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The Irish Sun
3 days ago
- Business
- The Irish Sun
Sunderland promotion bonuses revealed as Jobe Bellingham and co share out huge £7.75m for reaching Premier League
A STUNNING £7.75million was split by Sunderland's promotion winners for reaching the Prem. Skipper Dan Neil and cult hero 2 Sunderland's playoff heroes have bagged a huge promotion bonus Credit: Shutterstock Editorial 2 Luke O'Nien is among those to bag £500k for taking the Black Cats back to the Prem Credit: Shutterstock Editorial The system is based on the number of games played in the campaign under Wearsiders' boss Each player received shares in the windfall. Starters were given four per game, subs received two and non-playing men on the bench got one. Neil and O'Nien, injured in the READ MORE ON FOOTBALL Most of the squad played a large chunk of games, so will earn between £400,000 and £500,000. That is a large boost to pay packets, with young Even after tax, that should mean a terrific bonus for the players who took the Black Cats to glory. The total available in the initial bonus system for the playing staff was £8m if they finished top. Most read in Sport BEST ONLINE CASINOS - TOP SITES IN THE UK But the consolation of winning the play-offs was just £250,000 less. That is a huge result for the players, who saw the club bring in extra income with the three play-off games. Sky Sports forced to apologise as Sunderland star swears on live TV after last touch for club earns them promotion The £7.75m is higher than many other sides offered in recent years and also dwarfs the figure paid out by League One play-off winners Charlton. Addicks only handed out £750,000 in bonuses among the players on a similar pro rata basis. SunSport revealed on Sunday that The Italian giants are keen on the hard-running midfielder who is aware of their interest and a £15million deal could be thrashed out. Neil's move would rock Sunderland, though, who are preparing to lose teenager The 19-year-old is already talking to clubs in Germany.
The Sun
3 days ago
- Business
- The Sun
Sunderland promotion bonuses revealed as Jobe Bellingham and co share out huge £7.75m for reaching Premier League
A STUNNING £7.75million was split by Sunderland's promotion winners for reaching the Prem. Skipper Dan Neil and cult hero Luke O'Nien finished top of the table for appearances and will pick up more than £500,000 each. 2 2 The system is based on the number of games played in the campaign under Wearsiders' boss Regis Le Bris, who had his own personal jackpot. Each player received shares in the windfall. Starters were given four per game, subs received two and non-playing men on the bench got one. Neil and O'Nien, injured in the 2-1 Wembley play-off final win over Sheffield United, made 48 and 49 first-team starts respectively to qualify for the highest return. Most of the squad played a large chunk of games, so will earn between £400,000 and £500,000. That is a large boost to pay packets, with young Chris Rigg, 17, in line for around £400k - which is roughly the same as his basic salary. Even after tax, that should mean a terrific bonus for the players who took the Black Cats to glory. The total available in the initial bonus system for the playing staff was £8m if they finished top. BEST ONLINE CASINOS - TOP SITES IN THE UK But the consolation of winning the play-offs was just £250,000 less. That is a huge result for the players, who saw the club bring in extra income with the three play-off games. Sky Sports forced to apologise as Sunderland star swears on live TV after last touch for club earns them promotion The £7.75m is higher than many other sides offered in recent years and also dwarfs the figure paid out by League One play-off winners Charlton. Addicks only handed out £750,000 in bonuses among the players on a similar pro rata basis. SunSport revealed on Sunday that Roma are poised to make a shock move for Sunderland skipper Neil. The Italian giants are keen on the hard-running midfielder who is aware of their interest and a £15million deal could be thrashed out. Neil's move would rock Sunderland, though, who are preparing to lose teenager Bellingham. The 19-year-old is already talking to clubs in Germany.
The Irish Sun
3 days ago
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
Sunderland captain Dan Neil, 23, lined up for shock £15m transfer to Serie A giants with Jobe Bellingham also set to go
ITALIANS Roma are poised to make a shock move for Sunderland skipper Dan Neil. South Shields-born Neil, 23, led the Black Cats back to the Premier League via the play-offs last week — but could now be off to Serie A. 4 Dan Neil helped his boyhood club to Prem promotion Credit: Getty British players are respected in Italy right now off the back of Scott McTominay and Billy Gilmour helping Neil's move would rock Sunderland, though, who are already preparing to lose The 19-year-old is already talking to clubs in Germany and likely to leave in the aftermath of their 2-1 win over READ MORE TRANSFER NEWS Bellingham joined the Black Cats for £3m in 2023. The midfielder has since played 90 times, scoring 11 goals. He is a regular for Speaking Most read in Football BEST ONLINE CASINOS - TOP SITES IN THE UK 4 Jobe Bellingham was a key figure for Sunderland this season Credit: Shutterstock Editorial "When you've got supporters like this and a group of lads like that, you always have to believe. "I always believed and I know people doubted us and that's understandable, we lost a few games, people talk about momentum. Jobe Bellingham takes swipe at Sky Sports pundits in live TV interview before awkward moment with panel at Wembley "But I think we did enough, we showed enough throughout the season for people to at least give us some credit going into the play-offs. "The typical 'inexperienced' by all the ex-pros that speak on Sky but we've just proved that don't matter. "You need experience, of course, with youth like at Sunderland you play loads of games you get that experience. "You get experience by failing and we failed together so many times and in the end we come good." Neil, meanwhile, burst onto the scene after debuting in 2018. The all-action midfielder has since become captain of his boyhood club. Neil has played 197 times for Sunderland, scoring 12 goals and laying on 20 assists. 4 4
The Sun
3 days ago
- Business
- The Sun
Sunderland captain Dan Neil, 23, lined up for shock £15m transfer to Serie A giants with Jobe Bellingham also set to go
ITALIANS Roma are poised to make a shock move for Sunderland skipper Dan Neil. South Shields-born Neil, 23, led the Black Cats back to the Premier League via the play-offs last week — but could now be off to Serie A. 2 Roma are keen on the hard-running midfielder who is aware of their interest and a £15million deal could be thrashed out. British players are respected in Italy right now off the back of Scott McTominay and Billy Gilmour helping Napoli to the title. Neil's move would rock Sunderland, though, who are already preparing to lose Jobe Bellingham. The 19-year-old is already talking to clubs in Germany and likely to leave in the aftermath of their 2-1 win over Sheffield United. Bellingham joined the Black Cats for £3m in 2023. The midfielder has since played 90 times, scoring 11 goals. He is a regular for England 's age group sides, and has so far earned four caps at Under-21 level. Speaking after winning promotion last week, Bellingham told Sky Sports: "I always believed, you have to believe. BEST ONLINE CASINOS - TOP SITES IN THE UK 2 "When you've got supporters like this and a group of lads like that, you always have to believe. "I always believed and I know people doubted us and that's understandable, we lost a few games, people talk about momentum. Jobe Bellingham takes swipe at Sky Sports pundits in live TV interview before awkward moment with panel at Wembley "But I think we did enough, we showed enough throughout the season for people to at least give us some credit going into the play-offs. "The typical 'inexperienced' by all the ex-pros that speak on Sky but we've just proved that don't matter. "You need experience, of course, with youth like at Sunderland you play loads of games you get that experience. "You get experience by failing and we failed together so many times and in the end we come good." Neil, meanwhile, burst onto the scene after debuting in 2018. The all-action midfielder has since become captain of his boyhood club. Neil has played 197 times for Sunderland, scoring 12 goals and laying on 20 assists.
The Independent
25-05-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
How Sunderland's talent for surprise can help them survive in the Premier League
They have been to Accrington more recently than Anfield, Cheltenham more recently than Chelsea. They played Morecambe, not Manchester United, AFC Wimbledon not Arsenal. The fixture list bore an incongruous look with Fleetwood and Burton, Rochdale and Scunthorpe. Sunderland were slumming it, the club marooned in League One for four seasons. They would happily get stuck in a division again; now that, as the chant went, they are Premier League, the return to the elite sealed in spectacular fashion at Wembley. For manager Regis Le Bris, whose players had told him earlier in the season they wanted to get promoted, 'they believed in their dream'. Captain Dan Neil demurred, arguing the way in which Sunderland went up was 'not even what dreams are made of because you wouldn't dream of something like that'. Not when Dan Ballard's 122nd-minute decider against Coventry was followed by Tommy Watson's 95th-minute Wembley winner against Sheffield United. After the dream – or the drama deemed too surreal to even figure in a dream – comes the reality. The prize for promotion involves predictions of an immediate relegation. Should he stay, the chances are that Jobe Bellingham will notice the pessimistic prognostications. 'People doubted us,' he said, after Sunderland stumbled into the play-offs with five successive defeats, only to win them. 'People say we are inexperienced but you get experience by failing and we have failed together so many times and in the end we've come good.' Experienced beyond their tender years, they are Sunderland's most successful failures for many a year. Recent history bodes badly. Sunderland's most recent Premier League campaign, with a squad with far more pedigree and a manager, in David Moyes, with a track record of top-eight finishes, yielded a mere 24 points. The last six teams to go up from the Premier League have gone straight back down, none even touching the 30-point barrier. The last play-off winners, Southampton, got a mere 12 points. Sunderland were in League One in 2021-22. They came 16th in the Championship last season. It is easy to write them off. Not necessarily correct, though. A glimpse at this season's trophy winners shows football is not inevitable; Sunderland's recent past, this year included, shows a wild unpredictability. The next step is the biggest but, like Leeds, they have the potential to be much more than a yo-yo club; if, that is, they can get a foothold in the Premier League. Ipswich could not, despite spending almost £150m; Leicester and Southampton took the combined expenditure of 2024's promoted trio past £300m with little to show for it. Sunderland will have to be smart in the transfer market. But they have been. They became a club for the ageing and the overpaid in the 2010s, dodging the drop until they became the unhappy underachievers. They have a new identity, borrowing in part from Brighton and Brentford: buy young, buy good. They had Wembley starters aged 17, 19 and 20 in the homegrown Chris Rigg, Bellingham and the scorer Eliezer Mayenda. The teenager Watson is off to Brighton but it will be instructive if promotion means Sunderland can prevent Borussia Dortmund from replenishing their stock of precocious Bellinghams. Remain in the Championship and it felt probable they would be weakened by sales. Instead, promotion will trigger a permanent deal to sign the classy Enzo Le Fee from Roma. He is one of a group who have the talent to perform at the higher level. Time will tell if promotion is well timed for the progress of Mayenda, Rigg, Romaine Mundle and Wilson Isidor. Others have underpinned the rise. The heart and soul of this team, Anthony Patterson, Dennis Cirkin, Luke O'Nien and Neil, were stalwarts of Sunderland's League One side. Some of the Ipswich players who jumped two divisions in quicker succession acquitted themselves reasonably; for most, however, it was a step too far as they went down. The probability is that Sunderland will require an injection of some experience; goals, too, as they only mustered 58 in 46 league games. That their defensive record is rather better than Ipswich and Southampton's were 12 months earlier at least offers hope they can exhibit more pragmatism and solidity. The pragmatic argument may be that even parachute payments from coming up and going back down again can be transformative. In a different era, that was what Sunderland did: their first poke at the Premier League under Peter Reid ended swiftly but, when they went up again, they promptly finished seventh. The gulf between the divisions has grown too great for a repeat. Now 17th would represent a success in an era when the fate of the promoted is to be celebrating one year and commiserating the next. But rewind 10 months and many an assumption was that Sunderland would be somewhere in mid-table, perhaps an outside bet for the play-offs if a young team gelled under a newcomer of a manager. They confounded expectations then. The challenge is to do so again.
