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Corry Evans and Bradley Dack will leave Sunderland next month after their contracts expire.
Both players suffered injuries which limited their involvement in the Black Cats season, and they are the big names to be left off the club’s retained list.
Evans, 33, was a key member of the team that won promotion back to the Championship in 2022 after four seasons in League One.
He suffered an anterior cruciate
Wednesday carved out the first chance inside 15 minutes, dispossessing the hosts before Josh Windass crossed to the back post for the onrushing Anthony Musaba, who couldn’t guide his shot on target.
Just before the half hour mark, Palmer slammed the visitors into the lead. Incisive build-up play involving Windass and Bannan released him inside the box, and he finished from a tight angle.
With half time in sight, a
Sunderland legend Charlie Hurley has died at the age of 87.
The defender was named the club’s player of the century in 1979 and made a total of 401 appearances for the Wearsiders between 1957 and 1969.
He also won 40 caps for Republic of Ireland and later went on to manage Reading.
“Charlie adored Sunderland and Sunderland will always adore him,” the club said in a statement., external
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Sunderland have announced that chief operating officer Steve Davison will leave at the end of the season.
The lifelong supporter will step down just over three years after taking the post during the 2020-21 season.
Davison has overseen non-football affairs as Sunderland gained promotion back to the Championship.
Chairman Kyril Louis-Dreyfus told the club website that “his contribution ensures
Sunderland defender Jenson Seelt will require an operation to correct a knee injury and faces “six to nine months out” following scans.
However, he will now miss pre-season and at least the first couple of months of 2024-25 in his recovery.
“It was the worst case scenario for Jenson really,” interim boss Mike Dodds told
Sunderland defender Aji Alese has signed a new deal to remain with the Championship side until the end of the 2026-27 season.
The 23-year-old moved to Wearside from West Ham United in the summer of 2022 and has made a total of 27 appearances.
Alese has been limited to just three appearances for the Black Cats this
Sunderland will have some timely returnees for the double-header over Easter to help reverse their Championship slump, said Mike Dodds.
Saturday’s stalemate with QPR ended a six-game losing run for the Wearsiders, but it is now seven games since their most recent win over Plymouth Argyle.
The slide has coincided with the absence
Sunderland will introduce two safe-standing areas as part of a “multi-million pound investment” at the Stadium of Light for next season.
The Wearsiders will turn over 2,000 seats at the Roker End and another 1,000 in the upper North Stand into standing spaces for supporters.
Clubs were permitted safe-standing
Substitute Joe Rothwell scored a late double as Southampton survived a Sunderland fightback to keep their slim hopes of automatic promotion back to the Premier League alive.
The Saints, who had their midweek game against Preston postponed at late notice because of a fire on a nearby industrial estate, took an early lead when Stuart
