Aug 18, 2025, 04:38 AM ET<\/p>\n
Sunderland<\/a> are just shy of breaking the record for the biggest-spending newly promoted team in Premier League<\/a> history, with Sunday’s arrival of Nordi Mukiele<\/a> taking their overall spend to around \u00a3141.5m ($192m).<\/p>\n Mukiele, a 27-year-old defender, joined the Black Cats from Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> in a deal worth \u20ac11m, with \u20ac3m in performance-related add-ons.<\/p>\n The deal means Sunderland are just \u00a3500,000 shy of Nottingham Forest<\/a>‘s record \u00a3142m spend in the summer of 2022.<\/p>\n – Transfer rumors, news: Follow ESPN’s daily live blog<\/a> Mukiele represented Stade Lavallois, Montpellier and Bundesliga<\/a> outfit RB Leipzig<\/a> before joining PSG, while spending last season on loan at Bayer Leverkusen<\/a>.<\/p>\n He told the club’s official website: “It’s a new challenge and I’m happy to be here. I saw the atmosphere of the stadium, and this is something I really like.<\/p>\n “The fans are very important in football, and especially in Sunderland. I came here to fight for them. I see some good players and see their quality, so I believe that we can do something good together — and when I say together, I mean the players, the fans and the city. We will need everyone this season.”<\/p>\n Sunderland<\/a> earned an emphatic 3-0 win<\/a> over West Ham<\/a> on Saturday, getting their Premier League campaign off to a perfect start. They face Burnley<\/a> next on Saturday.<\/p>\n Information from PA contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 18, 2025, 04:38 AM ET Sunderland are just shy of breaking the record for the biggest-spending newly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-91516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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