{"id":614742,"date":"2022-07-08T15:04:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T19:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614742"},"modified":"2022-07-11T11:11:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T15:11:46","slug":"sunderland-news-round-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/08\/sunderland-news-round-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland News Round-Up: Black Cats Closing in on Two Wingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Sunderland news round-up brings you all the details on the two wingers that could be heading to Wearside. Tottenham Hotspur&#8217;s Jack Clarke who had a successful loan spell at the Stadium of Light last season could be set for a permanent move to Wearside, with various sources including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunderlandecho.com\/sport\/football\/sunderland-afc\/sunderland-close-to-making-spurs-and-former-leeds-united-winger-their-second-summer-signing-3762213\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunderland Echo<\/a> reporting that a deal is almost done.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, Manchester City&#8217;s Columbian international Marlos Moreno is also of interest to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/30\/sunderland-news-round-up\/\" target=\"_self\">Sunderland<\/a>; however, they could face competition for his signature<\/p>\n<h2>Sunderland News Round-Up: Black Cats Looking To Bolster Squad<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u270d\ufe0f The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SAFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SAFC<\/a> transfer news<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o2yJ8zgppJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/o2yJ8zgppJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sunderland Echo SAFC (@sunechosafc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sunechosafc\/status\/1545420440520183814?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Jack Clarke Close to Sealing Permanent Deal<\/h3>\n<p>According to reports, Sunderland look set to add <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/03\/tottenham-loan-signing-french-defender\/\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham<\/a> winger Clarke to their squad on a permanent basis. Reports by Phil Smith of the Sunderland Echo, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelBridge_\/status\/1545434569603784704?s=20&amp;t=vML48jUnD3p4z5p5Gi8J8Q\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Bridge<\/a> of Sky Sports and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JHunterChron\/status\/1545436616705118213?s=20&amp;t=vML48jUnD3p4z5p5Gi8J8Q\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Hunter<\/a> of the Chronicle suggest that the deal is almost done. The 21-year-old, should he sign is expected to fly out to Portugal to meet up with his teammates as they prepare for the new season with two friendlies.<\/p>\n<p>Clarke enjoyed a successful loan spell on Wearside last season despite playing in an unfamiliar wing-back role for much of the time. Several impressive performances followed a slow start at the Stadium of Light as he found match fitness and confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Clarke played an important role in helping the club achieve promotion via the playoffs. His most vital contribution came in the semi-final second leg at Sheffield Wednesday where he provided the assist for Sunderland&#8217;s late equaliser to send the Black cats to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/23\/sunderland-weekly-round-up-black-cats-seal-promotion-at-wembley\/\" target=\"_self\">Wembley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Clarke would be Sunderland&#8217;s second summer signing following the arrival of defender <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/30\/sunderland-complete-signing\/\" target=\"_self\">Dan Ballard<\/a> from Arsenal.<\/p>\n<h3>Manchester City Winger Wanted<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunderlandecho.com\/sport\/football\/sunderland-afc\/sunderland-to-battle-championship-rivals-bristol-city-and-norwich-city-for-international-winger-3761279\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunderland Echo<\/a>&#8216;s Richard Mennear has reported that the club are among three Championship sides interested in <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/05\/romeo-lavia-close-southampton-move\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester City<\/a> winger Marlos Moreno. However, it is yet unknown whether the deal would be a loan or a permanent one.<\/p>\n<p>Should Alex Neil wish to add Moreno to his squad he could face competition from Bristol City and Norwich City.<\/p>\n<p>Signed by Manchester City in 2016 for \u00a35 million from Atletico Nacional, Moreno has failed to make a first-team appearance at the current Premier League champions. However, the 25-year-old has had several loan spells in a bid to aid his development.<\/p>\n<p>Moreno has spent time at Spanish sides Deportivo La Coruna and Girona, as well as spells in Belgium Brazil, Mexico and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Belgian journalist Sven Claes spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mancity.com\/features\/marlos-moreno-loan-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ManCity.com<\/a> regarding his time at Lommel SK. He said:\u00a0\u201cIn my opinion he was the best player of the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHe played some wonderful games, he started playing every week and had a lot of minutes and no injuries which is very important for players like that also mentally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s really a winger who takes on a full-back, sometimes he really embarrassed them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Sunderland news round-up looks at the two wingers that could soon be added to Alex Neil&#8217;s squad ahead of the new season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":614749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,7188,22],"tags":[3158,9307,9010],"class_list":["post-614742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-rumours","category-sunderland","tag-jack-clarke","tag-marlos-moreno","tag-sunderland-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Joseph Howes, Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}