Sunderland man Nectar Triantis has been spending time with a current Newcastle United player and former teammate during the off-season.
The defender, 21, signed for Sunderland from Central Coast Mariners last summer but struggled to break into the Black Cats’ starting XI during the first half of the season and was sent on loan to Scottish Premiership side Hibs during the January window.
Sunderland are a club that have adopted a policy of signing young, talented players in recent years.
One such player to arrive at the Stadium of Light in recent history is Jewison Bennette, signed from Costa Rican side Herediano in 2022.
In his 15 Championship outings in his debut season, it was clear Bennette was raw and had plenty of development to undergo before being ready for the first team, perhaps not making it too surprising that he featured just once for the club in the first half of the 2023/24 campaign.
Bennette’s loan nightmare
As a result of his lack of action at the Stadium of Light, Bennette decided it was time to head out on loan in January for more regular minutes, joining up with Greek side Aris Saloniki.
Disastrously, Bennette would go on to make just two appearances for the Greek Super League side, reflecting on that loan spell in an interview with Costa Rican media.
Bennette told Tetetica, via ChronicleLive: “It was quite a complicated year.”
“I made bad decisions, going to a club that broke my contract in every way. My agent recommended that I go there. He told me not to talk to anyone, it was a bad decision I made, but I’m learning.
“When I came to Aris I played two games and after that they had to pay my salary, house and car.
“I complained to Sunderland and they [Aris] were upset about that, then they started to put me aside and left me off the list. In the end I had a small injury that left me out of La Sele’s [Costa Rica’s national team] games.”
