Ka taƙaita labarin:  Sunderland na bin tsohon dan wasan gaba na Wigan Franco di Santo. Dan wasan na Argentina yana taka leda a Werder Bremen kuma ya ci kwallaye 13 a wasanni 22 a wannan kakar. Kungiyar Bundesliga na son £ 8million ga dan wasan mai shekaru 26 wanda darektan wasanni na Sunderland Lee Congerton ya san shi sosai daga lokacinsa a Chelsea. Sunderland na duba yiwuwar daukar dan wasan Werder Bremen Franco Di Santo a lokacin bazara. Dan wasan na Argentina ya kasance cikin kyakkyawan tsari ga kungiyarsa a wannan kakar, inda ya ci kwallaye 13 a wasanni 22. Di Santo ya fara babban aikinsa tare da kungiyar Chile ta Audax Italiano a 2006, kafin ya kama idanun Blues shekaru biyu bayan haka. Duk da haka, ya kasa yin tasiri a Stamford Bridge kuma bayan irin wannan bashi mai ban sha'awa a Blackburn Rovers, an sayar da shi zuwa Wigan a 2010. Ya shafe shekaru uku tare da kayan aikin Lancashire, inda ya zira kwallaye 13 a wasanni 97. Di Santo ya kasance mai maye gurbin da ba a yi amfani da shi ba a lokacin nasarar da kulob din ya yi a gasar cin kofin FA a kan Manchester City a shekarar 2013, kafin a sake shi a karshen wannan kakar. Ya yi ƙaura zuwa Bundesliga a watan Agusta 2013 kuma ya bayyana ya cika wasu alkawuransa na farko. Di Santo a baya ya buga wa Chelsea amma ya yi gwagwarmaya don yin tasiri a Stamford Bridge kuma an sayar da shi. Di Santo ya buga wa Wigan wasa na tsawon shekaru uku, inda ya ci kwallaye 13 a wasanni 97 kafin a sake shi.
Sunderland na sha'awar sayen tsohon dan wasan gaba na Chelsea da Wigan Franco Di Santo, wanda kwanan nan ya buga wasa a Werder Bremen. Di Santo a halin yanzu ana darajarsa da fam miliyan 8 ta kungiyar Bundesliga. Daraktan wasanni na Black Cats Lee Congerton ya san Di Santo daga lokacin da suke tare a Chelsea.