Jay Matadeen

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Sunderland U20
24 Sep 2028
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103 Edition

The Sunderland Chronicle

17 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad17 Jul 2028

Jay Matadeen damages knee ligaments — 39 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 39 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market17 Jul 2028

Omar Alderete asks to leave Sunderland

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market17 Jul 2028

Sunderland turn down Rio Ave for Bertrand Traoré

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad17 Jul 2028

Tempers go at Sunderland

Omar Alderete was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad17 Jul 2028

Real improvement from Marcus Neill at Sunderland

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Marcus Neill is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad17 Jul 2028

Words at Sunderland training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nordi Mukiele is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

Back issues
102 Edition

The Sunderland Chronicle

10 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad10 Jul 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jay Matadeen

49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sunderland lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad10 Jul 2028

Omar Alderete in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sunderland this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market10 Jul 2028

Sunderland say no — this time

The offer from Brentford for Jocelin Ta Bi was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Boardroom10 Jul 2028

Joe Neild has agreed to leave Sunderland for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad10 Jul 2028

Real improvement from Mark Bell at Sunderland

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mark Bell is 16, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market10 Jul 2028

Bertrand Traoré attracts admirers

The name of Bertrand Traoré has come up in conversations Sunderland were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

In brief