Missing bullets

It's easy to romanticise the type of player we bought/were linked with under Sven, but today's news that El-Hadji Diouf is moving to Sunderland is quite relieving.

In April an Ian Ladyman piece in the Daily Mail said that Eriksson wanted him and the fee was likely to be in the region of £5million.

But today he is set to join a team to which he is well suited: Roy Keane's Sunderland. A lazy, unpleasant journeyman with a record of sustained mediocrity in the Premier League; Diouf has always been, in essence if not in fact, a Sunderland player.