Tony Mowbray says Sunderland are trying to push through a couple of transfer deals to add to the new recruits already in place. The Black Cats head coach was delighted to have four new faces - Jobe Bellingham, Hemir Semedo, Necatrios Triantis, and Jenson Seelt - in place before the players returned to the Academy of Light for pre-season training a fortnight ago.
But the squad is still understrength in some key areas, not least as far as strikers are concerned with Portuguese teenager Hemir currently the club's only fit senior frontman, as Ross Stewart continues his recovery from injury. Mowbray has repeatedly insisted that the club's priority must be to bring in more firepower ahead of the start of the season, and while transfers are principally the domain of sporting director Kristjaan Speakman and head of recruitment Stuart Harvey, he says the club has a couple of things 'in the pipeline'.
"Saying things are in the pipeline is good," Mowbray said following the weekend's friendly wins against South Shields and Gateshead. "I'm aware of a few situations we're trying to push on.
