Shane

Richard Kone Bench: McNeilly - Top scorer in PL2, contract expires this summer. Tezgel - 2nd Top scorer in PL2, 11 goals in 5 games, contract expires this summer.

What about the Sunderland manager if they don’t get promoted? His recruitment has been decent and promotes youth.

We should promote from within if we need a fullback, the academy is stacked in that position. Aluko & Mirsad Ali are very promising.

Charlie Savage is an interesting one. Good engine, aggressive off the ball and has 15 goal contributions in all competitions.

this is another reason why we need to give the youth a chance.

Kota Takai (CB). J-League young player of the year and made his first senior debut for the Japan national team recently.

Mirsad Ali and Thomas as our left back options next season

Watching Daka always cheers me up, he’s so bad its hilarious

4-4-1-1 Formation GK: Stolarczyk, GK, GK RB: Joseph, Aluko, Coulibaly CB: Nelson, CB, Okoli, Souttar, Vestergaard LB: Mirsad Ali, Justin CM: Winks, DM, Skipp, DM, Ricardo RW: Fatawu, McAteer, Cordova-Reid LW: Monga, Mavididi ST: Alves, Evans CF: Kone, CF, Daka Out: Hermansen, Faes, Coady, Thomas, VK, Choudhury, Soumare, Ndidi, El Khannouss, Ayew Released: Iversen, Ward, Vardy

surely at least one of our young fullbacks (jayden joseph, mirsad ali and aluko) can break through to the first team next season.

Very good first half from Alves. Arguably man of the match so far. Positives - Looks dangerous everytime he gets the ball, very positive always trying to make something happen. Can’t remember a time he lost the ball/was dispossessed. Room to improve - off the ball defending, hasn’t really pressed the opposition or tracked back. This could be a tactical decision from the manager though.

He looks really dangerous playing RW