Champion League
Sunderland Can Resolve Problem Position With £6.1k-p/w Gem

Sunderland impressed by wrapping up nearly all of their switch enterprise early within the window, however supervisor Tony Mowbray has made it clear the membership are still in need of another striker.
Who’ve Sunderland signed?
The Black Cats have targeted youthful players to this point this summer time, with Nectarios Triantis, Jobe Bellingham, Luis ‘Hemir’ Semedo and Jenson Seelt all becoming a member of to this point.
Nevertheless, whereas Hemir arrives with a fame of being a vastly gifted striker following his time at Benfica, he has yet to play any senior football.
Consider Amad Diallo’s return to parent club Manchester United, plus the actual fact Ross Stewart goes to miss the start of the new season, and it’s clear why Mowbray has publicly acknowledged his want to herald one other attacking participant.
Ellis Simms appeared like being the perfect man to guide the road for Sunderland subsequent season after his vastly profitable spell on mortgage within the first half of the 2022-23 marketing campaign – when he netted seven goals in just 17 games – however Championship rivals Coventry City got to the Everton striker first.
That leaves Sunderland wanting far and huge for one more striker, and it might be that they flip to one among their earlier targets, with the East Anglian Each day Occasions reporting earlier this 12 months that Mowbray is a fan of Peterborough United’s Jonson Clarke-Harris.
What number of targets has Jonson Clarke-Harris scored?
Clarke-Harris doesn’t precisely match the profile for the kind of participant Sunderland have beforehand focused, given the £6.1k-per-week striker will flip 29 later this month.
Nevertheless, that’s arguably the height age for a striker, whereas Clarke-Harris’s expertise – and never least his goalscoring capability – could possibly be an enormous consider what Black Cats supporters will hope is one other promotion push this coming season.
Certainly, Clarke-Harris has twice gained the Golden Boot award in League One – a division he’s clearly too good for.
The one-cap Jamaica worldwide jointly-led the scoring charts again within the third tier final season with 26 targets in 46 regular-season video games, but Peterborough by some means missed out on promotion after capitulating in their play-off semi-final with Sheffield Wednesday.
Clarke-Harris has over 400 senior appearances to his identify, having began his profession by changing into Coventry’s youngest-ever player aged 16 in 2010, and has scored 138 times.
The Leicester-born striker averaged 0.59 goals per 90 minutes in the course of the common League One season final day out, as per FBref, which is a tally only Stewart (0.86) can better amongst Sunderland gamers, albeit in a division greater.
It will be straightforward to dismiss Clarke-Harris as a participant who can carry out in League One however is unable to take the step as much as the Championship, yet he scored 12 goals in a poor Peterborough staff the final time he performed at that degree. To place that in some perspective, only Diallo (13) bettered that amongst Sunderland gamers final season.
Hailed as a “special talent” throughout his time at Rotherham United by then-manager Steve Evans, it could be that Clarke-Harris now has an opportunity to point out precisely what he’s able to for a staff battling to earn promotion from the Championship.
Such a signing would then be an answer to the Black Cats’ drawback place…