{"id":51325,"date":"2024-05-30T21:01:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T04:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=51325"},"modified":"2024-05-30T21:01:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T04:01:12","slug":"free-agents-who-sunderland-afc-must-consider-saman-ghoddos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/05\/30\/free-agents-who-sunderland-afc-must-consider-saman-ghoddos\/","title":{"rendered":"Free agents who Sunderland AFC must consider [Saman Ghoddos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footballleagueworld.co.uk &#8211; LONDON, <strong>With the regular Championship season concluded, Sunderland&#8217;s attention will now have firmly turned to the summer transfer window, and there are plenty of free agents that they should be looking at.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is a time of transition at the Stadium of Light with a new manager set to arrive over the summer, and players who are out of contract can be a great way to refresh a squad without hurting the budget too much.<\/p>\n<p>With a couple of key players also linked with moves away from the Black Cats, some on this list may come as low-cost quality replacements.<\/p>\n<p>Here, FLW looks at free agents that Sunderland should be looking at this summer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saman Ghoddos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saman Ghoddos had originally been released at the expiry of his previous Brnetford deal last summer, but was months later re-signed for a further year with the Bees, taking him up to the end of this season &#8211; where it was announced he would once again depart.<\/p>\n<p>Providing that announcement holds this time around, Sunderland may be intrigued by his status as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Following stints in Sweden and France, the 50-cap Iran international moved to Brentford when they were in the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing 43 times across the regular season and the play-offs of that pivotal campaign, Ghoddos was instrumental in getting the Bees promoted to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old therefore has experience that aligns perfectly with the Black Cats&#8217; objectives, along with Premier League pedigree, and could prove to be a bargain as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>The attacking midfielder has played numerous positions throughout his career, making him a real asset for squad management, but his natural position is one that may need strengthening with Bradley Dack departing and Jobe Bellingham receiving substantial interest.<\/p>\n<p>He may be another one who is not a top priority at the Stadium of Light, but he would certainly add something to an area of the squad that may soon become a bit thin, and he would do so for a relatively low price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footballleagueworld.co.uk &#8211; LONDON, With the regular Championship season concluded, Sunderland&#8217;s attention will now have firmly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":51326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,212,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iranian-legionnaires","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1635,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51327,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51325\/revisions\/51327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}