Gone

He left 20 mins ago to join Stoke

 

What are the reasons for leaving?

 

Balls to him, the club is bigger and better ...

... we'll finish above Stoke.

 

Well the feel good factor lasted a good 3 months.

 

No control over transfer and refusing to give exten contract to 4 years

 

on the ball as usual Bob keep them coming

 

His timing is ****ing **** the disrespectful twat

 

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.

 

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.

 

He’s a ****ing lying ****.

He knew the structure he’d be working in when he took the job.

****ing Stoke. I hope they get relegated.

 

His deal I've been told was discussed after last week's match

 

Absolute joke mate

Fecking Speakman

 

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.

 

it's kld pulling the strings speakshit will be doing what he's told

 

Fcuking sick of it, away to get lashed.

Hopefully only require a gentle top up for whatever tomorrow will bring.

 

Others are saying that the club were happy to honour the contract but not the transfer policy. Just saying.....

 

Well this has well ****ing ruined my day. Absolutely gutted. Atmosphere could be rank tomorrow. ****ing Stoke City man. What a terrible move.

 

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.

 

Despite everyone calling out Speakman, he brought in O'Neil who did a job for us we clearly have a long term plan, Sunderland will go on. KTF HTL
Can't say I'm not gutted though. O'Neil walked past us supporters with a big smile and a wave at the end of the Stoke match, I thought he was happy, perhaps he was mocking us.

 

https://safc.com/news/team-news/2022/august/club-statement-alex-neil

Following a formal approach by SCFC, the Club is contractually obliged to permit the Head Coach to start a dialogue with the Potters.

The Club is committed to retaining Alex’s services as Head Coach and will be making no further comment at this moment in time.