Sunderland can be yours for FREE! Owner chairman Ellis Short prepared to give away Championship strugglers (but buyer must take on £137m debt)

Daily Mail | February 22, 2018

Sunderland owner Ellis Short will give the club away for FREE if a buyer is prepared to take on its substantial debt.

The Black Cats were only relegated from the Premier League last season but are now bottom of the Championship and are said to be losing around £500,000 per week.

Short has had enough and he could be willing to forgo the majority of the £69million he is owed of the last reported debt of £137m.

Chris Coleman said Sunderland's problems are down to the owner — Sunderland boss Chris Coleman believes the club's problems are down to owner Ellis Short

Ellis Short is an absent owner attempting to sell Sunderland

Coleman has not spoken to Short since being appointed manager in November last year

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
1	Wolverhampton Wanderers	33	22	7	4	33	73
2	Cardiff City	33	19	7	7	22	64
3	Aston Villa	33	17	9	7	19	60
4	Derby County	33	16	11	6	22	59
5	Fulham	33	15	11	7	18	56
6	Bristol City	33	14	12	7	9	54
7	Sheffield United	32	16	4	12	8	52
8	Middlesbrough	33	15	6	12	12	51
9	Preston North End	33	12	15	6	8	51
10	Brentford	33	13	11	9	10	50
11	Leeds United	33	13	7	13	3	46
12	Norwich City	33	12	10	11	-3	46
13	Millwall	33	11	12	10	4	45
14	Ipswich Town	33	13	6	14	1	45
15	Queens Park Rangers	33	10	9	14	-10	39
16	Sheffield Wednesday	33	8	13	12	-5	37
17	Nottingham Forest	33	11	4	18	-15	37
18	Reading	32	8	9	15	-7	33
19	Bolton Wanderers	33	8	9	16	-22	33
20	Birmingham City	33	8	6	19	-27	30
21	Hull City	32	6	11	15	-7	29
22	Burton Albion	33	7	8	18	-33	29
23	Barnsley	32	6	10	16	-16	28
24	Sunderland	33	5	11	17	-24	26

The American has been trying to sell the club for nearly two years but the only interest has been from an unnamed German consortium who failed to produce proof of funds.