Reinildo Mandava becomes Sunderland’s latest signing ahead of Premier League return

The latest North East sport headlines, from Daniel Wales.

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00:00Ronaldo Mandava has become Sunderland's third permanent signing of the summer transfer window

00:06so far as he has arrived from Atletico Madrid on a free transfer.

00:14For me it's a dream, it's a dream come true because it's my dream to play in the Premier

00:23League. It's a dream to play in the biggest team in England, so it's a pleasure for me

00:33to be here today. I'm very happy, so it's like I said before, it's a dream come true

00:41because when I was a kid, always we live football in my country, we live football in my home

00:50also because my father was a player, my grandfather was a player, so even my brothers and my sister

00:58they're playing football, so we're born in this world of football. In the beginning, when

01:08I was a kid, I started looking at the Premier League and I said, one day I will give everything.

01:15And Middlesbrough's new coach, A.D. Vavish, has made clear that whilst Rob Edwards is the

01:19head coach, the Premier League is the ultimate goal for the club, despite Edwards not specifying

01:26this.

01:27Well, it's always a club I've admired, I've always admired the owner. I think, you know,

01:32he's one of those people that you look at and think, it'd be lovely to meet him and now

01:36I've met him, you know, he was actually exactly how I thought he would be. Obviously he has

01:41a ruthless streak, like everybody does who's that successful, but really honest man loves

01:46this club. And I think, you know, the qualities of the club, it's a massive club. And I suppose

01:53the challenge, you know, the challenge of trying to be part of a staff and players that could

01:58get Middlesbrough back to the Premier League, that's the ultimate goal. And so I'm quite

02:02excited by that. I think I could see the potential, the quality of the playing squad. With Rob,

02:09you know, he's just a really, really good human being, as good as I've ever met, I think.