Mensah seals Sunderland move

Mensah has joined Sunderland

Ghanasoccernet can exclusively reveal that Ghana defender John Mensah has completed his move  to English side Sunderland.

Mensah, 26, joins on a season-long loan from the French giants Lyon.

 
Sunderland have an option to make the deal permanent at the end of the loan spell.  

Nicknamed 'the Rock of Gibraltar' in his native Ghana, Mensah has represented his country on almost 60 occasions and is the current vice-captain of the Ghanaian national squad.  

He represented Ghana in the 2006 FIFA World Cup and was named in the All-Star team for the African Nations Cup earlier in the same year.  

Mensah started his career in the Ghanaian capital with MBC Accra before being spotted as a youngster by Italian Serie A side Bologna.

After moves to Chievo Verona and US Cremonese and loan spells with Swiss outfit AC Bellinzona, Genoa and Modena, Mensah signed for French side Stade Rennais in January 2006.  

The defender made more than 60 Ligue 1 appearances for Rennais before attracting the attention of Lyon, who paid 8.4m Euros to acquire his services in July 2008.

  Mensah becomes Steve Bruce's sixth signing of the summer, joining Fraizer Campbell, Paulo Da Silva, Lorik Cana, Darren Bent and Lee Cattermole at the Stadium of Light http://www.safc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/StadiumofLight .