Robin Roefs

Goalkeeper - Sunderland
19 Aug 2026
Wednesday
Process
Overview Personal Contract News 3 Transfers 6 Relations Events 17 Awards Matches History

Marked for Robin Roefs

3 Edition

The Sunderland Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Fee done, terms next for Luiz Henrique

Sunderland and Zenit have settled on $22.7M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Sunderland bid $38.0M for Kevin Schade

The offer went to Brentford 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Sunderland turn down Udinese for Wilson Isidor

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market17 Aug 2026

Burnley watching Robin Roefs

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

Squad17 Aug 2026

A move Nicolás Azambuja would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Nicolás Azambuja is living that version at Sunderland, and it tends to show in the first month.

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

Graduation day at Sunderland

2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Market17 Aug 2026

Sunderland promote Adam Harris from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Adam Harris 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 Joseph King from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Joseph King 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.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Sunderland Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Sunderland say no — this time

The offer from Tottenham for Omar Alderete was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Sunderland make their move for Shea Charles

$8.1M on the table at Southampton. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Sunderland

Robin Roefs and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

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.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Malick Fofana

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Malick Fofana, and the manager let it.

Market10 Aug 2026

24 months and counting on Reinildo

Still no offer on the table, and Reinildo’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Brian Brobbey knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Sunderland, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

1 Edition

The Sunderland Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market3 Aug 2026

Sunderland turn down Hamburger SV for Robin Roefs

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Too dear: Sunderland walk away from Tyrick Mitchell

$5.2M was the most the club would pay and Crystal Palace were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

An offer of $1.5M for Nicolás Azambuja

Sunderland have gone to Danubio with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Market3 Aug 2026

Granit Xhaka wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Sunderland hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Sunderland

Omar Alderete and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Marcus Neill stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Marcus Neill and Sunderland agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Malick Fofana falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market3 Aug 2026

Abdoullah Ba attracts admirers

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

Market3 Aug 2026

Still no ink between Sunderland and Marcus Neill

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Sunderland, another week without a signature from Marcus Neill.

In brief

  • Squad 5 new faces, and Sunderland are still learning each other
  • The dugout Omar Alderete knocks on the manager’s door