Youthful Sunderland need time to adapt and transfer reinforcements in summer window

With fifteen minutes gone in this season opener, it was hard not to sit back and just admire the way Sunderland had came out of the starting blocks, writes Sunderland fan Finlay Anderson for The Echo.

Jobe Bellingham moving around the turf like the youthful teen that he is with such ease and quality, Pierre Ekwah running the Corry Evans role in the centre of the park and Trai Hume and Dennis Cirkin inverting, joining each and every attack.