By Alan Nixon
Sunderland will have to pay a hefty compensation fee for QPR boss Marti Cifuentes.
The Black Cats have switched their managerial search around dramatically in the last few days with the Spaniard a favourite of leading figures at the club.
But Rangers will ask for a six figure fee for Cifuentes and Sunderland would have no option but to fork out.
Dutchman Pascal Jansen has strangely slipped out of the race after a meeting last week.
And Liam Rosenior also spoke with the seven man interview panel but is comfortable waiting on offers.
Sunderland seem to have many opinions within their ranks with one experienced official keen on St Mirren’s Stephen Robinson and Stockport rising star Dave Challinor.
The saga has also seen Bo Svensson go elsewhere and the elusive Will Still failed to commit either.
In the past Sunderland boobed badly with Michael Beale while the appointment of Tony Mowbray was down to their chief scout knowing him from Blackburn Rovers.
This chase has included input from adviser and Sky Sports pundit Dave Jones. Despite all of this expertise they are yet to get their man.
Load of ****e. He's even including names that he had made up to add a bit of accuracy to his previous inaccurate ****.
Challinor and Robinson - I'm sure He's only included them so people can't criticise him for getting it wrong every single time he's said something about us.
However, he did use the word boobed, so perhaps he's not as much of a twunt as I think.