The challenge promises to be immense for Sunderland. Back in the Premier League for the first time since the 2016/2017 season, the Tyne and Wear club wants to do better than the last promoted. Indeed, whether Luton Town, Burnley and Sheffield United in 2023/2024 then Leicester, Ipswich Town and Southampton in 2024/2025, they will have made the elevator directly. After an ambitious transfer window, Sunderland put the means to ward off bad luck with 187.9 million euros paid and interesting arrivals such as Habib Diarra (Strasbourg), Simon Adingra (Brighton), Enzo Le Fée (AS Roma), Brian Brobbey (Ajax Amterdam), Chemsdine Talbi (FC Bruges), Noah Sadiki (Union Saint-Gilloise), Xhaka granite (Bayer Leverkusen), Nordi Mukiele (Paris Saint-Germain), Omar Alderete (Getafe), Robin Roefs (Nec Nimègue), Bertrand Traoré (Ajax Amsterdam), Reinildo (Atlético), Arthur Masuaku (Besiktas) or Lutsharel Geertruida (RB Leipzig).
And the former coach of Lorient, the French RĂ©gis Le Bris has for the moment managed to build coherent training. Fifth of the Premier League, the Black Cats have already won three games against West Ham (3-0), Brentford (2-1) and Nottingham Forest (1-0). Before facing Manchester United this Saturday, Sunderland will have the opportunity to continue his harvest of points for maintenance. And among the flagship players of this start to the season, a Frenchman stands out offensively, it is Wilson Isidor. The 25 -year -old French striker is a known face of our French championship since he was trained in Rennes before starting in professional with AS Monaco (12 games) where he was loaned with little success in Laval (14 matches, 1 goal and 1 assist), but more success in FC Borgo (16 goals and 1 decisive pass in 30 matches). Behind, he made the choice to go to Russia to the Lokomotiv Moscow (42 games, 19 goals and 7 assists). An interesting experience which led him to then join the Zenit in September 2023. Remained a season where he will have scored 4 goals in 26 appearances, he will have made the tripled championship, cup and supercup before joining Sunderland.
Wilson Isidor as a fish in water with RĂ©gis le Bris and Sunderland
Loaned with purchase option in the summer of 2024 in the Championship club under the leadership of the new coach RĂ©gis Le Bris, it will be definitively signed in winter against 6 million euros. It must be said that his season was interesting. The center-born born in Rennes will have played 46 matches for 13 goals and 2 assists. With confidence with the one he had known to the Breton training center and had tried to bring him to Lorient, Wilson Isidor was one of the craftsmen of the promotion of Black Cats. “”Of course we can maintain, and we're going to do it. When I signed here, I told everyone that we were going to go up in the Premier League. So it's not a surprise. But I am very proud to get there, (…) Of course it was one of the greatest achievements of my life“, He confided to the podcast Football Daily on the Bbc. From there to imagine him to succeed in the Premier League? A step that the 25 -year -old had to take …
Especially since he was not scheduled to be a holder this season. Replacing behind Eliezer Mayenda during the first three games, he scored twice as a joker against West Ham (3-0) and Brentford (2-1). A super sub valued status by Marco Gabbiadini, former Sunderland player: “There are actually quite a bit in the Premier League at the moment. When Isidor arrived at the club for the first time, he needed to improve his physical condition and his strength, but he did.“Having become a holder on the last three black cats in the Premier League, he marked against Aston Villa (1-1). With three goals scored, he is the French top scorer of the Premier League with Hugo Ekitike. He also offered a little record.
Each time a scorer at the Stadium of Light, he became the first player in the history of the Premier League to score in each of the first three home games of the season of a newly promoted team. A sacred tour de force for the one who wore the jersey of France from the U17 to the U20. “”Here, it goes very well for me, I am very happy with my situation. I was 2nd or even 3rd in the hierarchy of attackers at the start, but I did not lose my determination. I have to show that I deserve my place“, He recently told the Parisian. He also received the praises of his former coach in Monaco and favorite player Thierry Henry: “It was a wonderful surprise! He wrote to me on Instagram to congratulate me, he told me that he had to continue and that he had really liked my celebration at the corner post. It was a way to pay tribute to him. To celebrate his first goal in the Premier League as his favorite player, there is nothing more beautiful.Wilson Isidor saw an awakening dream in Sunderland at the start of the season. Good news for black cats in their maintenance mission.
