If yuh moving on, yuh move on for better..
Spurs and Villa is better...
Birmingham and Stoke is lateral at best, likely worse.
Kev, Kuranyi is an established German striker, strong player up front and a good finisher. Never really thought he was up to the required level in the German national team setup, but still whats not in doubt is he gets goals and would be a very good coup for Sunderland. As a matter of fact, I kinda surprised he willing to go there, no offence, but for a player of his calibre it seems like a step down to me.
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Interesting article in the Guardian, the reason I say its interesting as the writer has contacts at teh club and is usually not far off, she is always complimentary about the club and hence seems to get the inside track, so something maybe going on and I might be wrong again.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jan/07/kenwyne-jones-sunderland-birmingham-citySunderland prepared to put Kenwyne Jones up for auction
• Birmingham City willing to pay £11m for Trinidadian
• Centre-forward also being looked at by Stoke and Spurs
Sunderland are prepared to sell Kenwyne Jones this month but will not part with the striker until they have signed a replacement. In the interim, they hope to provoke an auction.
Birmingham City are willing to pay up to £11m for the Trinidadian but, with Stoke City keen on a centre-forward who is once again being eyed by Tottenham Hotspur, their manager, Alex McLeish, is likely to be kept waiting for an answer.
Much may depend on Sunderland's proposed signing of Kevin Kurányi, the former Germany striker. The 27-year-old Schalke 04 forward, who will be out of contract in the summer, is close to a £3.5m move to the Stadium of Light after being tracked by Steve Bruce for some time.
Kurányi, who was born in Brazil and has Panamanian and German-Hungarian parentage, scored 19 goals in 52 appearances for Germany before falling out with the national coach, Joachim Löw in 2008.
Regarded as "talented but temperamental" in Germany, the 6ft 3in Kurányi, fluent in five languages, is said to want to join Sunderland but his £70,000-a-week wage demands could yet prove a stumbling block.
Selling Jones, who signed a lucrative long-term contract last January after Sunderland rejected a £12m bid from Spurs, would represent a considerable gamble on Bruce's part. Although the striker, recruited from Southampton by Roy Keane, can be virtually unplayable on his day, Sunderland's latest manager has been unimpressed by his attitude this season.
While Jones is believed to be interested in relocating to Birmingham, the prospect of joining Stoke is thought to be less appealing. Bruce is enticed by the prospect of taking one or more of Tony Pulis's players in part-exchange, particularly if the Turkey international Tuncay Sanli were part of any deal.
Sunderland's manager explored the possibility of signing Tuncay from Middlesbrough last summer and remains a big admirer of a forward who has experienced mixed fortunes at Stoke.
Should Jones move to Birmingham, Teemu Tainio, the midfielder on a year-long loan at St Andrew's from the Stadium of Light, would almost certainly have that agreement cut short and return to Wearside. Bruce has been light in central midfield at times this season but Tainio is sidelined after undergoing knee surgery in November.
The Sunderland manager, meanwhile, is stepping up a long-standing pursuit of Maynor Figueroa, the Wigan Athletic left-back but the board are reluctant to meet Wigan's current £7m asking price.