League One promotion hopefuls Sunderland loaned Jack Baldwin to Salford City last summer – he is yet to play under Phil Parkinson.
Jack Baldwin is on his way out of the Stadium of Light with the Echo reporting that Sunderland are all-but certain to release the centre-back this summer.
A lower-league centre-back who moved to Wearside in a £200,000 deal in the summer of 2018, Baldwin is one of a whole host of Black Cats players who are out of contract in the near future.
But unlike Jon McLaughlin, Duncan Watmore, Chris Maguire and co, all of whom remain key a part of Phil Parkinson’s plans going forward, it looks for all the world that Sunderland fans have seen the last of Baldwin in red and white.
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The former Peterborough United captain has not made a single appearance under Parkinson, having joined League Two newcomers Salford City on loan back in September.
It is no coincidence, meanwhile, that the Manchester-based outfit have produced their finest performances of the campaign with Baldwin at the heart of their backline.
But Sunderland are not exactly short of options at centre-half and it appears that there is no room at the inn for Baldwin going forward – especially with the promotion hopefuls keen to land Bailey Wright on a permanent basis from Bristol City sooner rather than later.
Though with plenty of Football League experience under his belt, a real leader of a defender should not be short of offers come the summer.
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