Think you're seriously over-rating that team to be honest. A good keeper and strike force apart, that's average to me. Average full-backs, over-rated big money centre-back, can't say I've seen much of Mensah, Richardson's done nowt apart from send us down, Malbranque's been poor the last year, and I don't think there's room for both Cana & Cattermole, one or the other imo, probably Cana. No creativity at all.
I've thought this as well, don't get the sudden optimism for Sunderland.
They're slightly better than the team that survived by the skin of their teeth.