The Sunderland Chronicle
Squad10 Jul 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Aji Alese
61 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.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Real improvement from Franco Pinho at Sunderland
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Franco Pinho is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Words at Sunderland training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Malick Fofana 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.
Market10 Jul 2028
Sunderland promote Benjamin Evans from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Benjamin Evans has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Jul 2028
One of our own: Luke Smith joins the Sunderland first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luke Smith is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Sunderland promote Steven Edwards from within
- Market One of our own: Jack Kelly joins the Sunderland first team
- Boardroom Sunderland keep producing them