Sunderland want Pelter

Sunderland want Pelter

Sunderland have taken Trinidad & Tobago defender Silvio Spann on trial and could sign New Zealand star Jack Pelter. (Telegraph)

http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/56887,pelter-signs-brockie-to-trial-at-sunderland.aspx

http://www.safc.com/news/?page_id=12713

Pelter is set to play in a reserves friendly game as well. So maybe we are going to see a signing soon. There giving him the opportunities.

 http://www.thefootballnetwork.net/boards/read/s277.htm?447,8103206      Leeds fans are hoping he will not be another Danny Hay. lol

Sounds like Roy was impressed. The fans on the Mackem forum thought he was poo.

Yeah!! It is weird how there are two sides to the story.  Like I said yesterday I was looking on the Sunderland forums and the fans all bagged the guy.  I guess time will tell.

I guess when you have just been prmoted to the Premiership the last thing the fans want is a signing from an amateur team in NZ.

This from the brilliant 'Fiver' from the UK Guardian paper - subscribe if you don't already, very funny writers, arrives overnight 6 days a week in the Inbox. Go to this link to view online and i think you can sign up from here... http://football.guardian.co.uk/fiver/0,,,00.html

lunatic's been on the money so far...and if Mr Keane was as impressed as it seems it could be a goer

The match report I read said he had ample opportunity to impress in the half he played but failed to do so.

That is a little interesting article.  Maybe Roy Keane can do something good with them.  Does anyone find it weird that Brockie has been offered a trial?  Thoughts??

Brockie to Sunderland? Bollocks.

This (Borckie to the premier league)i was hinted at in another thread a couple of weeks ago. I was wondering who the club in question was. . . . .  

Lunatic of NZ... as opposed to Lunatic of Sydney...  someone here is on the wind.

Maybe Roys old mate, Dwight Yorke, had a word in his ear about Brockie?

Wonder if it will make the news if Pelter does sign?

This from the Daily Mail in the UK...

The Brockie part has got to be a long shot.

Brockie is a current international and young...now im not saying he's up to EPL level, but think about it, sign him for free, pay him stuff all, and sell him off to a lower league team for 200k (example) pro football is all about $$$$


if Keane wants Pelter he'll get him. what kid would say no to that sorta opportunity?

I actually think that what happened was Pelter got sent off in the first World Cup qualifying match and had a shocker of a game and then they paired Edginton and  Boxall together and from then on they were the preferred Centre Backs on form and there performance also I think Stu Jacobs must have been worried about Pelters lack of pace at the World Cup cause thats were it looks like Edginton excelled he might not be a ball player but he is quick and his determination saves him alot. I would be amazed if Sunderland sign him as he would get absolutely killed in the Premier league by most imagine some of those guys running at him. But I do wish him the best and if he can pick something up then thats great for the kid, and surely we can get others over there! Am I right in thinking he is of British decent like his parents or he might have been born there meaning he would get/have a passport already?

Yeah, I think I heard on another thread that Pelter might have been born in the UK and his parents are british. So he should be sweet in that area.

If he does sign I guarantee he will be loaned out to another team. Give him a season somewhere like Barnsley and see what he makes of it. Hammer Head2007-07-24 23:13:52

Even if he plays in their reserve team.

Good point LondonChris.  Even just the trial period with Roy Keane and the lads will benefit him. 

would that be such a bad thing? the training and competitivness would be better than the NZFC and the media coverage better than USA college football.

he's young, not many guys his age hold a regular spot in the EPL (i know theres a few, but very, very few)...good things take time

I'm pretty sure that our little belter, Pelter was born in the UK and came to NZ as a 10 year old.  Good luck to him in getting a contract if he can.  Roy Keane is no mug! 

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/unknown/viewarticle.aspx?id=526338 seems he is doing some good things at the black cats, despite what i have read on some sunderland forums?

Good work finding those articles "Andfieldhard".

those are some good links...i wonder how strong the interest from Everton would've been/is....

New Zealand U/20 defender Jack Pelter has signed a 3 year deal with Sunderland in the English Premier League. Meanwhile, team mate, and All Whites fringe player Jeremy Brockie has been asked to trial by Roy Keane.

From the Aust 442 site, and posted by 'Lunatic of NZ'. This true mate??

Huge news if true.

That comment in 442 was made 2-3 weeks ago. I don't think anything has been official yet.

 he still trialling there?