Kyril Louis-Dreyfus pleads for 'level of realism' about Sunderland timeframe Sunderland owner Kyril Louis-Dreyfus is confident Sunderland will get back to the Premier League, but says he needs time to do it. https://www.si.com/soccer/sunderlan...r-level-of-realism-about-sunderland-timeframe As the song goes... "We are on our way..."
He may as well be saying 'Stop talking shyte' to some people ... ... of course it'll take time, Short tried to be quicker and almost killed the club. Then there was Donald 'Today marks the three-year anniversary of him taking control of Sunderland, who were then a club stripped to its bare bones and rotting away in League One. It hasn’t always been plain sailing since, but the Black Cats are in a much stronger position than when the 26-year-old started.'
He can all of the time he likes, I'll stick with him providing he hires people who know what they are doing and listens and learns.
Just goes to show how much the chuckle brothers cut the club to the bone, off the pitch as well as on. It's going to take time to build everything back up to the levels they were
Players back Beale... When asked what has changed since Beale’s appointment, Ballard told the Echo: “I think it’s more the structure as a team. I feel like we are a lot more solid as a team. The recent results have just been frustrating but it’s a process. We love having the manager here and he’s got great football knowledge. We want results, not just for him but for the fans and everyone at the club, so it’s been a frustrating week.”
Not from the Sunderland Echo apparently. They are predicting we are going to finish this season in 10th place. Wonder how our fanbase take to this prediction/publication? https://www.sunderlandecho.com/spor...eds-others-will-finish-gallery-4523008?page=4
I'm hoping for a good summer even though we'll probably lose one of the gems for good money, and tangible improvements to the off field issues supporters have encountered, else doubt will creep in.
When they came in they said they had a 5 year plan to be in the PL though so not really talking ****e just maybe holding them to their word. It’s still achievable. Have to start signing players who improve the team now not more players who might be good in 3 years time. Big summer hopefully coming up and an it’ll be an exciting one imo.
Good article mate, cheers. I don’t know if people being throwing abusive comments and vitriol think they are somehow being constructive. It’s definitely not and it’s harmful to the club.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe calling for patience as well. He says Manchester United must "walk to the right solution not run to the wrong one" after he bought a 27.7% stake in the club. The 71-year-old billionaire told BBC Sport "something is wrong with the environment" at United, who won the most recent of their 20 English titles in 2013. And he called for patience from supporters as he aims to restore his childhood club to its former glory.
Sunderland’s managerial churn will continue until their owner sees the light Louise Taylor Decent coaches could be forgiven for steering clear of the Stadium of Light, where the club are seeking a 22nd manager in 22 years When the lights went out, quite literally, on Michael Beale in late January it seemed a metaphor for his impending divorce from Sunderland. Beale was only minutes into a press conference at the Academy of Light, the Championship club’s training base, when a power cut plunged the complex into darkness. As the manager began talking after guiding reporters to a daylight-flooded atrium, the sense grew that it could well be a matter of time before the board pulled the plug on Tony Mowbray’s successor. Sure enough, on Monday, Kyril Louis-Dreyfus, Sunderland’s 27-year-old majority owner, sacked Beale two months, 12 games and four wins into his two-and-a-half-year contract. Mike Dodds will be in caretaker charge for the remainder of the season, starting with Saturday’s home game against Swansea, where he will aim to start closing the seven-point gap separating 10th-placed Sunderland from the playoff places. The 37-year-old coach is much admired at the Stadium of Light, where he has forged close bonds with first-team players, most notably the key attacking midfielder Jobe Bellingham. During a previous stint as caretaker manager after Mowbray’s dismissal he presided over wins against West Brom and Leeds, surprising the latter by switching to a back three. With hindsight, perhaps Louis-Dreyfus would have been better sticking with Dodds in December. Instead Beale was hired and swiftly floundered, a particular nadir reached in a home defeat by Hull on the weekend preceding that press conference punctuated by the power cut. The Londoner was clearly feeling the strain involved in replacing the much loved, and judged by most reasonable metrics, rather successful, Mowbray and allowed his emotions to show. “People didn’t want me here in the first place,” said the former Rangers and QPR manager, who made his name as Steven Gerrard’s assistant at Rangers and Aston Villa. “You can say it’s about style or this and that, but, let’s cut to the chase, people didn’t want me.” Beale compounded his problems by declaring himself “bemused” by supporter criticism he had evidently taken so personally. He rightly pointed out that Sunderland have the youngest team in the division, one of the second tier’s lowest budgets and were ahead of schedule in reaching the playoffs last spring, only a year after escaping League One. The only problem was that Mowbray performed better than he did with similar resources, not to mention presiding over a more attractive playing style. Accordingly, when Sunderland lost 2-1 at Mowbray’s new club, Birmingham, last Saturday, Beale’s position became untenable. Rather than travel back to Wearside on Saturday night, the outgoing manager boarded a flight to Glasgow en route to his family home before a scheduled day off. By then many observers suspected Beale would soon be spending a lot more time in Scotland. Such suspicions were duly confirmed on Monday morning. Dodds swiftly became caretaker and Will Still, the 31-year-old Anglo-Belgian coach managing Reims in Ligue 1, promptly announced he was keen to “come home” to England and stressed that an ambitious Championship club would suit him just fine. Louis-Dreyfus and his idealistic director of football, Kristjaan Speakman, should count themselves fortunate that Sunderland remain an attractive proposition to a bright young manager. After all, decent coaches could be forgiven for steering clear of a club seeking its 22nd manager in 22 years – and fifth in the three years since the French-Swiss owner became chairman. Yet with an impressive, Premier League-standard infrastructure featuring the 49,000-capacity Stadium of Light and well-appointed Academy of Light, not to mention this season’s near-41,000 median Championship home attendance, Sunderland still possess considerable pulling power. In theory they should be fighting off applications from high-calibre managers with points to prove in the Graham Potter mould but the reality is different. Although it is entirely sensible that the billionaire Louis-Dreyfus wants to run Sunderland as a sustainable business, his blueprint for success is flawed. Like legions of other clubs Sunderland aim to identify exciting young international talent and coach those players so well that they bring the team glory before being sold for huge profits. Unlike other adherents to this model, though, they seem to fail to accept that a certain amount of experience is necessary to provide on-field leadership and consistency. Beale, like Mowbray, departed not long after he publicly queried Speakman’s failure to provide him with a proven centre-forward. At present the Chelsea loanee Mason Burstow and Ukrainian striker Nazariy Rusyn are not capable of polishing off some fine approach work from, among others, Bellingham and the talented winger Jack Clarke. Moreover, the team, and Beale, were further undermined by Alex Pritchard’s refusal to continue playing for Sunderland before joining Birmingham last month. The 30-year-old attacking midfielder was their most experienced player. Louis-Dreyfus remains desperate to oversee promotion but, unless Dodds works miracles, doing so will necessitate a certain amount of speculating to accumulate. In the absence of such investment Sunderland’s managerial churn seems destined to continue at its current, absurd rate. Sunderland’s managerial churn will continue until their owner sees the light | Sunderland | The Guardian
Louise Taylor is usually a decent read but all these words don't add up to much ... ... hardly breaking news and nothing we don't already know.
