Sunderland transfer news: Serie A target 'seriously considering' Black Cats switch this summer

Sunderland person reportedly received encouragement successful their pursuit of Roma attacker Matias Soule.

Regis Le Bris's troops are preparing for a run of home and continental enactment aft finishing sixth successful the Premier League past season, consequently qualifying for the League Phase of the Europa League.

Down successful the West Midlands, Unai Emery's Aston Villa are gearing up for a instrumentality to Champions League duties aft winning the Europa League successful 2025-26, ending their 30-year hold for a large trophy.

The Villans are looking to marque serious improvements to their squad up of enactment successful UEFA's elite nine competition, with France planetary Kouadio Kone supposedly of involvement to the Second City side.

On apical of that, Villa person besides been credited with an interest successful Kone's Roma teammate Soule, who enjoyed an awesome run successful Serie A past season, providing 11 extremity contributions crossed 33 appearances.

Sunderland person boost successful Soule search?

According to Italian outlet Corriere dello Sport via Sports Witness, Sunderland person been handed a large boost successful their pursuit of Roma youngster Soule, with a big of different clubs astir the globe besides admiring the player.

The study claims that the 23-year-old has already rejected lucrative advances from sides plying their commercialized successful the Saudi Pro League, with the attacker's penchant being to enactment successful Europe.

It is understood that Soule is excited the anticipation of a summertime transportation to the Premier League, and that a power to Europa League-bound Sunderland would beryllium 'seriously considered' by the Argentine.

Aiming to comply with fiscal restrictions, Roma are supposedly unfastened to a merchantability of six-goal Soule earlier the commencement of the caller campaign, with the Italian giants looking to pouch astatine least €35m (£29.7m) from immoderate imaginable deal.

Florent Ghisolfi - manager of shot astatine Sunderland - is fronting the Black Cats' propulsion for Soule having seen the attacker intimately whilst astatine Roma, with the left-footed playmaker viewed arsenic an 'ideal option' to bring much creativity into Le Bris's ranks.

Sunderland's seismic summer

With Europa League shot connected the horizon, it is imperative that Sunderland clasp onto their prima players this summer, whilst besides adding other bits of prime and extent to a close-knit squad.

The Black Cats were precocious boosted by the comments of skipper Granit Xhaka, who confirmed that helium volition stay astatine the Stadium of Light for adjacent play contempt involvement from Chelsea.

Le Bris's troops volition beryllium hopeful of besides retaining the services of all-action midfielder Noah Sadiki, with the DR Congo planetary linked to Michael Carrick's Manchester United this summer.