Asamoah Gyan has expressed his delight at joining ‘an important club’ in Al-Ain after his mega-money move. The striker completed a shock loan switch from Sunderland to the United Arab Emirates over the weekend and was unveiled at the Khalifa Bin Zayed Stadium this morning. In the world’s most expensive loan-deal, Sunderland will receive a…

Titus Bramble has insisted that Sunderland boss Steve Bruce retains the support of the players following the club’s difficult start to the season. The Black Cats have yet to win in their opening four Premier League games and were also knocked out of the Carling Cup by Championship highfliers Brighton. They have lost both matches…

According to Sunderland boss Steve Bruce, Asamoah Gyan stood in his office 48 hours before his team were due to play Chelsea and committed himself to the club. A mere 48 hours later however, Gyan had negotiated a transfer away from the club which stunned Sunderland players and fans alike. Bruce stated in an interview…

With Chelsea having been labelled in the past as a fairly ‘old’ team – it seems new boss Andre Villas-Boas is determined to install a new type of urgency to his team's play this season. Yesterday’s win against Sunderland was Chelsea’s third straight win in the Premier League and after they laboured to victories over…

Saturday 10 September – Barclays Premier League A strong Chelsea performance coupled with a clever Daniel Sturridge back-heel gave them all three points as they beat Sunderland 2-1 at the Stadium of Light. Sunderland: Mignolet, Bardsley (Elmohamady 62 min), Brown, Richardson, Bramble, Cattermole (Wickham 65 min), Larsson, Gardner, Colback, Sessegnon (Dong 82 min), Bendtner. Chelsea: Cech,…

Saturday 10 September 3 pm KO - Barclays Premier League Sunderland Pre-Match Report Sunderland find themselves in the bottom half of the table having failed to win any of their three outings and manager Steve Bruce will be desperate to get their season up and running. The omens do not bode well for the club…

Barclays Premier League highlights Sunderland 1-2 Chelsea highlights Sa 10 Sep 2011 FULL-TIME Sunderland 1-2 Chelsea Sunderland v Chelsea line-ups Sunderland: Mignolet, Bardsley, Bramble, Brown, Richardson, Larsson, Cattermole, Gardner, Colback, Sessegnon, Bendtner. Subs: Westwood, Wickham, Vaughan, Ji, Turner, Elmohamady, McClean. Chelsea: Cech, Bosingwa, Ivanovic, Terry, Cole, Mata, Lampard, Ramires, Meireles, Sturridge, Anelka. Subs: Hilario, Luiz,…

Chelsea’s young pretenders Josh McEachran and Romelu Lukaku may be allowed to leave the club on loan if they do not play enough games this year. Although Stamford Bridge boss Andre Villas-Boas rates the duo extremely highly, he fears their progress could be hampered by a lack of regular football this season. Villas-Boas will allow both 18-year-olds to…

INS: Connor Wickham (Ipswich £8.1m), Craig Gardner (Birmingham, £8m), John O'Shea (Man Utd, £4m), Ahmed Elmohamady (ENPPL, £3m), Ji Dong-won (Chunnam Dragons, £2m), Wes Brown (Man Utd, £2m), James McLean (Derry, £350,000), Keiren Westwood (Coventry, free), Sebastian Larsson (Birmingham, free), David Vaughan (Blackpool, free). Loan: Nicklas Bendtner (Arsenal). Sunderland have had the busiest transfer window…

Arsenal have completed the signing of Everton midfielder Mikel Arteta on a four-year-contract. In a game of tug-of-war between the two sides, the move seemed to be on, and then off in very quick succession. Arteta handed in a transfer request when he heard of the Arsenal interest however and managed to force a late…

Queens Park Rangers have agreed a fee with Sunderland for the transfer of defender Anton Ferdinand. Rangers boss Neil Warnock has already secured Joey Barton and Luke Young and has been quoted today as saying he expects at least four new faces at the club by the end of the day. Ferdinand only had one…

Peter Crouch is at the centre of a £12 million tug of war between Sunderland and Stoke. The two clubs have made identical bids for the Tottenham striker with the transfer window set to slam shut tonight. Crouch has until 11pm tonight to decide which offer he would like to take – as there seems…