was embarrassing, absolutely no desire to win the game or even to get a goal. Just slow, meandering football and waiting for the opposition to do something.
No positive response from game to game.
Tony Ayton retweeted
Rotos de dolor, con un nudo en la garganta y sin poder creer que esto sea verdad, desde el CD Tenerife comunicamos el trágico fallecimiento, este martes, día 3 de noviembre de 2026, a las 8:00 horas, de Jesús de Miguel Alameda.
No hay palabras de consuelo; no hay absolutamente nada que mitigue este sentimiento repleto de tristeza. Estamos junto a su desolada familia, junto a sus seres queridos, junto a todo el tinerfeñismo que hoy llora por este cruel desenlace.
La familia de Jesús de Miguel agradece todas y cada una de las muestras de apoyo recibidas, e igualmente solicita, de corazón, máximo respeto a su privacidad, en estos terribles momentos.
🖤 DEP
Tony Ayton retweeted
We have the 8th most big chances in the league.
We’ve missed 74% of them.
Astonishing
#SAFC
Tony Ayton retweeted
Instead of such negativity please help us share love and positivity by sharing my beautiful boys picture ♥️
#CancerHasNoColours
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Tony Ayton retweeted
It’s the standard of goals we’re conceding…
It’s just so, so poor.
Individual errors, lack of effort to make up for a mistake, sloppy in possession, silly red cards.
We’ve gone from one of the best drilled and most organised defences in the league, that was the bedrock of a side that took points off 18 of 19 opponents last year, to one of the worst.
Tony Ayton retweeted
Six goals from individual errors this season in the Premier League…
#SAFC
Tony Ayton retweeted
Not for the first time this season, Granit Xhaka has been a passenger off the ball this afternoon.
He’s far from the only one at fault, but his performance has been well below the standard you’d expect from Sunderland’s captain.
#SAFC
Tony Ayton retweeted
Le Bris and Sunderland might be 20th as it stands but they reduce games to fine margins and excel in all game-states as they press man-to-man high, defend zonally low, can build against a zonal press or play direct against a man-to-man press, and attack well in a 3-1-6 with decent quality + profile balance across the thirds.
Combine that with the support of the fans at the Stadium of Light and I don’t expect them to be relegated this season.
I actually back them to go far in Europe and to stay up comfortably.
They have a talented and big squad, even if the summer window just gone was a little underwhelming.
Tony Ayton retweeted
😂 Two Sunderland fans in the Lech Poznań end. Absolute madmen. Anyone know who they are?
#SAFC
