Are Sunderland unsettled at the moment after Tony Mowbray summer talk?

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00:00 everyone can see that it's a little bit unsettled at the moment.

00:04 The transfer window is still open, the speculation over certain players, the squad is incomplete.

00:09 Has the uncertainty and the speculation from the end of last season ever been 110% resolved?

00:16 Probably not. And that's not to say that there's a major issue or anything,

00:23 but I think there is a bit of uncertainty that's lingered from last year.

00:26 Do you remember when we spoke about the club missing a couple of good opportunities to just put it to bed straight away?

00:34 I think so.

00:35 We said absolutely, Sunderland do not have to comment on every little rumour that goes around,

00:41 because if they did, they'd probably get nothing done. Completely fair enough.

00:44 But that in the summer did seem to gather legs pretty quickly.

00:49 You had respected journalist Fabrizio Romano tweeting about it, and it was a hot topic of conversation.

00:55 And yes, it petered out, but the club never really put it to bed.

01:00 Not really. And I do think that's left a little bit of a...

01:04 And again, I hope this doesn't come across too dramatic, because it's really not meant to be.

01:09 I think it's just left something a little bit in the air, I think.

01:13 You did have a few mid-rains at the end of the day.

01:15 Yeah, I think so. And I think when you couple that with the uncertainty over some of the players,

01:21 which as we've discussed before, isn't necessarily the club's fault, it's just the nature of the business.

01:28 I think a lot of people say something isn't quite right.

01:33 And I kind of get that without being overly dramatic about it.

01:36 I think it is just a consequence of uncertainty.

01:39 If you look at the second half of last year, the way that group came together really strongly,

01:43 seemed to really bond, had so much energy and fight in every single game, pretty much.

01:48 I think it is quite hard at the moment for Sunderland to achieve that.

01:52 We're always guilty of being in the Sunderland bubble, so we only ever see it through the Sunderland prism.

01:56 I know for a fact that there are so many clubs up and down the country who are in a similar position.

02:01 So, as we said last week, we'll say it again, shut the transfer window before the season starts.

02:08 It's unfair on everybody.

02:11 So, yeah, I can't remember exactly what question we started off with here.

02:15 Yeah, there's definitely I think, we're not there yet.