It’s not long now before the season finally comes to an end which is something that feels like it has taken an age to come to, anyways, here are the latest things going on around Sunderland…
SPEAKMAN OUT?
This weekend it was rumoured that Kristjaan Speakman could be on his way out of the club at the end of the season, with French club Lyon linked with him. Speakman is somewhat of a polarizing figure at Sunderland, whether he is good for us or not divides Sunderland fans. For example, when the rumours came about, we ran a poll on X (formerly Twitter) to see if fans would be happy or sad to see him go. There was almost three thousand votes, where 53.6% of those said they would be happy to see him go, and the remaining 46.6% said they would be sad to see him depart the club.
Personally, I think he did a great job and played his part in getting us promoted to the Championship, the signings of players like Patrick Roberts and Jack Clarke in League One are very impressive, but in the last year the decisions that have been made have been really poor. Sacking Mowbray and replacing him with he who shall not be named, as well as signing four strikers, all of which have been displaced by a 18 year old playing out of position isn’t good.