​I’m going to cheat on this one a bit, because what we miss the most isn’t a specific position per se but a match-winner.In two seasons under Régis Le Bris, we’ve never really had a consistent one; a player you trust to come up with the goods when a game’s getting away from us and the type that drags a result out of nothing when no one else can find it.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThere was a stretch where you could argue we leaned on those players too heavily. For years, if you blunted Jack Clarke, Amad Diallo, Aiden McGeady or Jermain Defoe, you stopped us scoring. But on the flip side, however bad it got, you never quite stopped believing one of them would dig us out.We currently have one of the most well-balanced sides in the league, and I don’t want to lose that. But what I’d add to it is a match-changer, a reliable goalscorer that can take a game by the scruff of the neck when the rest of the team is floundering.Whether that turns out to be the left-footed right winger or real competition for Brian Brobbey up top, give us a player that scores the goals that decide games in the moments when everyone else goes missing.I’d like to see the club target a striker, preferably one with a proven goalscoring record.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThat’ll be far from easy to achieve but I do think we could do with bringing in someone that can change matches regularly by converting a high percentage of chances.I love Brian Brobbey and Wilson Isidor — they add so much to the team in very different ways and Régis Le Bris definitely seemed to mange the pair of them very well, especially towards the end of the season. Both of them will chip in with important goals but I’m not sure whether they’re natural goalscorers, as Kevin Phillips was, for example.Perhaps in Brobbey’s case, there’s more time for him to develop his scoring skills, particularly through getting cleaner contact on close-range efforts which he scuffs now and again. Isidor obviously makes excellent runs and I like that he’s willing to take a shot on.Neither of the two looks like being prolific yet, so to bring in a player that’s confident in front of goal and who could contribute twelve to fifteen goals in a season would make a big impact.I think it has to be a striker.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAlthough we had a wonderful season back in the Premier League, I still feel we need a striker who can get 15 goals next term. Brian Brobbey has been great and Wilson Isidor can provide some magic, but we don’t have that poacher in the box that can provide a different threat.I appreciate they don’t come cheaply but with European football, we’ll need at least three established strikers.Sunderland must strengthen their striker options before the new campaign gets underway. With four competitions to balance, relying on just two senior number nines would be a huge gamble.Brian Brobbey and Wilson Isidor are both excellent options but a seaso