http://www.safc.com/news/team-news/2014/august/rodwell-joins-sunderland Club News Ticket News Dev Squad & Academy Features Ladies . Rodwell joins Sunderland Published: 05 August, 2014 by Stuart Vose OFFICIAL: Midfielder signs five-year contract. Sunderland have completed the signing of midfielder Jack Rodwell from Barclays Premier League champions Manchester City. The highly sought-after 23-year-old has penned a five-year deal on Wearside and joins for an undisclosed fee. Rodwell rose through the ranks at Everton, making his debut at the age of 16 in a European tie against AZ Alkmaar in December 2007. His league bow – as a substitute against Sunderland at the Stadium of Light – came three months later before the Southport-born midfielder went on to become a regular for the Toffees. Rodwell, who has been capped on three occasions at senior level by England, made 109 appearances for Everton before joining Manchester City in summer 2012. He spent two seasons at the Etihad Stadium, during which time he represented City in the UEFA Champions League as well as the Barclays Premier League and domestic cup competitions.
i tell you what having the pope as a fan really helps out, praise the ****ing lord! a signing to go straight into the first team!!!
need to get to the vatican and ask him to do something about borni and another cb sweeten the deal by taking him a new home and away shirt
Class signing & hopefully the lad plays on Thursday. Still tickets left so get yourself over to the ticket office lads.
A bit of quality and a step up from the players we have signed in the middle of the park in the past. Only young too. Well chuffed with this. Just what we needed in the middle someone with some height and pace. I can see this being a perfect fit to play with either Catts or Bridcutt.
Let's just hope some of our fans don't demand 2 goals a game and him to beat everything and everybody. Let's be optimistic but realistic. He is a very good player, we should be seeing some good football, great link play, through balls and hopefully some goals. Really good signing, looking forward to seeing him play.
I don't Assuming Catts and Bridcutt will be used solely as DM's, we have: Alfie, Seb, Rodwell, Gomez and Giacc (who could be used mainly as a winger) to fill two cm's spots, I think he has a part to play & the fact Gus took him to Portugal supports that
Alf look likely to leave I agree. I think Ba will be inloved a lot more though. Kind of playes his way in over in Portugal
