Sunderland handed huge Enzo Le Fee update as £19m Roma star makes U-turn on Wearside move

Sunderland’s latest transfer target is Enzo Le Fee. The midfielder left Rennes for Roma in a £19million move just a few months ago, but now, he could be about to make a shock move to Wearside and aid Sunderland’s promotion push.

Regis Le Bris and Enzo Le Fee worked together at Lorient in Ligue 1. Le Fee left for Rennes in 2023 and then left Rennes for Roma in 2024, though the French midfielder has managed just six Serie A appearances since.

Meanwhile at Sunderland, Le Bris has shone. Sunderland beat Portsmouth 1-0 in their last outing and Sheffield United 2-1 in the game before that, leaving just three points between themselves in 4th and Leeds United in 1st place of the Championship table.

Le Fee has emerged as a target for Sunderland for this January transfer window. It’s seemed like an unlikely target so far, but Le Fee pulled out of a move to Real Betis to give Sunderland a glimmer of hope of getting the deal done.

Now, it looks like Sunderland have more than a glimmer of hope of signing Le Fee on loan from Claudio Ranieri’s Roma.