Sunderland have taken the Premier League 2025/2026 by storm. The newly promoted Black Cats haven’t just come up to survive in the league; they are competing for European qualification and fear no one, as demonstrated by their brave play and determination in duels. It cannot be overstated just how significant...
Sunderland could not have dreamed of a better start to their Premier League season. The Black Cats currently sit fourth in the table after their 2-1 stoppage time win over Chelsea, making it three wins in their last four matches. It’s an incredible rise considering in October of 2020, they...
Who Is Nordi Mukiele? Nordi Mukiele (187cm/6’2”, 84kg/185lbs) has become an integral part of Régis Le Bris’ Sunderland tactics in the Wearside club’s mission for Premier League survival. The 27-year-old former France international arrived at the Stadium of Light from European champions Paris Saint-Germain last summer for a €12m transfer...
For any club arriving in the Premier League, the question of how to stay there can be reduced to one word: stability. That stability begins at the back, and at the very core of the defensive unit is the goalkeeper. In recent years, most newly promoted sides have chosen to...
After eight years away—four of which were spent in England’s third tier, EFL League One—Sunderland will return to the Premier League in 2025/2026. Régis Le Bris’ side defeated Chris Wilder’s Sheffield United 2-1 in the EFL Championship Play-Off Final at Wembley Stadium on Saturday to secure their return to England’s top flight....
On Saturday, 24th May, two of northern England’s most storied football clubs, Sheffield United vs Sunderland, meet in what is called the most expensive game in football: the EFL Championship Play-Off Final. Promotion to the Premier League is at stake, along with a financial windfall that can reshape a club’s...
As the regular 2024/2025 EFL Championship season finishes, all eyes now turn towards the highly anticipated Championship Play-Offs. The four teams competing for the last remaining spot in the 2025/2026 Premier League are Sheffield United, Sunderland, Coventry City and Bristol City. All of the sides come into the season-defining fixtures...
The Premier League is a league of global talent, with scouts searching the European and South American markets for the next breakout stars. These regions have become grounds for unearthing players who, with the right development, can be moulded into high-potential players before being flipped for sizeable profits. However, while...
Who Is Régis Le Bris? Régis Le Bris is currently in his second role in senior football management at Sunderland, following an interesting two-year stint with Lorient in Ligue 1 from June 2022 to June 2024. The 48-year-old coach has taken his next challenge in the EFL Championship to keep developing...
Last season, Régis Le Bris guided Lorient to a 10th place finish in Ligue 1 — their highest top-flight placing since the 2013/14 campaign, their final season under the leadership of Christian Gourcuff, when they finished eighth; they had quite a young squad to boot, giving the impression of quite...
Christophe Pélissier guided Lorient back to Ligue 1 by helping them to win Ligue 2 in 2019/20, ensuring the 2020/21 season would be the Brittany club’s first back in the top flight since their 2016/17 relegation. Pélissier registered consecutive 16th-place finishes among France’s elite in 2020/21 and 2021/22 before he...
Dango Ouattara only arrived in France in 2020, as a youth product from Majestic FC, a team in his home nation Burkina Faso. The young wide player had limited minutes in the 2021/22 season. Still, after work on the training ground and increasing game experience, he has broken his way...
Paris Saint-Germain academy product Adil Aouchiche (181cm/5’11”, 69kg/152lbs) had been linked with the likes of Arsenal and Juventus two years ago when he ultimately ended up joining French giants Saint-Étienne after leaving Paris after just turning 18 years old. He hasn’t enjoyed the smoothest start to life in senior football,...
Lens have got the 2022/23 campaign off to a flying start, taking four wins and one draw from their opening five games. This puts them on 13 points, level with PSG and Marseille at the summit of France’s top flight. It’s still early days, but that’s certainly not bad company...
