Can Moyes hit the back of the net with new signings?

BOSS HAS TO USE EXPERIENCE TO REBUILD

EVEN if they stay in the Premier League next season, Sunderland are facing yet another rebuild. David Moyes has already admitted as much.

The Scot was brought to Wearside to rip things up and start again. History shows you he takes his time in the transfer market, so this summer was always going to be the time he stamped his mark on the squad.

Moyes has already spoken about the need to put an identity onto the hotch-potch of players that has come about through years of managerial upheaval.

He will, though, have to work within a tight budget. Owner Ellis Short has been looking to sell the club, though he might put that on hold if – as now seems almost certain – they are relegated to the Championship.

Sunderland have debts of around £140m and will lose 10 senior players on free transfers, with another three returning to their parent clubs at the end of loans. Many will not be mourned, but they will still have to be replaced for the 46-game slog of a Championship season.

As someone who has always invested a lot of belief in young- sters, Moyes will be looking to the under-23 squad which has reached the final of this season’s Premier League International Cup final for players who can make the step up to Football League level but there will have to be some significant trading too

Having managed Preston North End and Manchester United, Moyes is used to scouring for bargains but has also had the occasional big splash, breaking Sunderland’s transfer record to sign Didier Ndong in August.

There have been some big purchases in the Championship in recent seasons, and Moyes may be hoping the big parachute payments clubs receive when dropping out of the Premier League allows him to do the same. But the reality is he is likely to have to do plenty of scrimping and saving. His regular talk of “Britishness” suggests he will look chiefly to the domestic market.

So how might he go about his task? GOALKEEPERS Nigel Martyn (Leeds to Everton, £680,000), Tim Howard (Man Utd to Everton, £3m)

Making £3.5m Richard Wright his first Everton transfer may not have been Moyes’ greatest bit of business but the shrewd signings of Martyn and Howard left the Toffees well served between the sticks. Having inherited David De Gea at Manchester United and Jordan Pickford at Sunderland, he has not had to buy a first-choice goalkeeper since, although he did loan Geronimo Rulli from Manchester City while in Spain. FULL-BACKS . Graham Alexander (Luton to Preston, £50,000), Leighton Baines (Wigan to Everton, £6m), Seamus Coleman (Sligo Rovers to Everton, £60,000), Bryan Oviedo (Copenhagen to Everton, £3.8m),

This could be the area of the squad that needs least attention. Moyes showed at Goodison Park he has an eye for an attacking full-back but with the players he already has solid and sturdy enough to play Championship football but not so good that the Premier League vultures will be desperately looking to pick them off, he may be able to stick with what he has. Given the amount of work needed elsewhere, that would be a big relief. CENTRE-BACKS

Joseph Yobo (Marseille to Everton, £3.5m), Phil Jagielka (Sheff Utd to Everton, £4m), Joleon Lescott (Wolves to Everton, £5m), Sylvain Distin (Portsmouth to Everton, £5m), John Stones (Barnsley to Everton, £3m)

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