{"id":635065,"date":"2024-02-01T06:07:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T11:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=635065"},"modified":"2024-02-01T10:50:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:50:20","slug":"sunderland-sign-former-tottenham-hotspur-youngster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/02\/01\/sunderland-sign-former-tottenham-hotspur-youngster\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland Sign Former Tottenham Hotspur Youngster From Standard Liege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunderland have completed the permanent signing of midfielder Romaine Mundle from Standard Liege. The 20-year-old has signed a four-and-a-half-year deal with the fee undisclosed. The deal was confirmed by Sunderland&#8217;s official website <a href=\"https:\/\/safc.com\/news\/team-news\/2024\/february\/romaine-mundle-joins-sunderland\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">safc.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mundle rose through the ranks at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/01\/30\/hojbjerg-tottenham-clubs-interested-transfer\/\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> and impressed in their youth teams before being called up to train with the first-team squad. Last summer, Mundle rejected a new contract at Spurs to sign a four-year deal with Standard Liege. The Londoner has appeared six times since moving to Belgium; however, he has cut his time short to return to England.<\/p>\n<h2>Sunderland Sign Former Tottenham Hotspur Youngster From Standard Liege<\/h2>\n<p>Romaine Mundle has become Sunderland&#8217;s second signing of the transfer window following defender <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/01\/30\/sunderland-complete-signing-of-defender\/\" target=\"_self\">Leo Hjelde<\/a> who joined from Championship rivals Leeds United.<\/p>\n<h3>Mundle on Joining Sunderland and What Fans Can Expect<\/h3>\n<p>New signing Romaine Mundle has spoken about moving to Wearside and also what fans can expect from him. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunderlandecho.com\/sport\/football\/sunderland-afc\/sunderlands-second-january-signing-explains-why-he-made-the-move-what-hell-bring-4501668\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He said<\/a>: &#8220;It feels surreal and I just can&#8217;t wait to get started, play in front of the fans and develop as a player,&#8221; Mundle said. It was a no-brainer for me, a club with a lot of history and it felt like the right move for me to progress with my career.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ViafouraConversationStarter__StyledViafouraConversationStarter-sc-6yw40m-0 dsnrfK\">\n<div class=\"viafoura\">&#8220;I&#8217;m a quick winger, skilful and willing to work hard. I&#8217;m excited [to get going]. The project here, the fanbase, the staff, I couldn&#8217;t really say no to be honest. It&#8217;s a massive club in England and for me and my development, it&#8217;s the right step. It&#8217;s an amazing stadium, I can&#8217;t wait for it to be packed and to be playing in front of the fans. I&#8217;m just ready to get going now.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Sporting Director on New Signing<\/h3>\n<p>Sporting Director <a href=\"https:\/\/safc.com\/news\/team-news\/2024\/february\/romaine-mundle-joins-sunderland\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kristian Speakman said<\/a>: \u201cTalented players like Romaine are highly sought after and we saw this first hand in the summer when he left Tottenham Hotspur. We didn\u2019t anticipate him being available on a permanent basis, but when we sensed an opportunity, we moved quickly and decisively to make it happen &#8211; our ways of working and structure are a real strength in these moments. This is an important step in Romaine&#8217;s career following a spell overseas and we look forward to helping him settle, as he makes Sunderland his new home. He\u2019s got a bright future ahead of him as part of an exciting squad, and we look forward to working with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunderland have completed the permanent signing of midfielder Romaine Mundle from Standard Liege. The 20-year-old has signed a four-and-a-half-year deal with the fee undisclosed. The deal was confirmed by Sunderland&#8217;s official website safc.com. Mundle rose through the ranks at Tottenham Hotspur and impressed in their youth teams before being called up to train with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":635071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[32,33,1369],"tags":[773,31730,6579],"class_list":["post-635065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-sunderland-league-football","tag-january-transfer-window","tag-romaine-mundle","tag-sunderland-transfer-news"],"modified_by":"Barry Dixon, LWOF Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635065","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=635065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}