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Sunderland person completed nan signing of nan knowledgeable Belgium right-back Thomas Meunier connected a two-year woody arsenic Régis Le Bris’s squad measurement up preparations for a 2nd successive play successful nan Premier League alongside a Europa League campaign.
Meunier, who has conscionable returned from nan World Cup, has been capped 83 times by Belgium and was a free supplier aft nan expiration of his statement astatine Lille. The 34-year-old is Sunderland’s first summertime signing.
“I’m hugely excited and honoured to subordinate Sunderland,” said Meunier. “When I said pinch nan nine I was impressed by nan ambition, nan task and nan desire to support moving forward. Competing successful Europe was besides a large facet successful my decision. I dream I tin bring my acquisition to nan squad, some connected and disconnected nan pitch.”
During nan people of a profession featuring successful stints astatine Paris Saint-Germain and Borussia Dortmund, Meunier made 43 Champions League appearances and 33 Europa League appearances. At 6ft 3in he offers an amalgam of beingness beingness and attacking threat from correct backmost wherever he is apt to compete pinch Northern Ireland’s Trai Hume, pinch his presence perchance allowing Nordi Mukiele to relocate from afloat backmost to centre back.
