The Sunderland AFC World Cup of Loanees: Vote for the club's best ever temporary signing in our knockout competition

From Yann M’Vila to Fabio Borini and Mart Poom to Shay Given, the Black Cats have certainly secured some brilliant loan signings in recent years.

And now we’ve launched a quest to find out who supporters believe to be THE best loanee of all time - through a knockout competition.

We’ve shortlisted 16 loanees based on fan suggestions from social media, and day-by-day we’ll be eliminating players until we’re left with just one - the best loan signing that Sunderland have ever made.

We’ll begin with four randomly-drawn groups of four, where the top two players will progress to the quarter finals.

From there on it’s a straight knockout competition, with your votes determining who progresses to the final and who is then crowned the winner.

We’ll be posting daily votes on our Twitter page, @sunechosafc, so head there to have your say on Sunderland’s best ever loan signing.

Here’s the shortlisted players - and groups they all find themselves in:

GROUP A

John Mensah

Danny Simpson

Marcos Alonso

Ki Sung-yeung

GROUP B

Yann M’Vila

Stewart Downing

Marton Fulop

Nedum Onuoha

GROUP C

Danny Welbeck

Shay Given

Djibril Cisse

Jonny Evans

GROUP D

Danny Rose

DeAndre Yedlin

Fabio Borini

Mart Poom

We’ll be posting one poll per day until we have a winner.

To vote on the polls each day, CLICK HERE.