Sixer Says: everything you wanted to know about Jeremain Lens. And more

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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.

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Are Sunderland about to clinch Jeremain Lens deal?

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Now this really would be an exciting piece of transfer news.

No one at Salut! Sunderland wants to tempt fate, jump the gun, speak out of turn, count chickens or live up to a million other cliches.

But if reports are correct, the Netherlands international Jeremain Lens, an attacking midfielder with pace who can also play as second striker, is either having a medical at the Stadium of Light today or is in talks with the club.

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