Keeping The Dream Alive.
Naming Rights
Lay, lay and lay again.
Whilst not wanting him to leave and the fact it would potentially enormously mess us up, I think it would be more understandable than Reading.
Would be a great job for Poyet.
Perfect 'stepping stone' to a one of his more coveted positions. Sunderland are a 'proper' club, with decent support, facilities and potential.
On the negative, near relegation and would he really want to move to the North East?
Di Canio an early favourite!
clippedgull;5609642 Good young manager.[/QUOTE said:I thought Martin O'Neil was too although not young. Very difficult job it would seem.
I'm tipping Brian McDermott for the Sunderland job.
Good young manager.
Cue the Martin O Neill fan on NSC who keeps saying he did well at
Celtic .... A 2 horse race, and their new owner then outspent Rangers eg Sutton, Hartson
Villa .... Big money on Reo-C, Harewood, Delph, Hutton, Curtis Davis, Luke Young etc
A net spend of £120m they didn't have.
Not a great manager in recent times.
Only 9/1 on Betfair now
Here we go again. Gus listed at bookies, speculation on NSC, speculation spills over to social media, press pick up on social media "buzz" and spin it into Gus being linked with the job, press reports fuel more speculation which fuels more press reports before Gus stays here, although is crucified by Brighton fans for "considering the job", regardless of how seriously he was actually looking at it (or if he even was). How long till someone questions Gus' loyalty?
Please let it be this goon
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The blame is not all on social media. Gus is a young manager with a bright future, he has a promotion under his belt in his first full year in management, he is a notable name in football, managing us when we are getting a fair bit of notice in football with the new stadium, and top half of the championship run for these last two seasons.
Football journalist will always look at him as a potential candidate, regardless of what fans say on twitter. Even if they don't think he will be the manager, he is an archetype, they can point to him as the sort of manager a team would be after and others will understand what that means.
They were discussing it on Sunday supplement this morning, and whether Sunderland would go for a firefighter type manager to turn their free fall around, or if they would go for a young manager with potential, who will be there for the long term, like poyet. One of the problems mentioned with Martin o'neil was his reliance on home nation players, and how other teams were unearthing cheaper gems. Gus has done pretty well signing some lesser known gems from abroad, so it's another reason they would suggest him.