Sunderland had a mare with Tore Andre Flo

Sunderland supervisor Tony Mowbray has been having to take care of taking part in Championship matches with out having a pure quantity 9 accessible to him.

The Black Cats boss has been with out Ross Stewart and Ellis Simms in current weeks and that has pressured him to play the likes of Elliot Embleton, Amad Diallo, and Alex Pritchard within the ahead positions.

Stewart has been a talisman since arriving on the Stadium of Gentle in 2021 and his absence has been felt because the membership have failed to attain in three of the six matches performed since his harm.

The Scotland worldwide has scored 34 objectives in 72 aggressive video games for the Black Cats since becoming a member of from Ross County, together with five objectives in seven Championship outings this season.

He has been an outstanding signing able by which the membership haven’t at all times had the very best of luck, or judgement, with in years passed by.

One striker who Sunderland had a nightmare with was Norweigan worldwide Tore Andre Flo, who arrived from Glasgow Rangers in the summertime of 2002.

Was Tore Andre Flo an enormous flop?

The Black Cats reportedly paid a charge of £6.75m to signal the centre-forward and then-manager Peter Reid hailed the attacker’s skill, saying: “Tore has many qualities I search for in a striker. He has the flexibility to create possibilities, is sweet within the air and has wonderful ending expertise.”

He arrived after scoring 22 objectives in 46 matches for the Gers and had scored 50 objectives in 162 video games for Chelsea previous to transferring to Scotland.

Flo was unable to copy his goalscoring kind from his earlier golf equipment as he struggled badly on the pitch within the Premier League, scoring four objectives in 29 appearances in the course of the 2002/03 marketing campaign.

The striker had discovered the again of the online each 2.09 and three.24 video games for Rangers and Chelsea respectively earlier than signing for Sunderland and you could possibly forgive supporters for anticipating an identical dialog price from him on Wearside.

As an alternative, he scored as soon as each 7.25 matches for the Black Cats and the workforce ended up ending bottom of the English top-flight with 19 factors.

Sunderland wanted to reduce their wage invoice following their relegation to the Championship and Flo was allowed to depart on a cut-price deal to Serie A aspect Siena in the summertime of 2003.

The Chronicle reported that he left for a charge that was believed to be barely lower than £1m, which meant that the membership misplaced a minimum of £4.5m on Flo within the house of a 12 months.

Reid, due to this fact, had a nightmare with the signing of the Norway worldwide as he failed to provide constant high quality on the pitch within the Premier League and left for considerably lower than what he was introduced in for from Rangers.