Ahead of our first preseason game against South Shields, their manager and former Sunderland player Julio Arca has spoken positively about Mogga and the Lads.
TONY PRAISE
“I exchanged a few texts with Tony. I spent some time between March and May with Sunderland helping Jewison Bennette learn the language and all that so I spent some time there. I know what Tony is like, I know the people working alongside him, good people who have done a fantastic job. If there is anyone you can learn from it’s definitely Tony, especially the way they’ve been playing.”
PATIENCE
“The main thing is just be yourself, do what you think is best for the team, try to play the way you want to play. Every process takes time so it might take some time to play the way we want to play but we will try. I think the players are prepared to try different things as well.”
LET EVERYONE PLAY
“They have got a split squad. We are more or less going to do the same because it’s our second game of pre-season. We are looking to play everyone. We might split the team for 45 minutes to give everyone time to play.”
BIGGEST GATE EVER
“It’s exciting for the club to have such a big club like Sunderland here, biggest gate ever apparently. There are going to be a lot of people, over 3,000 people, so we are looking forward to that.”
