Former Blue Connor Wickham has signed a new four-and-a-half-year deal at Sunderland. The 21-year-old was in the final season of the contract he penned after his move from Town for an initial £8.1 million in the summer of 2011.
Wickham extending his stay on Wearside is good news for the Blues with the deal which took him to the Black Cats including various top-up clauses potentially taking the fee to £12 million plus an undisclosed percentage of the profit if and when he is sold.
If the academy product had moved on without signing the new terms the Blues would have been unlikely to benefit from the sell-on and the other clauses. The striker’s new terms will reportedly see him paid £60,000 a week.