Considering the amount of money Sunderland has spend for the past few years since their promotion season, Sunderland should be considered as a "failure". Their result never matches their spendings, huge attendence, and home staudium "Staudium of Light", one of the largest in the country. After the Roy Keane's disaster experiment, the highly-respected Steve Bruce was appointed last season but still failed to lead the team reaching first half of the league table with a disappointing 13rd place finish. The key cause of the problem was Roy Keane's wasteful signings during his era when he locked up long-term contracts with some over-priced players, making the team seemingly too deep but in reality lacks of capable quality to fight with the top teams. Steve Bruce has now gradually improved the team. The team mainly built up from English domestic talents such as CB Turner, CB Anton Ferdinand, DMF Cattermole, WG Richardson and FW Darren Bent. Granted that newly signed Argentina RB Angeleri and Paraguay AMF Riveros are both South American full-internationals, the team still needs 2-3 higher calibera star foreigners to bring that extra quality to establish the team to be a consistent top 10 team in the league fighting for the Europa League qualification. A mid-table finish is not out of question with their deeper squad than most rivals but hard to see them get beyond 9th position nevertheless.
Strongest line-up: <4-4-2>
Gordon
Campbell Bent
Prediction: Mid-table
Strongest line-up: <4-4-2>
Gordon
Angeleri Bramble Turner Richardson
Malbranque Cattermole Riveros Zenden
Campbell Bent
Prediction: Mid-table
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