Sunderland supporters would have been forgiven for watching Sam Greenwood score for Leeds United last weekend and feel somewhat aggrieved. The former Academy of Light trainee left Wearside for a reported fee of £500,000 at the tender age of 16 to join Arsenal.
He would join the Whites after just one year in London and the England youth international has gone from strength to strength since making the reported £1.5 million move to Thorp Arch in 2020. Greenwood was a striker coming through the ranks earlier in his career, but has dropped into a deeper role under the tutelage of Jesse Marsch.
The goal against the Cherries is the latest feather in his cap after outgrowing the Under-21s set-up a year early. Greenwood is among a few former Sunderland academy prospects to leave Wearside and begin to make a name for themselves.
