Source: Daily_Mail
Steve Bruce weighs up January transfers to ease Sunderland's defensive crisis
Enlarge Big loss: Injured Sunderland defender Bramble (left)[LNB]Sunderland manager Steve Bruce has admitted he could be forced to buy new players in January to cope with the absence of Titus Bramble and Michael Turner. [LNB]The central defenders are sidelined until the New Year with serious knee injuries and the Black Cats struggled without the pair in Saturday's 3-2 defeat at Wolves.[LNB] 'We'll have to see because the two lads have done remarkably well and we'll have to see what they're like when the transfer window resumes again,' Bruce told The Journal. [LNB]'We'll just have to manage without them. 'It is not a coincidence welose with goals like that and they're missing. That was the reason whywe were hindered last year and why in the summer we did something aboutit. [LNB]'We brought in a new goalkeeper (Simon Mignolet),(Nedum) Onuoha, Bramble, and all of a sudden we were a different kettleof fish. [LNB]'We have to defend better. That is the reasonbehind our success (this season) and why we have been where we are. Wehave been rock solid but (on Saturday) we have given individual errorsaway. [LNB]'It was a tough winter last year and we're going tobe reminded of it but I'm confident we can bounce back and defendbetter than we did at Wolves.' [LNB] Wolves 3 Sunderland 2: Henderson struggling to cope, admits boss BruceWatch all the Premier League goals every week on our brilliant Yahoo video playerFA Cup third round draw: Manchester United host Liverpool in pick of gamesSunderland's forgotten man Marcos Angeleri a target for Marseille after becoming unsettled at Stadium of LightSUNDERLAND FC
