Agreed. We need a man who can get the best or our current level, then evolve the squad to his philosophy which is hopefully a slick modern passing game. I pray Poyet can do this.
Nowt against the bloke and as I said earlier the best of what we can get but, what did he achieve at Brighton no promotion no cups no nowt. If he keeps us up and that is the main aim now like it or not then fine yet another rebuild next year but, all this he plays attractive attacking football blah blah ****ing blah is great if you have an attractive attacking team. We do not have that we have a team who will play for 45 minutes then bin it, he has his work cut out with us so good luck he is going to need it.
I maybe a Newcastle supporter but I now live in Brighton and through my work connections with Brighton and Hove Albion FC I have seen quite a few of Brighton games under Poyet. I think he will be a good appointment for you. Under him, Brighton not only played attractive football but also were well organised. Yes there are question marks over his lack of Premiership experience but it's not a necessity for success. Look at the Southampton manager for instance. When there were rumours of Pardew going it was Poyet that I would have wished for if he had of gone. The problem he may have is previous mangers have bought in so many new players that the board maybe reluctant to sanction that again. He may have to work with the players he's got and only make the old 1 or 2 changes. Saying that though that's exactly what he did at Brighton successfully.
I agree prem experience is not as much of an issue these days like. As for the new players. We've got 8 players out of contract this summer on an old inflated wage policy, very few of them are likely to win a new contract at the moment apart from Colback who's refusing to sign one. They'll need replacing so I think they'll be plenty of transfer activity and a lot of free wages to play with regardless of what league we're in.
I think this is the major problem. Stay up and they still wont be offered a contract imo. Go down they are released and move on without a transfer fee allowing themselves to negotiate a better deal. Big big cock up by our club allowing this to happen.
@TelegraphSport Gus Poyet has been appointed as manager of Sunderland and been handed a three-year contract, reports @John__Percy ‪#‎safc‬
I think it was a very dangerous way to deal with contracts but we may have got away with it. We want shot of most of these anyway and the wage budget will shoot up as a result (or help balance the books if we did go down) If it had been a case of us wanting to resign these players then we would have been ****ed as far as summer business goes as new wages and new signing on fees and Agent Fees would have swallowed a big chunk of our recruitment budget. Off the hook but I don't want us to handle contracts like this ever again.
As a few of my Brighton mates have said: he had loads of quality defenders but none of them seemed able to defend. Seagulls fans think he should have done better with the resources at his disposal.
I hate it when the club fanny on like this. Everyone knows it's Poyet. Everyone knows it's for three years (Interesting as PDC only got two) JUST BLOODY ANNOUNCE IT FFS.
Dunno who this fella is but hey ho 2 hours ago @SamWallaceIndy Gus Poyet has got the Sunderland head coach job, travelling up to the North-east now. Press conference to introduce him at the club tomorrow Edit : is that you indy?
