I have to say I find this all a little offensive ...
... Mowbray is blithely contradicting decent Sunderland supporters who know the truth.
The club were quite happy to sell off Stewart along with Batth, Pritchard, Neil, Clarke, Roberts, Patterson, etc, without bringing in replacements, in the pursuit of profit over ambition. Thankfully people aren't fooled by this attempted cover up from Mowbray who's furious with Speakman but being coerced into repeating the rhetoric ... shame on him for taking the company dollar and calling a French speaking player French, the club is a laughing stock.
It's naive of the club to believe they can fool people when the facts are so readily available from people on the internet
And don't get me started on us refusing to persuade Stansfield to move the length of the country, for one season, to sit on the bench when Stewart's fit