Big Dick Uturn

They certainly kept those cards close to their chest!!

Don't think I'll be playing poker with Congers anytime soon!!

That Congers starting to grow on me, and not in a cyst sort of way!!!

 

You'll be interested to see if a manager of a champions league club will come be our assistant... Don't hold your breath mate.

 

It started with a cyst.
Never thought it would come to this.

 

Over the moon he is back. He knows what the club needs to do to get out this relegation bull ****.

 

Mmmm - might be getting a bit carried away

Zenden?

 

The glorious thing is we've gone from hiring late and being behind in preparation to bringing in someone who knows the team, knows what it needs and has already been working with Congerton on players. We're suddenly back on schedule in preparations.

 

Well I'm one happy bunny at the moment. It is great to get the uncertainty out of the way, and hopefully we will all unite behind him and give him every chance in the world to succeed.

 

This, uncertainty out the way, we can now look to build our targets. Unsure if they will come with it being just 1 year

 

Beauty is Dick has been working on our targets with Congerton since safety was achieved. Our preparations are right on track.

 

"He is currently Darije Kalezic's assistant at Jong PSV in the Eerste Divisie."

Assistant reserve's team coach at PSV. That I can maybe see. Depends if Dick fancies him I guess.

 

And I don't need to change my username

 

Same here. Don't need to change my Sig either.

 

@YoungSunEcho Zeljko Petrovic to return as Dick Advocaat's assistant. More a coach than a successor in waiting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Željko_Petrović

Waiting to see if Bert Van Lingen joins coaching staff

 

Big Dick rises again!

Don't think I've ever been this happy about a manager signing for us, it's genuinely made my day, next season can't come soon enough now.

 

Advocaat: The owner of the club, Ellis Short, continued to haunt me with a request to stay anyway.

 

Did anyone have any daft money on this? It all broke pretty suddenly so I'm sure there must have been people who got daft odds at about 100's.

The bookies had no idea, as did the papers, as did we.

What a great day to be a Sunderland fan.

 

This is great news, wonder who the next signing will be. Hopefully, the start of something great

 

Aye, Ellis Short & Dick Advocaat probably! It was around 300-1 soon after Advocaat 'retired.'

 

I never thought to, was too happy I was on twitter as Dan King broke the story and have had sky bet open in a tab the whole time this has gone on. I was in perfect position to nick in.

 

Aye or Mrs Advocaat only wanted a fat retirement sum. Imagine the conversation:

"Tell them you don't want it. Wait till the odds are daft, then stick that £500k bonus Ellis gave you at the end of the season on, then tell him you'll go back".

Job's a good'n.