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title: "Sam looks to bring one of his former players to Sunderland"
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type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Ste Hoare"
section: "Sunderland News"
published: "2016-04-13T16:33:16Z"
modified: "2016-04-13T16:33:16Z"
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# Sam looks to bring one of his former players to Sunderland

Former West Ham United boss Sam Allardyce is considering a move for one of his former players this summer, according Kieran Gill of [The Mail](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3538074/Sunderland-interested-West-Ham-s-Joey-O-Brien-Sam-Allardyce-looks-reunite-defender-time.html).

Gill suggests that Allardyce is planning to take defender Joey O’Brien to the North East at the end of the season.

The right-back is out of contract in the summer and it looks like he’ll be allowed to leave the club before they begin their first season in the Olympic Stadium.

![Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images Sport](https://cdn.readeverything.co/https://media.readsunderland.com/readsunderland/2016/04/452693810.jpg)

Allardyce knows O’Brien well having managed him at both Bolton Wanderers and West Ham and [Sunderland](https://readsunderland.com/) need a new right-back as their current starter, DeAndre Yedlin, is only on loan from [Tottenham Hotspur](https://readtottenham.com/) and he’s expected to stay with the North London side next season.

O’Brien has found himself well down the pecking order at West Ham and at 30-years-of-age, he’s likely to want to be playing regular first-team football, which is he’s not going to get under Slaven Bilic.