ELIEZER MAYENDA
PLAYER PROFILE SUNDERLAND STRIKER
By Chris Dunlavy

SUNDERLAND’S failure to sign an established striker this summer left fans apoplectic, but Eliezer Mayenda is doing his best to quell the dissent.
Roundly dismissed as another out-of-his-depth teenage capture following a difficult period of adaptation in the wake of a £1m transfer from Sochaux last season, the 19-year-old suddenly looks like a proper Championship forward.
Mayenda scored twice against Sheffield Wednesday in Sunderland’s first game at the Stadium of Light, bagged a brace of assists i...