JumpingAnaconda
Winger
Giaccherini is a decent player that we never used properly. Di Canio didn't ask for him but after his previous insistence for British players was continually ignored, eventually agreed to the purchase. In all his time at the club he was never played regularly in a position to maximise his ability.
Borini (who incidentally does have one full Italian cap) is a great player in his own mind and a very average one in reality. Even he, however, has far more to offer than we've seen at Sunderland recently. He seems a very petulant man by nature and like many others he seemed to effectively down tools last season.
Like Defoe, Borini scored some cracking goals for us from limited numbers of half chances, particularly in his first loan stint, and with a very good conversion rate. The reality is that he has got injured and the side has got a lot worse. Playmakers like Ki and Johnson have not been replaced, and players like Borini, Watmore, Khazri, and M'Villa were asked to be both playmakers, strikers and cover in defence. We have really made it hard for players to shine for us. It is probably not a coincidence that so many players leave us and go on to do much better with other clubs where they are not expected to pull rabbits out of hats week after week.