If it isn't Billy Still, I think the new Manager/Coach will come from out of nowhere like an RKO. By that I mean, no one mentioned yet. AND, IF the Sunderland job is a one person position only, whereby he must leave his dog at the gates on the way in, then we're going to struggle to find the person we need. Just in my humble opinion. I've seen plenty comments about this one been on holiday and this one etc and it'll he sorted afterwards, we took the second half of last season off so I refuse to believe there's no irons on the fire.
So what was the plan for this year? We know what the plan was. Speakman told us. Did we get automatic promotion? Apologies if I missed that.
Year 3 - failed. By Speakman's own metric. The objective will not be achieved within 5 years. We can always catch up by playing two season's worth of games next year, getting promoted and then staying up, but I assume we'd have to run it past the other clubs....
Have a look at the bio on his profile... Seems to put to bed the licence problem that's been suggested.