Sunderland were dealt a third straight defeat on Tuesday night when they lost to the almost perfect Leicester City. The Black Cats have now slipped to 10th place, but they remain within a point of the playoffs.
Tony Mowbray’s men will now look to get their promotion bid back on track when they take on Norwich City this weekend. Looking further ahead, the Black Cats will likely need to strengthen this January should they wish to mount a serious promotion bid, and here we have taken a look at some of the free agents they could sign for free this winter.
But the head coach stated the £250,000 Sunderland signing’s attitude to being frozen out means he will look at using 27-year-old.
‘There’s nothing which will prevent us using him if we have to, so it’s a nice option to have considering Connor’s injury.
‘He’s been great. He trains every day and he comes in and does the sessions on matchdays with the lads who aren’t in the squad.‘Denver keeps himself fit and keeps himself ticking over and ready. It must be a pretty tough place to be, to be honest, because he hasn’t played any league football since last season at the back end of April when we played Morecambe.’Hume has started just 11 league games amid 29 appearances since signing for Pompey 22 months ago. Mousinho feels a January exit would still be the right move for him, with his deal up next summer.
He added: ‘It’s a difficult situation to be in for Denver.
‘Hopefully we can sort something in January, but if we have him in the building between now and then because of the way he’s conducted himself I think he’s a good option to have. It’s a tough squad to break into at the moment, but we wouldn’t have any worries doing that if we thought it was the right thing to do with Denver.’
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