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If he was still on a one year rolling deal, you just cannot blame him. He is not a Sunderland supporter, and nor will any other manager.

He is about forty. He has a lot of life to support, and in a precarious business like football, he has to look after himself and his family. If he has a three year deal there then he was going to leave .

He had earned a contract without a doubt and I can't see how that can be argued with. The change he has wrought has been staggering.

Maybe this new idea of treating a manager like an easily replaced drone will catch on. Maybe there are other examples of a manager coming in and doing this well and not being rewarded. Maybe.

Looks like another fantastic piece of work by Speakman, who is getting every big decision wrong . The bloke is like a bad illness, and my reservations about him have never left me. He likes power . He's got it. And he is in over his head. Although I'm sure he is well immersed in his " project".

Any one calling the club a joke is hard to criticise.
 
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Flash Gordon said:
This is non negotiable. This is how we operate, don't come if you don't like it.

As for the next man, lets not be daft and go and get an old school manager who wants control. Dyche will be heavily linked but he's a non starter.
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If it's " non negotiable " we should dispense with the idea of a manager. Let Speakman do it. He has all the power, let the garrulous and pretentious no mark take the responsibility as well.

With an average life of less than a year, no manager worth his salt would touch this job.
 
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rowley said:
If it's " non negotiable " we should dispense with the idea of a manager. Let Speakman do it. He has all the power, let the garrulous and pretentious no mark take the responsibility as well.

With an average life of less than a year, no manager worth his salt would touch this job.
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I am not being pedantic here but a head coach is not a manager. He will be a manager at stoke. Here he is a head coach who has some say on transfers, but not the only say. His job really is to create a team, playing in a certain way, and that gets results. He has done that brilliantly well, but I suspect that is not how he wants to work for long. He has used us a shop window, and we got a promotion out of it, maybe a fair trade so long as we now upgrade on him, which isnt as hard as it may at first seem in my opinion.
 
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