Sunderland’s promising summer time continues apace after their opening weekend victory over West Ham United.
The Black Cats noticed off the Hammers as Regis Le Bris’ new recruits acclimatised to the Premier League with aplomb.
Sunderland have signed a number of new gamers for the French head coach’s squad, spending freely upon their return to the highest flight.
Sunderland set to exceed £142m spending report
Their expenditure reveals no signal of letting up, both, as new stories point out the Wearsiders are eyeing up strikes for Bologna centre-back Lucumi and the Foxes’ Ghanaian ahead Fatawu.
Based on Fabrizio Romano, Sunderland have submitted an official bid for the Colombian defender, who’s reportedly eager to affix following the arrivals of Granit Xhaka, Habib Diarra, Simon Adingra and co.
Lucumi has near 100 Serie A look since arriving from Belgian membership KRC Genk, in addition to over a dozen Champions League outings below his belt.
Bologna missed out on European qualification final season however are supposedly reluctant to let the 27-year-old go away after his launch clause expired.
Elsewhere, Sunderland have reportedly seen a £27.5 million (€32m) supply for Leicester’s Abdul Fatawu rejected, in keeping with Spanish outlet AS.
The Black Cats seem eager to bolster all areas of their squad, which was promoted through the Championship play-offs again in Could.
The membership are near surpassing Nottingham Forest‘s spending report as a newly-promoted group, having already dedicated £142m on incoming transfers throughout this window.
Any deal for Lucumi or Fatawu would see Sunderland smash via Forest’s switch report ceiling, taking their spending above the £170m mark.
