Sunderland severely contemplating transfer for £17m “objective machine”

Each Sunderland and Leeds United have began their respective Premier League campaigns with confidence-boosting wins after tasting the candy glory of promotion final season.

Leeds nearly acquired over the road in the long run in a 1-0 conquer Everton, whereas Regis Le Bris‘ Black Cats stormed to a mightily spectacular 3-0 victory over a dejected West Ham United aspect who rolled over within the second half to reward the hosts a snug three factors.

Up subsequent, Sunderland journey to the one promoted outfit that did not choose up most factors on the opening weekend in Burnley, prepared to use extra salt to the Clarets’ wound on the street.

Extra new signings in via the door additionally look to be horizon on the Stadium of Gentle, because the constructive temper on Wearside reveals no indicators of letting up.

Sunderland think about £17m swoop for striker

Regardless of such a rampant providing towards the Hammers, Sunderland appears to be out there once more for some recent attackers.

Studies recommend that a large £27m bid has been lodged by Le Bris and Co. for the companies of Leicester Metropolis winger Abdul Fatawu, with a deal maybe too costly for Sunderland to finalise, owing to their fast spending all summer time lengthy.

£17m might additionally quickly be splashed on Ajax centre-forward Brian Brobbey, if different studies are to be believed.

As per Dutch outfit Algemeen Dagblad, it’s being alleged that Sunderland are severely contemplating a transfer for the homegrown Amsterdam attacker, who has been instructed he can depart his boyhood membership to try to discover a change of surroundings.

That has alerted Stade Rennes, Stuttgart, and AS Roma, with Sunderland additionally within the combine.

Sealing a £17m deal for Brobbery to affix the constructing may effectively see Sunderland attempt to replicate the success story of their Wilson Isidor deal, as one other thrilling – if barely unknown to the typical Black Cats supporter – attacker braces himself for an enormous transfer to English soil.

Why Brobbey could be the subsequent Isidor

It is truthful to say the gamble to deliver Isidor to Wearside has now greater than paid off, together with his trendy curled end wrongfooting Mads Hermansen to seal a 3-0 win on the opening day.

After all, he has different moments of high quality in his again pocket, too, on the Stadium of Gentle, because the goal-hungry Frenchman helped himself to 13 strikes final season as Sunderland received that ecstatic promotion again as much as the large time.

Isidor’s transfer has now gone down as a left-field change that has labored completely for all concerned, contemplating the 24-year-old initially arrived at Le Bris’ camp on mortgage as a relative unknown entity from Zenit St. Petersburg.

With solely 4 objectives subsequent to his identify from 26 appearances for the Russian titans, there would have been plenty of nervousness within the air surrounding him flopping.

Fortunately, that wasn’t the case, with Brobbey now trying to comply with in Isidor’s footsteps, after he skilled a shoddy 2024/25 marketing campaign himself within the Eredivisie.

Solely 4 of Brobbey’s seven strikes final season would are available in Dutch top-flight motion, which is a notable drop-off when contrasted together with his blistering exploits through the 2023/24 season, the place a mammoth 21 objectives and 11 assists would come his means from 43 contests.

The eight-time Netherlands worldwide might effectively get again to his goalscoring greatest beneath Le Bris’ wing, figuring out that Isidor has been reworked right into a Premier League-capable attacker beneath the ex-Lorient boss’ tutelage.

Furthermore, when the “prolific” attacker is purring – as he has been labelled beforehand by scout Jacek Kulig – he’s a pressure to be reckoned with, as seen when powering house this thumping one-time end towards Heracles Almelo, which is harking back to Isidor’s split-second shows of high quality in entrance of objective.

Additional lauded as a “objective machine” by Kulig, this feels as if it may very well be a golden buy if all goes to plan, as Sunderland makes an attempt to scare extra top-flight defences stiff with the addition of one other medical finisher.