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Not Roy Keane

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Roy Keane is no longer in the running for the vacant Sunderland manager's job, after the two parties could not come to an agreement.
Brace for meltdown.
 

Please see post #12,716 (!). David Walsh article in The Sunday Times.

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"What did he mean? It would depend upon the club, he said. And then he brought up Sunderland. The point was that if by some freak of disastrous results, Sunderland lost their place in the Football League and he was asked to become their manager, he would seriously consider the offer. Even if they were non-League, Sunderland, he said, were a club with a fine history, a great stadium, a big and passionate following."

Given Keane's comments, the mind boggles as to what has made him have such a change of heart.
 
Lord Alfred said:
But the people you're disparaging have also supported the club through thick and thin. I've had 55 years of it and called time on it during the Parkinson era.

I'm not saying our owners think this way but it's easy to think that "they'll always turn up" and recently we always have. Maybe they need to be shown that we can't always be taken for granted.
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If everyone does that, there is no club. Is that really what you want? Whoever comes in will have my full support. That's what you do. The problem is that people have got too much emotionally invested in this; we seem to have a sentimental streak wider than the Atlantic. I've learned that getting overstressed over things I can't control is unhealthy.

I was never convinced that Keane was the right choice anyway, but I'd have accepted it if he had come in. The word is that it's now between McCann, Neil and Lamouchi. For me, Neil 1st, the Lamouchi, then McCann.
 
thecloughywobble said:
Please see post #12,716 (!). David Walsh article in The Sunday Times.

Snippet:

"What did he mean? It would depend upon the club, he said. And then he brought up Sunderland. The point was that if by some freak of disastrous results, Sunderland lost their place in the Football League and he was asked to become their manager, he would seriously consider the offer. Even if they were non-League, Sunderland, he said, were a club with a fine history, a great stadium, a big and passionate following."

Given Keane's comments, the mind boggles as to what has made him have such a change of heart.
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The simple fact it’s taken 11 days might be a good start
 
Mackem2017 said:
If it was some cook at the club or whatever I wouldn’t have even said anything but the person who told me is from the first team and they said it was done and he’d be there Saturday etc and that’s obviously what the club thought. They’ve possibly been naive, amateurish or underestimated Keane but it looks like it’s backfired however until we appoint a new manager there’s always hope!
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That's true, although it's ebbing away at a rate of knots....
 
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