Defeat to a club that didn't even exist 20 years ago will top things off nicely. Honestly, whoever they end up appointing I cannot see anything other thana defeat on Sat
If it a choice between McCann and Neil it has to be Neil. Plays a brand of football we will enjoy, has managed at levels above McCann. He is a coach held in very high regard, even as a player he was coaching. Not saying he is top of my list, but he wouldnt have my pulling my hair out. That said I am still pining for Johnson and with each day that passes I become more convinced he should not have been sacked.
It's all very, very underwhelming. If they DO appoint an out of work coach 11 days after we sacked Johnson (and have subsequently lost 2 games) then that will be an absolute joke
Betting's opened again. https://www.oddschecker.com/football/football-specials/sunderland/next-permanent-manager Roy Keane 33/1
If last Friday, or the day after Johnson was sacked, Keane had said “no I don’t want to manage in League One”… I reckon without all the furore thats happened since, people would have been pleased with Alex Neil. Keane’s winks. The journalists saying it was more or less done. The forums deciding it was more or less done. The club have ****ed this up, definitely. But people have also been mis-led and got carried away before anything has been signed. When we all knew we were talking about a volatile guy who walked out on a World Cup ffs. Don’t get me started on KLD liking stuff on instagram though. That has to stop.
Johnson seemed like an exciting choice to me when he was appointed. He was right for the project. Neil and McCann don't seem as exciting although they would both probably fit in well. That tweet earlier suggested there was a third option. I'm hoping it's the third option and he's someone along the lines of Manning or Kisnorbo.
Alex Neil was my pick from the start. Obviously I jumped on the Keane bandwagon but he was always a risk. Is it possible that Keane has messed us about?
Yeh I’m not saying it was. Just that the situation that has happened, no matter whose fault it is, is what is making Alex Neil seem like more of a meh candidate than he would have been if Keane had never been an option. Chris WIlder would have been an even better appointment but there was never any hint of him. It was the hope of Keane that led to the underwhelming factor now.
If it's the club that caused breakdown there will be hell on. Surely it can only be down to length of contract? Or backroom staff?
Yeh he’d have been great. Or the Manning guy at MK Dons. Convincing two managers having breakthrough seasons to sacrifice that halfway through the season though was just never going to happen. They’d be idiots to come here now. Not in the summer though.
