Sunderland Explore Move For Leicester's Fatawu

Sunderland are exploring whether a move for Leicester winger Abdul Fatawu is viable arsenic nan recently promoted broadside look to proceed their spending spree.

The 21-year-old Ghana world is 1 of nan Foxes' astir valuable assets, reportedly weighted astatine astir £30m.

The Black Cats person held preliminary talks to formalise their liking but nary bid has been made yet amid interest that a move could beryllium excessively costly aliases difficult to complete.

Sunderland person already spent £141.5m successful nan transportation window, which is conscionable short of Nottingham Forest's £142m successful nan summertime of 2022, a British grounds for a promoted club.

Their latest signing was nan £9.5m acquisition of Paris St-Germain defender Nordi Mukiele, adding to deals for erstwhile Arsenal midfielder Granit Xhaka, winger Simon Adingra from Brighton and club-record signing Habib Diarra, who costs astir £30m from Strasbourg.

Fatawu joined Leicester from Sporting Lisbon, initially connected loan, and helped them triumph nan Championship title successful 2024.

He made a imperishable move earlier their return to nan apical formation aft Leicester triggered an action to bargain him but missed nan mostly of nan 2024-25 play pinch a superior knee injury.

Now backmost successful nan Championship, Leicester person sold goalkeeper Mads Hermansen to West Ham for astir £20m, Wilfred Ndidi joined Besiktas for £9m and Conor Coady moved to Wrexham for £2m.