Italy international Emanuele Giaccherini believes he can make a big impact at Sunderland under Dick Advocaat next season and says he has no intention of leaving the club.

The midfielder joined the Black Cats from Juventus in 2013 but has struggled to make an impact on the first team due to a run of injuries.

He managed just a dozen Premier League appearances last season but the 30-year-old’s agent insists he can be a key player for Advocaat next season.

“Sunderland have kept Advocaat as manager. He’s a very good one, a guru of football, and with him Giaccherini can be a genius,” Furio Valcareggi told reporters.

Valcareggi confirmed that the player “will 100-per-cent remain at Sunderland” for next season and he says he has ambitions of making it into the Italy squad for next summer’s Euro 2016 Finals in France.

Giaccherini has 21 full international caps to his name already and despite featuring just once for Sunderland in the closing months of the season due to injury, Azzurri boss Antonio Conte called him into a training camp before last week’s game against Croatia.

Valcareggi said the player was delighted to get the call and he is now focusing on fighting his way back to form for club and country.

“Emanuele was very pleased to return to the Azzurri,” Valcareggi said.

“He was also calm when Conte decided not to put him in the squad after the training camp, because he had only played for 20 minutes in the last six months.”

Sunderland begin the new season under Advocaat with a trip to Leicester City, a game the Black Cats are 3.50 to win.