Steven Fletcher “We’ve had two good performances against Newcastle now this season, we all worked for each other.”

Sunderland confirm that they have released four players, any use in the Championship for Newcastle?

Florian Thauvin and Steven Fletcher combined to put Marseille into French Cup Final v PSG.

Difficult to imagine it would have been a worse option to stick with Remy Cabella at Newcastle rather than Florian Thauvin’s arrival.

Fit again, though lacking match practice, Taylor would be facing a team made up of players who, apart from striker Steven Fletcher, Taylor has claimed previously would not be good enough to make it into Newcastle’s starting XI.

In addition, their captain Lee Cattermole is also out until next season, though how much of a miss he will be to the visitors is open to question, considering his idiotic behaviour in previous matches.