Exclusive: Sunderland may be ‘looking to sell’ 2023 signing less than a year after joining.
Sunderland could now look to sell one player who only joined the club last summer.
Sunderland brought in eleven new players at the start of the season, as they parted ways with the likes of Ross Stewart, Lynden Gooch and Danny Batth.
The Black Cats welcomed a long list of young and inexperienced players to the squad, with very few of them managing to impress in their first campaign.
The likes of Luis Hemir Semedo and Eliezer Mayenda certainly didn’t fit the bill to take up the No.9 spot, while Nectarios Triantis and Nathan Bishop earned themselves very few chances in the first team.
However, there were some successes, with both Jobe Bellingham and Adil Aouchiche likely to make their mark on the senior team again next term.
The jury is still out in Timothee Pembele though, having spent the first half of the campaign on the sidelines after joining the club from Paris Saint-Germain.
Pembele has now made eight appearances in the Championship and was given a run of his first three starts last month, taking up the right wing-back role before returning to the bench in the final two fixtures.
The 21-year-old is currently facing a losing battle against Trai Hume for his spot in the team, with the Northern Ireland international one of Sunderland’s standout performers this season.
Sunderland have been ‘looking to sell’ Timothee Pembele
We spoke to Graeme Bailey about the future of Sunderland’s two right-backs, and he admitted that it could be the Frenchman who is sold this summer.
Bailey said: “”I think you’re going to lose Hume at right-back too. Well, they were looking to sell the lad you got from PSG [Pembele], but I think one of the right-backs will go. They had originally signed the PSG boy to succeed Hume, but he hasn’t got much of a look in, has he?”
