Brian Brobbey

Striker - Sunderland
21 Aug 2026
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The Sunderland Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Sunderland rebuffed over Roberto Alvarado

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Guadalajara have kept their man, and Sunderland go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market17 Aug 2026

Mainz 05 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Chris Rigg moves on

Bournemouth pay $12.3M, 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.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Sunderland bid $750.0K for Adam Smith

The offer went to Bournemouth 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

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.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

5 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

Newcastle United watching Abdoullah Ba

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Sunderland have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market17 Aug 2026

Sunderland promote Steven Davies from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Steven Davies 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

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The Sunderland Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Queens Park Rangers 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Omar Alderete raises the bar for Sunderland

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Sunderland heard it as anything else.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Omar Alderete signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Omar Alderete commits to Sunderland for another 5 years.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Heung-Min Son turns down Sunderland

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Los Angeles Football Club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Sunderland

Omar Alderete and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Sunderland rebuffed over Adam Smith

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bournemouth have kept their man, and Sunderland go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Sunderland

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Malick Fofana was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market10 Aug 2026

Harrison Jones attracts admirers

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

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

A loan move for Tammer Kumar is in the works

Sunderland have made the call to West Bromwich Albion. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief