News Roundup: Sunderland Linked With Argentine Defender & Brazilian Winger

Dossena On Sunderland Spell

Ex-Sunderland defender Andrea Dossena is currently the head coach of Serie C side Novara and during an interview with Calcio Mercato spoke about his time in the North East. With the former left back explaining how he would turn up for training and his team-mates would reek of alcohol:

**My goodness… some players would arrive at training still smelling of alcohol from the night before. I didn’t have a great relationship with the coach, Poyet. When I arrived, Di Canio was there. They sent me to Rome to get treatment for an injury, and when I got back to England, I couldn’t find him: he’d argued during a meeting, and Poyet had arrived in his place. I remember he never let us watch a match again to analyze it.**

An Extra Fee For Le Fee

Due to the team’s brilliant Premier League campaign, where they clinched safety with ease, Sunderland have had to fork out an extra €4m (£3.45m) to Roma for Enzo Le Fee, according to Forza Roma. That fee takes the total paid for the playmaker to just under €25m (£21.6m), with the Serie A club also having a 10% sell-on clause in the Frenchman’s contract.

Brazilian Winger Linked

Sunderland have been linked with a move for Alisson Santana, according to a report in Ukraine by Sport UA. The Shakhtar Donetsk player was the subject of a €30m bid last summer, which the Ukrainian club rejected, and now both Sunderland and Galatasaray are said to be interested in the 20-year-old. He has 6 goals and 5 assists in 10 games across Shaktar’s Europa League Qualifying and Conference League campaigns this season