Bruce sacked

Feel sorry for Bruce, he's a quality manager and has a great eye for signing reletively unknown players. I think its wrong to associate Bent with any of this, he left quite a while ago.

I think O'neil will get the job if he gets the funds he wants. The only thing is he never wants to stick around, especially if the money drys up. So it could well go to Curbishley.
 
Guess it depends what the objective is, I always view MON as a short-medium term option, he is very forthright and you know sooner or later he will have a disagreement with the chairman over something and throw the towel in (also health concerns for his wife linger, I'd imagine).

Not far off the drop zone, you could make a case for that being a good option. But, someone like Hughes might be more suited to a longer-term plan.
 
HangTime said:
Guess it depends what the objective is, I always view MON as a short-medium term option, he is very forthright and you know sooner or later he will have a disagreement with the chairman over something and throw the towel in (also health concerns for his wife linger, I'd imagine).

Not far off the drop zone, you could make a case for that being a good option. But, someone like Hughes might be more suited to a longer-term plan.
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The same Hughes that ditched Fulham after 1 year? ;)

MON's issues have always been about whether the club could match his ambitions or whether he's taken them as far as he can. With that in mind, I don't see an issue with MON for Sunderland, providing MON's expectations are to take Sunderland to the level that he got Villa to and not beyond that. That's ultimately the reason why he left Villa; it got to a stage where he couldn't take them any higher.
 
As I say, it depends on what the club want to do. From what I understand much of Hughes rationale for leaving Fulham was due to concerns over a lack of long-term planning, stalling contract talks etc. I get the impression he wants a long term project and perhaps Fulham didn't see it that way, or at least weren't prepared to commit to it.
 
I'm not sure whether it was a lack of longterm planning or that he believed Fulham simply weren't capable of matching his ambitions. The way I see it, Hughes wants a big job where as MON wants a job where he can continually progress; he'd still be at Villa had he believed it was possible to take them further than what he did.
 
Well done Agent Bruce :D:D:D:D:D keep them mackems in their place :D:D:D:D

And O'Neil?!?! He'll quit in Febuary after he realises he can't spend £50million every transfer window on average players.
 
sandy10 said:
As a Villa fan, I can only say it's one clown to another for the Mackems I feel!....:p
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To be fair I have been reading around the story and looking a bit at O'Neil and honestly, is he all that?

I haven't rated him in a long time, great job at Leicster but since then Celtic? Pffft. Villa? Decent job but when the money ran out (and he couldn't get them big time with the money) he threw a wobbler and walked.

He'll never get a big job and personally I think Sunderland would do better with someone else or an up and comer like Clark (though would never happen due to his past with them) Babbel (at Stuttgart) Solskajer (or however you spell it :p) or someone of that ilk.

But hey, as long as they stay below us I don't care! :D
 
Red and White said:
yes because he did a terrible job at villa:rolleyes:
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He didn't do a wonderful job in actuality - 3 x 6th place finishes isn't mind blowing, and on each occasion he was unable to push on and break the top 4 - by the end of his tenure I was very very tired of his constant moaning about depth of squad and quality of players, when he himself blew millions on dross like Curtis Davies, Nigel Reo-Coker, Nicky Shorey and then refused to play them.

We had a real chance to get established prior to the big money ploughed in by Spurs and Man City who have now lost us in their wake.

Good riddance and good luck!
 
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sandy10 said:
He didn't do a wonderful job in actuality - 3 x 6th place finishes isn't mind blowing, and on each occasion he was unable to push on and break the top 4 - by the end of his tenure I was very very tired of his constant moaning about depth of squad and quality of players, when he himself blew millions on dross like Curtis Davies, Nigel Reo-Coker, Nicky Shorey and then refused to play them.

We had a real chance to get established prior to the big money ploughed in by Spurs and Man City who have now lost us in their wake.

Good riddance and good luck!
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yes you are much better off now
 
Red and White said:
yes you are much better off now
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You mean after our transfer budget has been slashed and our best players sold off for the past 3 summers?

At least we could raid a smaller club for their only goalscoring threat to salvage our season last year.


Funny thing is, after all that money splashed out by Bruce, MON has to completely rebuild their squad - wonderful!
 
Red and White said:
no wonder he walked away from you. a selling club and always will be.
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Obviously that was the case when we paid £24m for consistently one of the top scoring English strikers in the game.


IF only we could have sold some of the dross MON acquired, rather than give them away at bargain basement prices.
 
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