Sunderland: Undav can be the next Phillips

Sunderland have been linked with Brighton striker Deniz Undav just lately and the German may show to be the Black Cats’ subsequent Kevin Phillips on the Stadium of Gentle.

In response to Football League World, the 26-year-old may arrive at Sunderland within the January switch window in a mortgage deal from the Seagulls, though the Black Cats will face competitors from fellow Championship sides Blackburn Rovers, Burnley, QPR, Norwich Metropolis and Coventry Metropolis.

The Seagulls signed Undav in January 2022 after some sensational performances with Union Saint-Gillois in Belgium, earlier than loaning him again to the Professional League facet for the rest of the 2021/22 marketing campaign.

He would ultimately end the season on 25 goals and ten assists in simply 33 Professional League appearances however has struggled to displace Danny Welbeck in Brighton’s facet underneath each Graham Potter and Roberto de Zerbi. He has simply eight substitute appearances within the Premier League to his title, though he did rating in a single begin in opposition to Forest Inexperienced within the FA Cup.

Upon his arrival at Brighton in the summertime, Undav promised lots of targets but it surely appears as if he must scratch his goalscoring itch on mortgage for the remainder of the season, and Sunderland may very well be the massive beneficiaries.

He said: “I can rating contained in the field, exterior the field, I can rating from the center line, I can rating from all over the place. I’ve no typical kind of purpose. I attempt to rating with my head, with the left foot, proper foot, with my shoulder, with the whole lot.”

This capacity in entrance of purpose could effectively remind Sunderland followers of Kevin Phillips, who finished because the membership’s high goalscorer in 4 consecutive campaigns between 1999/2000 and 2002/03, together with 30 Premier League targets in that first season.

He was adept on both foot, and though his proper was his strongest, the previous Crystal Palace ace was nonetheless assured on his left. Certainly, for the kind of targets Transfermarkt have recorded within the later phases of his profession, Phillips discovered the web on 55 events together with his proper after which eight occasions together with his left.

No different participant has ever managed 30 league targets in a single season for Sunderland and whereas it could be unrealistic for Tony Mowbray to anticipate Undav to bag 30 within the second half of the Championship marketing campaign, he definitely appears assured in his personal capacity.

The actual fact he managed 27 in all competitions final time period means that he is aware of the place the web is and his medical nature in entrance of purpose may maybe see him observe within the footsteps of a legend akin to Phillips on the Stadium of Gentle.