Chris Dunlavy puts the spotlight on Sunderland's vision for the future

SUNDERLAND have come a long way since the days when hapless CEO Martin Bain stared incredulously at a list of transfer targets that included Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
“Found some money, have you?” he asks academy manager Jimmy Sinclair in one of several excruciating scenes from the Netflix documentary Sunderland ‘Til I Die.
Another, from series two, shows then-manager Jack Ross begging owner Stewart Donald not to offer more than £1.25m for Wigan’s Will Grigg.
“If you’re getting him for that money, it’s a good offer,” Ross i...