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That's just mental
Arsenal just spent £50m on a centre back from Brighton

1. Agree to disagree.
2. Again, none of these players we played last night are any more or less CL level than our side. Any English CL side has the ability to go and spend 30-50m on a CB to improve their squad for the CL group stages, so that's a pointless comparison. Although I imagine it's part of the reasoning behind why Arsenal just spent 50m on someone from Brighton, to become a top 4 side again. "Proven CL Level players" from Holland/Belgium/Nordic leagues don't really exist, there's really only Ajax who qualify routinely for the CL and Club Brugge who just sold a defender for around 20m - this is way beyond our means.
We also don't have money, the club has openly said on several occasions that players must be sold to balance the books. 
 

We should be signing more players from Nordic/Balkan leagues….if Alfie had been in England we would have never got him. Players playing in England have inflated values because of the EPL money etc. We should be selling players to England not buying them.

So our rock in defence can't come from an EPL club but our star striker can come from HJK? 

Irrelevant.

How did the club not know the minimum/maximum ban rules considering how long this investigation has been ongoing? 
Pretty strange to get something like that wrong.

What I find odd is that he's got less games for a supposed deliberate assault than Roofe, whose 'assault' was obviously non-deliberate.

Tbf I think the ban on kudela is fine. 10 games is enough. However, club should be fined €1m euros as punishment if uefa really want to kick out racism from the game.
If, big if, kamara has assaulted him then unfortunately there's no choice but to ban him for 3 games. However, even with the circumstances (victim of racist abuse obviously) how can you justify someone hitting another player off the pitch getting a shorter ban than a player commiting an (accidental) hard challenge? Even by rulebooks, one was premeditated, one was accidental. Ridiculous decision making at UEFA, surprise surprise 

Maybe if he had chinned him on the pitch they would have been more likely to minimize any punishment but probably not well after the game. 

Trippier got a bigger ban for posting in a group chat he was signing for Atletico Madrid.

He will always be hugely popular in Sunderland for his efforts with Bradley Lowery, the young boy with cancer.