Sunderland not in wonderland

Sunderland

In: 
Emanuele Giaccherini - Juventus - £6.5million
Jozy Altidore - AZ Alkmaar – Undisclosed
El Hadji Ba - Le Havre - £380,000
Modibo Diakite - Lazio – Free
Cabral - Basel – Free
Vito Mannone - Arsenal – Undisclosed
David Moberg Karlsson - Gothenburg – Undisclosed
Valentin Roberge - Maritimo – Free
Duncan Whatmore - Altrincham – Undisclosed
Ondrej Celustka - Trabzonspor – Loan
Ki Sung-Yeung - Swansea – Loan
Fabio Borini - Liverpool – Loan
Andrea Dossena - Napoli - Loan

Out:
Simon Mignolet - Liverpool - £9m
Titus Bramble – Released
Matt Kilgallon - Blackburn – Free
Ahmed Elmohamady - Hull - £2m
Alfred N'Diaye - Eskisehirspor – Loan
James McClean - Wigan - £1.5m (reported)
Stephane Sessegnon - West Brom - Undisclosed

Paolo Di Canio has recognised a deficiency in his squad and apparently opted for ‘quantity not quality’ as he looked to reinforce his languishing side. Winger Emanuel Giaccherini, who has already found the net for his new club, and striker Jozy Altidore represent good signings for a club whose premier league points tally is currently just one better than my own personal tally. Di Canio is… lets say… a character… and his condiment banning policy has left many relishing the fact that they do not play for Sunderland. He will be hoping that his new signings help his side to ketchup to the rest of the pack, I must(ard) stop with these puns. But in all seriousness, Sunderland are in real trouble is their signings do not come off, and relegation could well be in their future.

Grade: C-

Di Canio has not signed badly, however, gaps in the squad remain and he will need to work hard with his squad in order to avoid a relegation scrap this season.

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