Sunderland have agreed a deal to appoint Manchester City’s Simon Wilson as chief football officer.
Sunderland have agreed a deal to appoint Manchester City’s Simon Wilson as chief football officer from 1 January.
According to an earlier report in the Sun, Wilson will help to identify targets at both first-team and academy levels, with David Moyes also having a major say.
So could the pair to conspire to bring to the Stadium of Light a player who Wilson should know well, and who Moyes first courted as Everton manager in 2009, as reported by the Daily Mirror at the time?
City’s Fabian Delph has not featured since August through injury and though he is set to return in December, his chances of securing regular first team football between now and the end of the season seem slim.
With Ilkay Gundogan sidelined and Yaya Toure banished, Delph still only managed one start from a possible five at the start of the campaign. Both have since returned and, on current form, may be hard to budge.
Sunderland, meanwhile, are likely to seek central midfield reinforcements in January, with Lee Cattermole sidelined and Didier N’Dong set for the African Cup of Nations.
Delph would almost certainly get the minutes he needs in England’s north east, and that in turn could put him back in Pep Guardiola’s plans, with Toure and Fernandinho both out of contract in June.
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