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Will Grigg completely drained Sunderland

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Will Grigg completely drained Sunderland

Sunderland have had loads of high-profile switch blunders in recent times, a lot of which contributed to their catastrophic hunch down the divisions.

In an try to decelerate their fall, the hierarchy made quite a few added errors which additional compounded the mess they discovered themselves in.

Was Will Grigg a waste of cash?

For a membership that had simply been relegated to League One, spending £4m on Will Grigg was a transfer considerably well-received attributable to his recognition throughout the nation, however provoked wariness.

Each soccer fan throughout the nation knew his classic song, and he was coming off the again of scoring 19 the season earlier than for Wigan Athletic in the identical league.

He was additionally handed a good-looking wage of £6k-per-week, which unfold out throughout his 173 weeks on the membership provides an additional £1m to his complete price to the membership.

Scoring four within the second half of the season for the Black Cats was a good however in the end underwhelming return, and he would solely go on to play 62 occasions for the membership in complete.

A return of simply eight targets throughout this era marks an enormous disappointment for the person they hoped would fireplace them straight again to the Championship.

Within the season the place they ultimately did handle to earn promotion, Grigg was out on one in every of his many loans. There was hope they may spark him into motion, to ultimately collect some return on their sizable funding. Unsurprisingly, this by no means got here to happen.

Stephen Elliot confirmed a wariness with regard to his profession on Wearside early on, when he took to Twitter to claim: “Grigg seems like he’s 1,000,000 miles away. So worrying with playoffs coming.”

What makes it all of the extra irritating is the truth that he has scored targets for loads of different golf equipment, with 65 for the Latics and 33 targets in simply 79 for MK Dons.

He additionally left on a free, compounding the horrible deal which additional financially hamstrung the membership.

Grigg drained Sunderland throughout his time and provides to a protracted checklist of terrible switch selections made in recent times.