da premier bet： Martin O’Neill is desperate to sign his skipper to a new long-term deal.
da betsson： Lee Cattermole is out of contract in the summer and O’Neill wants a contract penned before the uncertainty of the January transfer window.
Speaking to the Sunderland Echo the Ulsterman said, “Cattermole has been excellent since I came to the football club and he may well have been before, I don’t know about that.
“He’s 24 and he’s the captain of the side. Sometimes he needs to keep his discipline better because over the course of the year I expect he’ll pick up a couple silly bookings. I don’t want to build him up too much though – particularly as he has a contract to sign here.”
The former England under 21 international has become synonymous with ill-discipline since his arrival on Wearside; Cattermole has seen red four times in a Sunderland shirt. For all his faults, the ex Middlesbrough man has become a lynch-pin of O’Neill’s team. Operating in a more disciplined role under the 60 year old, he is a major factors as to why the Black Cats have become one of the most difficult teams to beat in the Premier League.