S.A.F.C. - the future

[Teessidemackem]

I must admit to bed wetting as some have put it. I just can’t help but think now was the time to get a manager that would get the fans together. There can be no doubt this has split the fan base right down the middle which gets off to a very bad start. I like the structure but just can’t work out why they didn’t go for a all in one announcement including Dreyfus to show a whole new Sunderland.
It feels more like same old Sunderland same old Donald.

Weve had big name managers before like ONeill and Coleman for example and where did that get us??
We need to realise we're a league 1 club, so getting a manager in who was the Championships longest serving manager before coming to us should be regarded as a good bit of buisness.
We're not exactly a good proposition for any manager are we. Anyone that comes to us will be putting their reputation on the line when you look at our track record.

 

[MadMackem]

Interesting that he makes clear he will not be in charge of player recruitment, clearly more posts to be filled

 

[resinlegs]

Good interview that from Speakman. And an article from Mark Donnelly talks about appointing head of recruitment and making Sunderland a hub of excellence. Really feels like the new owners have thought about this in great detail and have a plan. Also suggests they’ve sold it well enough so that the likes of Speakman and Johnson come on board. Very exciting. No takeover though...

 

[Blyth_bucaneer]

Surely this takeover is getting announced this weekend. Are we waiting for the manager to get in the door before it happens do we think?

Fcuking hope so, just had a rummage through wor lasses knicker draw.

 

[rooch 3]

may I suggest you suck my plums

Grapes might be more apt until they drop anyway.

 

[Comfy]

It’s now obvious that it’s not the two chancers that are running the show now, can we just get down to supporting this new regime and get this team out of this **** league because then and only then will we get rid of the two piss taking southern twats

 

[Southern A]

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words are cheap, and he says so himself. but this might be the best first interview I've ever seen.

Thoughtful, confident and intelligent.

 

[Whittylad]

Whatever happens we're now in a position to be able to pay people off if they're not performing ...

... I'm sitting on a hillside in my old Transit, having a few cans of 86 and watching the sunset over the Pyrenees with Mrs Smug.

She says hello

Good evening Mrs Smug. Hope he’s behaving himself.

 

[Bank of England 2]

SAFC announcement says he will be sporting director and in charge of player identification, development and acquisitions

That to me is disappointing then. There's no doubting his qualifications in the player development side, but there are many from Brum questioning his transfer dealings. Their first team haven't pulled many trees up. Had hoped for a separate DOF.

 

[TopCat.]

The bedwetting on RTG is phenomenal

It's a joke - some of then are desperate for this to fail, desperate for the takeover not to happen just so they can say "I WAS RIGHT"

 

[JHmackem]

Speakman is absolutely gushing about the new owners in that interview. It's so blatantly obvious as well. Takeover announcement will come soon I think.

 

[Guy Incognito]

Name a manager apart from Sir Alex it hasn’t ended badly for?

Bob Paisley

 

[Billy Batts]

Surely this takeover is getting announced this weekend. Are we waiting for the manager to get in the door before it happens do we think?

Let's hope so. As others have said, if it'd come the other way round, the takeover then director/head coach, there wouldn't be as much discontent amongst some.

 

[wearside wanderer II]

Good interview that from Speakman. And an article from Mark Donnelly talks about appointing head of recruitment and making Sunderland a hub of excellence. Really feels like the new owners have thought about this in great detail and have a plan. Also suggests they’ve sold it well enough so that the likes of Speakman and Johnson come on board. Very exciting. No takeover though...

Johnson is unemployed, hardly a tough ask to say hey do you fancy 2/3/4/5/600k a year and get a pay off when you do your usual trick of missing out on play offs

 

[resinlegs]

words are cheap, and he says so himself. but this might be the best first interview I've ever seen.

Thoughtful, confident and intelligent.

You obviously didn’t see David Moyes threaten to slap a woman.

 

[wearside wanderer II]

Grapes might be more apt until they drop anyway.

now now we can’t all be happy clappers when a perennial failure is appointed.

 

[Julio]

People still saying there is no takeover. ****ing hell haha

 

[Ferryhill Exile]

words are cheap, and he says so himself. but this might be the best first interview I've ever seen.

Thoughtful, confident and intelligent.

Sounds just like the guff Donald and Methven spewed when they came in.

 

[Southern A]

now now we can’t all be happy clappers when a perennial failure is appointed.

You can be disappointed and underwhelmed and express reservations without coming across like a kid.

"Perennial failure" ffs.

 

[Prehab26]

I am sorry like. With all this happening today, there is literally no way you can be negative.

Safc have been crying out for an actual plan and structure change for years. It's literally happening now.

Have to be positive.