http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...ecure-Sunderlands-stay-in-Premier-League.html Gus Poyet will be assured of transfer funds in January to boost Sunderlandâs hopes of Premier League survival after being named as the new head coach on Monday. Poyet has agreed a three-year contract to succeed Paolo Di Canio and ends Sunderlandâs two-week search for an appointment, with the Uruguayan charged with the task of helping the North East club avoid relegation to the Championship. Sunderland owner Ellis Short has admitted top-flight safety is an âabsolute necessityâ and has promised Poyet assistance to make signings in the new year, though the budget will be more limited than the estimated £30 million spent by Di Canio this summer. Short has made it clear to the 45-year-old that survival is the only remit for the season, with Sunderland bottom and without a league win since April 20. No club have ever avoided relegation with only one point from their opening seven games, Sunderlandâs present position. It is Poyetâs first managerial assignment in the top flight, after establishing his reputation with Brighton, but he is keen to introduce a more progressive style of passing football and will work closely alongside director of football Roberto De Fanti. Sunderland made their move on Sunday, hours after the 2-1 home defeat to Manchester United, and held further talks with Poyet before finally putting the finishing touches to the deal on Monday night. Poyet was one of the first contenders to hold talks with the Sunderland board after the dismissal of Di Canio and was under serious consideration for the post in March before losing out to the Italian as the club were reluctant to pay the £2.5 million compensation required by Brighton. He has also been on the radar of Fulham in recent months after Martin Jolâs struggles and could have been in contention for that post if the west Londoners had failed to beat Stoke on Saturday. Poyet was controversially dismissed by Brighton in July after an acrimonious row following the clubâs play-off semi-final defeat to Crystal Palace and shortly after his exit was confirmed he told The Telegraph: âI am free and available and I want to be back in work as soon as possible. âIâve worked with Juande Ramos and Dennis Wise, worked for almost four years with Brighton, and feel Iâm ready to manage in the Premier League. âIâm going to go away and make sure I am ready for the challenge when it comes along. There are matters to be sorted out, for sure, but Iâm very keen to get back into management when the right opportunity comes along.â Poyetâs assistant from Brighton, Mauricio Taricco, will also be joining him on Wearside while Kevin Ball, who has been in caretaker charge for the last three games, is set to return to his former job with the academy. Poyet travelled up to Sunderland on Monday night and his first game in charge will be the trip to Swansea on Oct 19. His appointment will undoubtedly be seen as another gamble due to his lack of experience in the top tier. Di Canio lasted only 13 league games before his dismissal a fortnight ago and Short had used his programme notes for the visit of United to spell out the short-term ambition for this season. âHere at the club, like every supporter, we would like to see long-term success on the pitch and stability at the club,â he wrote. âUnfortunately sometimes the quest for stability can be interrupted by the absolute necessity of staying in the league. This is because the long-term aim becomes irrelevant if we arenât at the top level.â Poyet was the sixth longest serving manager in English football at the time of his sacking with Brighton, winning 86 of his 194 matches. He had guided Brighton to the League One title in his second season before finishing 10th and fourth in the Championship. After making his name in this country as a cultured midfielder with Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, Poyet first worked as a coach under Wise at both Swindon Town and Leeds United. In 2007 he was recruited to Ramosâs back-room staff at White Hart Lane but he lasted barely a year before he landed his first managerial post at Brighton in 2009. Least Ellis has gave some backing then! but: A. Who would want to come here with the current relegation fight? B. What kind of players does he want? C. What happens to all the players out of contract at the end of the season?
though the budget will be more limited than the estimated £30 million spent by Di Canio this summer. See, when I read this kind of stuff that we have spent £30m I cant be arsed to read any more from another lazy journalist who hasn't or cant be bothered to do his homework. Our net spend was less than the majority of EPL clubs and tbh, even some Championship clubs spent more. Ellis still has a few bob to spend and I'd suggest how much is spent depends directly on how much of a recovery we have made? If we are still bottom 3 then I'm not sure where we go or who we can attract but if we have clawed back to around mid table perhaps we can tempt 1 or 2 key signings to ensure survival and they have to be a goal scoring striker and a central midfielder with pace.
A Hemell heskey, Kevin kyle, Keiren dyer. B.Eh defenders !. C. they play in the championship with Sunderland. Mourinho, and Wenger must be crapping themselves Poyet will manage us !, he won promotion with Brighton wow, champions league here we come. A frigging RIGHT BACK AND A LEFT BACK please. And bring Mig back.
A goalkeeper would be top of my Shopping list like. Bet Brad Friedel would jump at some playing time.
Or Given? Id like to see us go for the lad at Celtic Frazer Forster. I think he is a cracking keeper and we could probably do a swap and cash with Westwood.
If we had £30m to spend in the summer and we actually spent £1m that means Poyet has £29m to spend in January. That`s called logic that is.
Unless we've recovered a bit no-one will come! Apart from a few last-pay-day mercenaries. The priority is a few good results before worrying about the new window.
Its all about key signings in January and thank god it wont be any more loans. As soon as the season finishes we are going to regret having so many loan players again so I hope the club is ready for this. Add to that theres no way I would make any of them permanent anyway, maybe the Czech if its pennies.
What we should do in January is this : Buy several foreign players for around about 6 million quid each, and pretend that we have heard of them. Then, we keep our ****in fingers crossed that they can run in a straight line. However, we will not buy any full backs, out of principle.
not knowing much about brighton is there anybody there who you think he will try and sign, as he knows them all very well.
