The Sunderland Chronicle
Squad16 Jun 2042
A knee injury of the worst kind for Romaine Mundle
116 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.
Squad16 Jun 2042
Chemsdine Talbi breaks a bone — 108 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 108 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad16 Jun 2042
Richard Atkinson: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Sunderland have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad16 Jun 2042
Chemsdine Talbi 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.
Market16 Jun 2042
Sunderland sign Joshua Green, one for the future
Joshua Green is 18, and Sunderland have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market16 Jun 2042
The Leon Routh talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Sunderland know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Market Ezra Agyekum placed on the list
- Boardroom The Sunderland production line keeps running