To be fair to Fletcher he's a decent all round player who has great heading ability and a good eye for goal. It's a lot but then as others have said they paid 8mil so they'll want more given he's been pretty successful.
Steven Fletcher (the other Fletcher, not Darren Fletcher) switch - imminent
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Wolves paid £6.5m and he's a pretty good player. With decent service he'd score a good amount of goals, I reckon.
Decent player, good for around 10-12 goals per season.
Even with the Wolves, he was averaging 12 goals a season. Sunderland is definitely better with better players and better service. If they don't get Brendter, then he could do a chunk of the scoring for them with Sessegnon playing behind him.
Sunderland have tabled a further bid of £12m for him.
What is it with Martin O'Neill and buying decent players for hugely inflated fees? You could have picked up Cisse for that with a little bit of research.
What is it with Martin O'Neill and buying decent players for hugely inflated fees? You could have picked up Cisse for that with a little bit of research.
Has it not been a trend for Sunderland, in general - over the past 5 or so years.
Yes, it's really holding them back. It's actually quite remarkable when you look at the expenditures of teams like Sunderland and Aston Villa over the years, and what that's done for them.
Sunderland sign a massive amount of players, the likes of lorik Cana came in for one season. Would be interesting to see how much they have spent over the past 5 years. Michael Turner, Craig Gordon, Conor Wickham, etc, all cost far too much.
Didn't they bid £12m last week, or was the figure lower than was reported at the time?
£10m has gone to £12m.
As someone (rightly in my opinion) said on here the other week: if Wolves sell three or four of their higher paid players for good fees they should easily be able to come out of that division by using the money cleverly.
Sell Fletcher for £12 million, get a few loans in to strengthen CM and use that money to strengthen the defence and they should be fine. They still have Doyle, O'Hara, Jarvis and have already signed Sigurðarson to strengthen their attack.
Hard luck for Wolves - owe 15% of the fee to Burnley. Not much money in it for them when you consider what they paid.
Done deal to Sunderland pending medical. £14 million.
Christ, 14m for Steven Fletcher.
Jarvis might follow him out of Wolves if Solbakken gets it right. He said that he would love to keep them both, but that they didnt expect them to stay after the relegation and to keep them would be an unexpected bonus. Think he will manage to replace them both with very decent players, concidering the players he's already brought to the club.
O'Neill has a British fetish. Mad money for a decent if unspectacular player.
Holy feck. 14M!! 
That's ridiculous.
That's ridiculous.Couldn't he have got Bendtner for like 5 million?
He didn't want to get into a bidding war with Barca.
He'll get double figures in the league, relatively young. Not worth £14m but not the worst buy in the world.
He''ll score goals but it makes the Van Persie deal seem less of a rip-off now in context
Overpriced but it seems like a needs must situation for Sunderland.
Why do Sunderland overpay for everyone?
How else would they get people to come to sunderland?
It's the classic O'Neill overpay for the British player transfer.
He's like the old Mark Hughes.
Martin O'Neill 
And people still want him for the United job, feck he'd be worse than Dalglish with transfers.
And people still want him for the United job, feck he'd be worse than Dalglish with transfers.fecking stupid bump.
Kidnap him?
14mil is ridiculous to be fair. This is a perfect example of why so many managers avoid British players.
With some research they could have surely done better than that or even taken a punt on Jordan Rhodes.
With some research they could have surely done better than that or even taken a punt on Jordan Rhodes.
What sort of excuse is this? Do all small clubs overplay for the players they want?
Is Fletcher more likely to accept a move when it's £14m than when it's £7m? The money doesn't go to him anyway.
14 million for a british striker but 2 million for a goalscoring midfielder from Spain - Michu. I really don't get this.
Has anyone else scored a goal for them except him ?
Class. Out and out goalscorer.
Levein is an idiot.
4 touches, 4 goals. Lethal.
Looking like decent value at £14 million now.
really impressed by him so far. Honestly didn't expect him to be banging them in on a regular basis, although to be fair the PL has just begun and I doubt he'll be able to keep it up for the entire season.