Sunderland Can Complete Spree With Move For £15k-p/w Ace

No Championship workforce has been as proactive in the summertime switch window as Sunderland, who continued their spending spree by bringing in Jenson Seelt from PSV over the weekend in a reported £1.7m deal.

Dutch defender Seelt is the Black Cats’ fourth signing of the shut season, following within the steps of Luis ‘Hemir’ Semedo, Nectar Triantis and Jobe Bellingham.

Tony Mowbray’s aspect don’t seem to have completed their recruitment drive simply but, although, with loads extra names being linked with a change to the Stadium of Gentle.

Joe Gelhardt is a kind of on Mowbray’s radar following a spell on mortgage on Wearside final season, with the skilled supervisor revealing in April he would be interested in landing the Leeds United teenager on a everlasting deal.

What can Joe Gelhardt deliver to Sunderland?

Having been restricted to just one Premier League start within the first half of the 2022-23 season, Gelhardt was given the possibility to play extra recurrently on mortgage with Sunderland within the closing 4 months of the marketing campaign.

The 21-year-old scored three times and assisted three extra in 20 league outings for the Black Cats, who narrowly missed out on promotion through the play-offs.

Gelhardt’s return of 0.45 combined goals and assists per 90 minutes, as per FBref, was higher than that of extremely regarded Patrick Roberts (0.41) and solely barely decrease than Jack Clarke – a goal for quite a few Premier League golf equipment – at 0.48, albeit the latter enjoying 27 video games extra in a present of his consistency.

Having solely turned 21 final month, it’s clear that Gelhardt is a participant who has his greatest years forward of him however is already displaying immense expertise.

“What a participant this child goes to be,” talkSPORT host Adrian Durham said in October 2021. “He was astonishing for Leeds on the weekend. He ought to be concerned in much more video games. I believe [Marcelo Bielsa’s] been a bit reluctant to make use of him due to his age, however get him in there.”

As Mowbray pointed out in direction of the top of final season, Leeds’ relegation from the Premier League may match towards his aspect, with the Whites maybe trying towards the £15k-per-week teenager to spearhead their drive again to the highest flight.

However Sunderland ought to on the very least check the waters to signal a participant who averaged 2.48 shots per 90 minutes for them final season (solely Ross Stewart with 3.71 can higher that amongst gamers nonetheless on the membership), in addition to leading the way for fouls won per 90 (2.56), each highlighting his capacity to become involved in play.

The England U20 worldwide nonetheless has loads of areas to enhance on, equivalent to finding the net from more of his attempts (his 0.09 objectives per shot was bettered by 9 Sunderland gamers final time period), however he’s the right sort of participant for Mowbray to proceed to mould.

With 4 new signings already within the squad, every able to problem for a first-team spot, it might be that Gelhardt is the ultimate piece of this spending spree for Mowbray.