ANALYSIS: Did Sunderland get Deadline Day right? Inside a remarkable Deadline Day at SAFC.

Gone are the days of the yellow ties and fans camped outside training grounds with reporters, but transfer deadline day is still no less exciting.

For much of the summer, there had been a growing sense among supporters that Sunderland still had considerable work to do if they were to build a squad capable of competing on a number of fronts, with Premier League football accompanied by the additional demands of Europa League football, yet by the time deadline day arrived the club had only brought in two defenders – Thomas Meunier and Dayann Methalie, leaving questions about whether Sunderland’s recruitment strategy had been too cautious and whether important areas of Régis Le Bris’s squad were being left dangerously short of options.