Sunderland handed huge Enzo Le Fee update as £19m Roma star makes U-turn on Wearside move.
Sunderland’s latest transfer target is Enzo Le Fee. The midfielder left Rennes for Roma in a £19million move just a few months ago, but now, he could be about to make a shock move to Wearside and aid Sunderland’s promotion push.
Regis Le Bris and Enzo Le Fee worked together at Lorient in Ligue 1. Le Fee left for Rennes in 2023 and then left Rennes for Roma in 2024, though the French midfielder has managed just six Serie A appearances since.
Meanwhile at Sunderland, Le Bris has shone. Sunderland beat Portsmouth 1-0 in their last outing and Sheffield United 2-1 in the game before that, leaving just three points between themselves in 4th and Leeds United in 1st place of the Championship table.
Le Fee has emerged as a target for Sunderland for this January transfer window. It’s seemed like an unlikely target so far, but Le Fee pulled out of a move to Real Betis to give Sunderland a glimmer of hope of getting the deal done.
Now, it looks like Sunderland have more than a glimmer of hope of signing Le Fee on loan from Claudio Ranieri’s Roma.
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Enzo Le Fee of Lorient, left Vitinha of PSG during the Ligue 1 Uber Eats match between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and FC Lorient at Parc des Princes…
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Enzo Le Fee to Sunderland is getting closer
Italian outlet Calcio Mercato are reporting that Le Fee and Le Bris have held talks over a possible loan switch to the Stadium of Light, and that ‘contacts between the two have been positive’.
The same report adds that ‘the deal is getting closer to being closed’ and that it is ‘in the final stages’, with the deal being an initial loan move. Sunderland are ‘aiming to close the deal quickly’.
On Tuesday, it was claimed that Le Fee turned down Sunderland’s initial approach. Though it now seems like he’s changed his mind about a possible move to Wearside, which now looks to be very much in the making.
