Sunderland have signed Michael Chopra from Cardiff City on a four-year deal.
The former Newcastle striker joins the newly promoted Mackems for a fee believed to around £5 million, after scoring 22 league goals for Cardiff last season.
He becomes Roy Keane's third signing for Sunderland in the close-season, following the capture of defensive duo Russell Anderson from Aberdeen and Greg Halford from Reading.
"He's a natural goalscorer who will bring competition with our other quality strikers to the side," said Keane.
"I'm very confident he will score goals for this football club."
Keane doing a bit of squad building. I wouldn't expect Chopra to be a top of the line guy as he never showed that he has what it takes when he was at NUFC, and because I think Sunderland will be happy just to stay up this season. Regardless of whether or not Chopra is ready to make the leap, Keane showed last year that he likes to play a lot of players, keeping the fresh, and on their toes.
All that being said, let's not forget about Dean Whitehead. Great (relatively speaking) season in the Premiership when Sunderland were just HORRIBLE around him. And he didn't let up last year even though he was once again playing in the Championship. Depending on his price tag (and as he is a player with Premiership history, you never can tell how Yahoo! will value him) he could be a fantasy sleeper again this season.
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