Sunderland are actually reportedly a part of a seven-club battle to signal an enormous younger expertise this summer season, with six different English golf equipment additionally within the combine to snap him up.
Sunderland agree transfer for Xhaka
The Black Cats are edging nearer to their return to the Premier League, with their opening conflict at dwelling to West Ham now lower than three weeks away, arriving on August sixteenth.
Regis Le Bris remains to be eyeing vital summer season switch enterprise for Sunderland, with extra high quality required inside his squad, and Granit Xhaka is now on the verge of becoming a member of from Bayer Leverkusen, in keeping with Sky Sports activities reporter Keith Downie. The Swiss will be a part of on a three-year deal, arriving for an preliminary price of £13m, with a complete of £4.3m in add-ons for the previous Arsenal midfielder.
In the meantime, the Black Cats are additionally considered pushing to signal Galatasaray ahead Nicolo Zaniolo, with the Italian incomes some Premier League expertise on mortgage at Aston Villa previously.
New attacking signings look like the order of the day for Sunderland after Xhaka is signed, and now a younger participant with a doubtlessly huge future forward of him has been linked with a swap to the Stadium of Mild.
In accordance with a recent declare from Soccer Insider, Sunderland have “enquired” concerning the availability of younger Metz striker Idrissa Gueye, who’s valued at £17m by his present membership.
The Black Cats are removed from the one membership within the race to usher in the 18-year-old, nevertheless, with Liverpool, West Ham, Crystal Palace, Brighton, Southampton and Ipswich City all talked about as potential suitors.
Gueye is described as “one of many hottest properties in Europe” within the report, so Sunderland beating the opposite six golf equipment to his signature, amongst others dotted round Europe, can be an actual assertion of intent by the Premier League newcomers.
The Metz ace has already scored 5 objectives in 20 appearances for the French outfit at senior stage, to not point out already successful one cap for Senegal at worldwide stage at a young age.
Gueye would not essentially arrive at Sunderland as a extra polished attacking participant like Zaniolo, however he can be seen as a footballer with a excessive ceiling who might develop into one thing particular over time.
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The Black Cats have included a buy-back clause.
Admittedly, £17m is so much to pay for a participant who remains to be solely 18 years of age, but when the Black Cats see him as somebody who can develop into a celebrity on the Stadium of Mild finally, he may very well be value each penny.
