{"id":441627,"date":"2011-06-15T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/15\/sunderland-chairman-niall-quinn-hits-out-at-press-following-asamoah-gyan-exit-reports\/"},"modified":"2011-06-15T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T12:08:00","slug":"sunderland-chairman-niall-quinn-hits-out-at-press-following-asamoah-gyan-exit-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/15\/sunderland-chairman-niall-quinn-hits-out-at-press-following-asamoah-gyan-exit-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn hits out at press following Asamoah Gyan exit reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Edward Tibbles<\/h3>\n<h4>15 Jun 2011 13:08:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"80.8886333771\">\n<div readability=\"16.3206521739\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Niall Quinn , Chairman of Sunderland (Getty Images) \" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/115200\/115249_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Niall Quinn , Chairman of Sunderland (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/537\/sunderland\">Sunderland<\/a> chairman Niall Quinn has hit out at the press following reports that the club are looking to sell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/ghana\/12359\/asamoah-gyan\">Asamoah Gyan<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reports suggested that the Black Cats had offered the striker to a number of &#8216;top clubs&#8217;, and Quinn sees the speculation as harmful to the club&#8217;s relationship with the fans.<\/p>\n<p><span>The chairman said on the club&#8217;s official website: &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry that our fans have to read the endless speculation that appears in the press at this time of year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Normally we don&#8217;t comment on any of it as there&#8217;s so much &#8211; for instance we&#8217;ve been linked to over 40 players in the last month or so alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;However, the suggestion that we have spoken to an agent to sell this player on our behalf is embarrassing to all concerned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I hope our fans would be smart enough to realise that this is probably some other club or outside agents&#8217; way of attempting to destabilise our relationship with one of our players.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Quinn also said that any new signings this summer will be made official on the club&#8217;s website first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;What I can say is that we are in a number of meaningful negotiations to bring players in and when there&#8217;s anything definitive to report it will be on our club website for our fans to read,&#8221; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><em>Our<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93900\/93900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"11\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0provides the best breaking news online and our\u00a0<\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93800\/93899.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"49\" height=\"10\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0football fan community is unmatched worldwide. Never miss a thing again!<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>See original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/15\/2533097\/sunderland-chairman-niall-quinn-hits-out-at-press-following\" title=\"Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn hits out at press following Asamoah Gyan exit reports\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn hits out at press following Asamoah Gyan exit reports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Edward Tibbles 15 Jun 2011 13:08:00 Niall Quinn , Chairman of Sunderland (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn has hit out at the press following reports that the club are looking to sell Asamoah Gyan . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":441629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-441627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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