Sergej Jakirovic cites Sunderland blueprint for Hull’s Premier League rebuild | OneFootball

“Sunderland are my guiding principle; the club have done an excellent job of identifying, so to speak, cheaper but very good players, mainly in Belgium and France. If we were to get 120m for reinforcements, that’s a dream.”

He told Croatian outlet Sportske Novosti.

“I don’t believe we’ll have that much money available, but we’ll see. Basically, there are no more bans, we can pay transfer fees. We have a very good sporting director, Jared Dublin, who was a scout before and knows players inside out.”

Sunderland secured promotion to the Premier League with a Championship play-off final win against Sheffield United, then launched a bold summer. Club-record deals for Enzo Le Fee and Habib Diarra were followed by Robin Roefs, Brian Brobbey, Chemsdine Talbi and captain Granit Xhaka, and Regis Le Bris’ side secured Europa League football.

Hull beat Middlesbrough 1-0 in this season’s Championship play-off final to end a 10-year top-flight absence. They now head into the summer looking to strengthen.

Sunderland and Hull are reportedly competing to sign Charleroi midfielder Yacine Titraoui, with Marseille also believed to be interested.

Source: Sunderland Echo