Sunderland, Newcastle and Stoke target ponders future

Larsson has been linked with the likes of Sunderland, Newcastle United, Blackburn Rovers and Stoke City after leaving Birmingham when his contract expired at the end of the season.

“Seb has a few offers from some good clubs that we are looking into at the moment,” Larsson’s agent Per Jonsson told the Sunderland Echo. “He will need a few weeks to consider his future.

“We have the international games coming up. Sweden have got two qualifiers for the European Championships so Seb and the other players have to have their concentration on them.

“But after those games, we will be sorting out his future pretty quickly. By the first or second week in June, everything should be sorted out.

“There have been four clubs from the Premier League who have made approaches. There is no problem finding a club in this case. The problem is sorting out which club it is.

“Obviously Seb has got a good relationship with Steve Bruce and Eric Black (Sunderland assistant manager).

“Steve was the manager at Birmingham before and took him to Birmingham and he made his breakthrough under him there. You can see they have a good relationship from that.”