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Adnan Januzaj determined to be a Sunderland success after being overlooked by Jose Mourinho

Adnan Januzaj is determined to prove his critics wrong as he attempts to revive his career at Sunderland after discovering he was not in Jose Mourinho's short-term plans.

The 21-year-old Belgium international was allowed to leave Manchester United for the Stadium of Light on a season-long loan deal during the summer with some questioning his apparent lack of progress since he burst on to the Premier League scene as a precocious teenager.

Januzaj told the Sunderland Echo: 'It is not to re-establish myself, it is just to prove to some of the people that they were wrong.