Salut! Sunderland extends a warm welcome to Jeremain Lens, our new signing from what Pete Sixsmith prefers to call Dinamo Kyiv, Monsieur Salut was effusive at ESPN – “precisely the player Sunderland lacked all last season, a man with the flair and pace to open up defences, set up strikers with chances and score goals” – and now Sixer introduces us to the player and the man …
The first major target of the transfer window was signed, sealed and delivered last night when Jeremain Lens penned a deal at the Stadium of Light, leaving the magnificent 70,000-capacity Valeri Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium for the only slightly less magnificent Stadium of Light.
He also leaves a country riven by civil war for the relative safety of the Costa del Wearside – unless he stumbles into Southwick on a Saturday night.