Sunderland Can Replace Diallo With £11k-p/w “Crowd Favourite”

Sunderland narrowly missed out on promotion to the Premier League final month, however any hopes they’ve of difficult on the prime finish of the Championship subsequent season will come all the way down to their switch enterprise within the coming weeks.

Numerous key males have been strongly linked with strikes away, not least in-demand attacker Jack Clarke, whereas Adama Diallo has already returned to dad or mum membership Manchester United.

Sunderland are hopeful Diallo might but return to the Stadium of Gentle for a second season, however United are anticipated to offer the big-money signing an opportunity to prove himself within the Premier League.

That’s not to say Sunderland can’t discover an sufficient substitute, nevertheless, with quite a lot of choices accessible for affordable charges, or certainly as free brokers.

Bradley Dack is a kind of accessible totally free after his time at Blackburn Rovers formally got here to an end, and his time working below Tony Mowbray up to now makes him an apparent doable possibility for the Black Cats to signal.

As not too long ago as March, they had been touted as a doable possibility for the participant.

The place would Bradley Dack slot in at Sunderland?

Dack spent six seasons with Blackburn, the previous 5 of these within the Championship, racking up 173 appearances for the membership – a tally that might have been larger if not for a few serious injuries, which successfully price him two years of his profession.

The 29-year-old has not fairly been the identical participant since, explaining Blackburn’s choice to not set off a 12-month extension within the midfielder’s £11k-per-week contract, as per Capology.

Nonetheless, described as a “crowd favourite” by Blackburn chief Gregg Broughton following his departure from Ewood Park, Dack is a participant who excited on the pitch and likewise has an infectious persona off it.

Each components can come in useful for Mowbray, who was the person in cost when Dack joined Blackburn from Gillingham for a £750k payment in 2017 – cash that was very a lot effectively spent.

Ought to Mowbray repeat the trick this summer time, Dack can present Sunderland with objectives and creativity from attacking midfield, one thing they’ll in any other case drastically miss following Diallo’s departure.

Dack scored four goals and assisted yet one more in 27 Championship outings final season, although greater than half of these appearances got here instead.

When factoring in his per 90 minutes stats, FBref ranks Dack among the many top 22% amongst his positional friends when it comes to non-penalty objectives (0.30) over the previous 12 months. That’s not too dissimilar to Diallo, who boasts a determine of 0.35 in the identical metric.

Certainly, the pair are very alike when it comes to non-penalty anticipated objectives per 90 minutes (0.20 for Diallo in comparison with 0.23 for Dack) and goals per shot (0.16 v 0.17), suggesting they take up comparable positions and convert at an analogous price.

Whereas Diallo excels in areas equivalent to touches per 90 (61.9 in comparison with 42.2), Dack comes out on prime for take-on success price (50% v 47.3%) and completed through-balls (0.37 v 0.21).

Having dominated out a transfer for Dack within the January window because of monetary causes, a reunion with the free agent – a person Mowbray beforehand described as a “natural talent” – makes good sense this summer time for promotion-seeking Sunderland.