Sunderland Sack Bruce

[michaelread]

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11695/7343417/Black-Cats-sack-Bruce

[MJG]

I wrote the other day about how he has walked out on clubs in the past so i have no sympathy for him at all.
And anyway is he that good a manager?Would any if you have him here?

[HatterDon]

I love it; transfer out all the talent because you don't want to pay the wages and then sack the gaffer when the club slides down the table.

[AlFayedsChequebook]

I love it; transfer out all the talent because you don't want to pay the wages and then sack the gaffer when the club slides down the table.

Whilst I dont rate Bruce as a manager, I agree with you here.

Bruce has had money to spend, but most of that has been recouped by the board selling players.

Hopefully they dont get Hughes, as he will do a good job.

[Jack Fulham]

I love it; transfer out all the talent because you don't want to pay the wages and then sack the gaffer when the club slides down the table.

Disagree, Steve Bruce had plenty of time to replace the talent except for Gyan but he still managed to get Bendtner in. He had quite a bit of money to spend in the summer and brought in players like Vaughan, Gardner and Larsson who're all decent premier league players. As for filling the Bent/Welbeck/Gyan gap, he only brought in Bendtner right at the very end and his only other striker signing being Conor Wickham for 8 Million who clearly isn't ready for this level yet. Sunderland started brightly the past two seasons but form fizzled out both times in the second half of the season which led to poorer than expected finishes.

Hughes and O'Neill are the obvious candidates.

[MOR :]

I have Mackem friends and I can honestly say he wasn't wanted to start with because of his Geordie roots. There is some real hatred between the two sets of supporters...it was never going too work...

[Burt]

They actually havent got that bad a squad, and were active in the last window, so no excuse really.

[MJG]

This is a good read about Bruce http://guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/nov/30/steve-bruce-sunderland-sacked?cat=football&type=article

[Burt]

"I'm not really in to tactics"...

Says it all really.

[timmyg]

I love it; transfer out all the talent because you don't want to pay the wages and then sack the gaffer when the club slides down the table.

I can't seem to find the post where I tallied all the transfers in and out of Sunderland under Bruce's reign, but the proof is in the pudding (if it can be found...)

Brucey wasn't selling talent and replacing it with bums. He simply had no clue what he was doing.

[dancrawford]

Have to agree with the growing consensus.

Simply amazed that Bruce has lasted as long as he did. Sunderland fans had long since lost patience with him. I think O'Neill's a Sunderland fan. Could he tempted?

[RidgeRider]

Ok, so where does he end up? Is he a Championship manager when the dust settles?

[Hazey]

Gee after reading the guardian article you have to wonder who was on the selection committee to appoint him in the first place?!?

[Drake44444]

wow "not into tactics" unbelievable

[BalDrick]

Absolute dinosaur and really the Sunderland board should be taking a long hard look at themselves for appointing someone so clearly behind the times - they're just as bad as when the article talks about Bruce not being able to send an email.

Decent size club, decent squad - be it MO'N or Leslie, or AN Other, there's a decent job waiting to be filled there. And Bruce was far from a hard act to follow - even Coleman might do better.

[luckykat]

Shame he's gone really as whoever comes in will do a better job and the Mackems will start to climb the table.

[ClarksOriginal]

30% win rate with major financial backing. If Bruce didn't play under SAF I think he'd be managing in League 1 at best, or not at all.

[leonffc]

For a start, how can any player take notice of someone that looks like he has a 'space hopper' on his shoulders?
Never rated him and have no sympathy the way he's shat on every club he's been at.
He's only been in the game so long because he played at utd under Ferguson.

[ClarksOriginal]

For a start, how can any player take notice of someone that looks like he has a 'space hopper' on his shoulders?
Never rated him and have no sympathy the way he's shat on every club he's been at.
He's only been in the game so long because he played at utd under Ferguson.

Must be an Ex-Man Utd thing, Hughes did the same on his clubs too.

[aussierod]

Would never want him at our club and I think he will be too 'proud' to drop to the Championship although that is his level. He will be one of the first candidate to be talked about when there is a sacking about to take place, alongside MO'N, Hughes, Curbishley, as well as previous favourites McClaren & Pardew. So relegation bound sides in the league looking for a change but too desperate to make the right one will appoint him, as he used to play at Man Utd so 'must' know football