{"id":336094,"date":"2025-08-11T15:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336094\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T15:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:53:14","slug":"alan-shearer-delivers-his-verdict-on-sunderlands-premier-league-survival-hopes-after-transfer-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336094\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Shearer delivers his verdict on Sunderland’s Premier League survival hopes after transfer spree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Newcastle United legend Alan Shearer has delivered his verdict on whether Sunderland can survive in the Premier League this season. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunderland<\/a> have been one of the most active teams in the Premier League<\/a> transfer market, with 10 new signings boosting their hopes of staying in the top flight. <\/p>\n

As exclusively revealed by TBR Football<\/strong>, that will soon become 11 new arrivals as the club look set to land the signing of Omar Alderete<\/a> to bolster their defence ahead of the new season. <\/p>\n

Despite their busy transfer window, the Black Cats remain among the frontrunners for relegation, alongside their fellow newly-promoted sides Leeds United<\/a> and Burnley. <\/p>\n

Now, former Newcastle United<\/a> man Alan Shearer has tipped Sunderland to go straight back down despite their impressive transfer activity. <\/p>\n

\"ManchesterPhoto by James Gill \u2013 Danehouse\/Getty ImagesAlan Shearer tips Sunderland for relegation<\/p>\n

Speaking on The Rest is Football, Alan Shearer<\/a> offered his pessimistic assessment of Sunderland\u2019s hopes of remaining in the top flight. <\/p>\n

Asserting that all three newly-promoted sides will return to the Championship immediately, Shearer said: \u201cSame as the other promoted teams, I think [Sunderland] will struggle and it\u2019ll be really tough for them. So, I\u2019ve got them being relegated again.\u201d<\/p>\n

This view was backed by co-host and former Premier League defender Micah Richards, who added: \u201cYeah, me too. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think relegated only because they\u2019re bringing in so many players in such a short period of time to get them to gel and know exactly what they\u2019re doing. I think they\u2019ve had a right go.<\/p>\n

\u201cFair play to them, but yeah, I think it might just be too much for them, so I\u2019ve got them going down unfortunately.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although all three promoted teams have been busy in the transfer market as they desperately attempt to strengthen their squads, the odds are stacked against them bridging the gap.<\/p>\n

According to Opta<\/a>, the average number of points obtained by the three newly-promoted sides has dropped from just short of 45 in the Premier League\u2019s first season to 19.67 in the 2024\/25 season. <\/p>\n\nPremier League season<\/td>\nAverage Promoted team points total<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n24\/25<\/td>\n19.67<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n23\/24<\/td>\n22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n22\/23<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n21\/22<\/td>\n30.33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n20\/21<\/td>\n37.66<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Prior to the 2023\/24 season, all three promoted teams had been relegated just once in the history of the Premier League. It has now happened in back-to-back campaigns in a worrying trend. <\/p>\n

As such, all three of Burnley<\/a>, Leeds and Sunderland have a mountain to climb, as they look to defy the odds this season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle United legend Alan Shearer has delivered his verdict on whether Sunderland can survive in the Premier League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[11844,162,94,79,2958,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-336094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-alan-shearer","9":"tag-english-premier-league","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sunderland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115010941960042794","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}