Sunderland: Is Chris Rigg Corry Evans 2.0?

Sunderland sporting director Kristjaan Speakman was a busy man throughout the January switch window as he introduced in plenty of gamers to bolster the squad.

The likes of Isaac Lihadji, Joe Gelhardt, Pierre Ekwah and Joe Anderson got here by the door on the Stadium of Gentle so as to add extra younger prospects to Tony Mowbray‘s gifted group of gems.

Speakman has packed the Black Cats’ squad with gamers who’ve the scope to enhance and develop within the years to return, and this technique may assist the membership to revenue sooner or later if these kids are in a position to fulfill their potential.

Nonetheless, there’s one participant who was already on the membership who might be a future star of the Sunderland first-team and alleviate the necessity to additional dip into the switch market in the summertime – Chris Rigg.

Will Corry Evans signal a brand new contract at Sunderland?

Corry Evans is out of contract on the finish of the season and it has been reported that the membership are set to supply the skilled midfielder an extension on his present phrases.

Nonetheless, it stays to be seen whether or not or not the 32-year-old will put pen to paper on a brand new deal. The veteran has been ruled out of the rest of the marketing campaign with a knee damage and will use his time away from the pitch to resolve what he desires to do heading into the 2023/24 marketing campaign.

Does Corry Evans deserve a brand new deal?

That is the place Rigg comes into play, because the gifted teenager might be the long-term inheritor to Evans’ place within the workforce, whether or not the previous Blackburn warrior strikes on this summer season or in one of many subsequent few switch home windows.

On the age of 15, there isn’t any rush for the academy midfielder to develop into a daily within the first-team, and Evans signing a contract extension may present {the teenager} with the time that he must proceed his improvement earlier than breaking into the beginning XI.

Regardless of not turning 16 till June, Rigg has already performed three senior matches for the Black Cats – all within the FA Cup –  and Mowbray has said that the prodigy has the scope to develop into a high participant.

The Sunderland boss said: “He’s not a giant, sturdy, bodily, man – he’s fairly slight – however he has a beautiful left foot and he’s an extremely aggressive animal. I’ve seen him for 20-Half-hour in an U21 sport towards Southampton, and his potential seems monumental to me.”

Rigg, who has additionally performed six occasions for the membership’s U21 workforce, is a promising younger prospect who’s displaying indicators that he might be a future star for the membership, and due to this fact the long-term inheritor to Evans’ beginning berth in the course of the park.