The Sunderland Chronicle
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Sunderland bid $62.5M for Kerem Aktürkoğlu
The offer went to Fenerbahce this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Door shut on Luis Suárez
Sunderland asked and Sporting CP said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$4.8M settles it between the clubs for Svetoslav Vutsov
Levski have accepted the money. What Sunderland do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market17 Aug 2026
Wilson Isidor moves on
Toulouse FC pay $22.3M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market17 Aug 2026
Bristol City come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Sunderland did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Sunderland
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market17 Aug 2026
Sunderland promote Nathan Bailey from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nathan Bailey 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Sunderland promote Nathan Graham from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nathan Graham 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Sunderland sign off a bigger ground
A capacity of 56341 on the plans. A decision judged twenty years from now, by people who were not in the room and will have opinions anyway.
In brief
- Squad Tempers go at Sunderland
- Looking ahead Simon Moore goes back to face Brentford
- Squad A wage question at Sunderland