Mackems Suffering Like Toon Did Last Season!

Last updated : 24 July 2014 By Footy Mad - Editor

Not THIS summer!

United have made SIX major signings - Remy Cabella, Jack Colback, Siem de Jong, Daryl Janmaat, Ayoze Perez and Emmanuel Riviere.

However, Sunderland head coach Gus Poyet is desperate for a transfer breakthrough after growing frustrated with a recent lack of new arrivals.

Sporting director Lee Congerton is working hard behind the scenes to add to the early-summer captures of Costel Pantilimon, Billy Jones and Jordi Gomez, but his efforts to land Fabio Borini, Marcos Alonso and a series of other targets since are yet to bear fruit.

Poyet: "I'm waiting and waiting, which is not nice. You're expecting to do a couple of deals, but they're not happening.

"People say 'don't be anxious or nervous'. I think there will be at least one in by tomorrow, and I hope at the weekend we can have three in.

"But the word I'm saying is 'hope'. It's a matter of time, but as the days go past, that becomes difficult.

"We are waiting, we are desperate to do something in the next few days because we are going to Portugal and we need to have as many players as possible in place by the time we get there."