Regis Le Bris under serious pressure at Sunderland as staggering figures are published
Sunderland boss Regis Le Bris is under serious to keep the club in the Premier League this season after Sunderland’s huge financial outlay this summer.
Le Bris joined Sunderland in 2024 from French club Lorient and guided the Black Cats to the Premier League via the Championship playoffs.
Sunderland’s start to life back in the Premier League couldn’t have gone any better as they triumphed 3-0 over a miserable West Ham United side.
A 2-0 loss away to Burnley hampered expectations but a 2-1 win over relegation rivals Brentford left the club on a high note heading into the international break.
Regis Le Bris needs to keep Sunderland up
As the Premier League’s spending climbed and climbed throughout the window, so did Sunderland’s.
Figures from Sky Sports have shown the league as a whole reached a whopping £3.19 billion in spending, over three times as much as the second highest league, Serie A.
One of the biggest Premier League spenders was Sunderland, whose £183.4m summer spend has them seventh highest in the league.
Sunderland’s spend was also the seventh highest in Europe as a whole, with the nearest continental club being Atletico Madrid with a spend of £151.3m.
To add even more eye-watering context to the numbers, the Wearside club had a net spend that was double that of Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain.
Sunderland need to prove spending was worthwhile
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Sunderland, alongside fellow promoted sides, Leeds United and Burnley are searching to be the first promoted sides to stay up in the Premier League in two seasons.
All three have raced to their first league wins in double the time any side managed it last season, while Sunderland have amassed almost a quarter of Leicester’s points from the entirety of last season already.
| Team | Points |
| Leicester City | 25 |
| Ipswich Town | 22 |
| Southampton | 12 |
Having broken the bank big time, Sunderland are understandably the favourites to make the best case for earning survival.
However, this side will have to overcome both the 24 point gap they had to second-placed Burnley last season as well as the ever-growing gap between the Championship and the Premier League if they’re to put that spending to justifiable use this season.