As per Turkish side Besiktas' official site, Jeremain Lens has appeared to have made his loan deal permanent from Sunderland.

Sunderland fans will not exactly have much good to say about Lens given the way he left the club in the lurch and, more often than not, declined to use his talent to help them when he was at the club.

He's been out on loan for some time, then, and it looks as though he is finally off of the wage bill for good with him set to stay with the Turkish side on a permanent basis.

Given the fact that he hasn't played for the Black Cats for a long time, too, he's hardly going to be missed on the pitch and now, all that really matters, is whether the club can manage to reinvest the saving they've made from him.

That, though, is surely up in the air too.

The Verdict

Lens was never going to stay at Sunderland and so it's good that things have finally been sorted.

The Black Cats can now aim to focus in on getting themselves safe this season and then, in the summer, they can look to sign players that care more about the club than the winger did.

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