Sunderland goalkeeper Melker Ellborg has been speaking about his transfer to the North East earlier this year.

Sunderland goalkeeper Melker Ellborg has opened up on his initial reaction to learning of the Black Cats’ interest in signing, admitting that he was delighted to have such a “big club” tracking his progress.

The Swedish international signed for Regis Le Bris’ side from Malmo back in January, and has since gone on to make five senior appearances on Wearside, generally acting as an understudy to de facto number one Robin Roefs.

And during a fresh interview back in his home country, Ellborg has delivered an insight into his thought process prior to completing his permanent switch to the Stadium of Light earlier this year. Speaking to Fotbollskanalen‘s podcast, Lundh, he said: “I had to open ‘Maps’ [app], where it was located somewhere in England.”

“But I’d been following their Premier League autumn campaign and seen that they’d made a huge impression. I had seen that it was a very functional team with a lot of momentum behind it and so on. My first reaction was ‘Brilliant: here comes a big club that’s riding high.’”

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Ellborg also confessed that he had watched some of Sunderland’s well-renowned Netflix documentary, ‘Sunderland ‘Til I Die’, prior to arriving in England, but is yet to finish the whole thing. He added: “I watched a few episodes on the way here for the first time. But it was quite a tough environment then, so I felt it didn’t give me much encouragement to watch the series. So, I haven’t actually finished it yet. I should do it now that I know how much love [is around the club].”

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