Barnsley and QPR join the race to sign Adam Matthews The 27-year-old Sunderland defender is out of contract at the end of this season, and has lost his place at full-back to Luke O'Nien in recent months. Earlier this week, Pete O'Rourke from Football Insider reported that Championship side Sheffield Wednesday had set their sights on the Welsh international. And now the same journalist has claimed that Barnsley, who won promotion to the second tier this season, and QPR are also interested in Matthews. The defender joined the Black Cats in 2015 when Sunderland were a Premier League club, before two separate loan spells at Bristol City. With Matthews still one of the highest earners at Sunderland, it appears unlikely that he will be offered a new deal at the Stadium of Light. You can have him mate, we have better in the younguns we have , Denver Hume is twice the player at a fraction of the cost
Hard to miss something you never had, he's either injured or slowly recovering from injury. Even when fit he's no great shakes, he's got a brain and some quality on the ball but I prefer pace and physicality at RB and LB.
Get rid as far as I'm concerned too. Says it all for me that he can't even get in front of a CM playing out of position at RB.
He'll probably get a 3 or 4 year contract and retire a Millionaire. What a time to be a bang average footballer, John Kay would have eaten him.
If we go up we should be looking at getting a proper RB in anyway and like has already been said, the lad is a sick note. There's plenty of very good right backs across Europe that we could get on the cheap.
Are we seriously in the race? Hope not as others have said there's plenty of options around on lesser wages than him.
