The Sunderland Chronicle
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
- Squad A row about effort at Sunderland
- Looking ahead Simon Moore goes back to face Brentford
- Squad A wage question at Sunderland