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Speakman gone

you would have thought he will walk straight into another job in the uk if he wants it

theres plenty of clubs with owners with money who cant seem to spend it right!
 

“With Premier League status restored and a strengthened football leadership structure in place, the Board of Directors has made the decision to continue the Club’s journey without Kristjaan.

Director of Football Florent Ghisolfi will continue to lead Sunderland’s sporting programme after assuming control of all football operations in July 2025.”

This section is the most telling to me. He’s been moved out/aside
I did think that, it does sound like this may not have been the plan, at least not a plan everyone was on board or knew about. Kld is a ruthless young lad mind we’ve seen it before. We will see in the summer if this has been a good move or maybe a run before we’ve walked call.
 
You wouldn’t describe KLD’s brief comment or the club statement as terse exactly, but to me it’s lukewarm at best, considering the magnitude of Speakman’s success.
Very much so. Definitely a falling out or some performance issue here.
Yep, agree with this. The tone of the press release felt cold, given how long Speakman has been here. I can only imagine that being in such lofty positions leads to gargantuan egos.
Summer transfer target?
 
The sacking is great news. The club makes decisive decisions and having 2 different people in a similar role wasn’t working.

This decisiveness will be needed in selling top value players soon, to ensure we have a chance of reinvesting and staying up, and I also suspect RLB will be gone within a year. People will argue but if the ownership want progression RLB isn’t the man I’m afraid.
"Gee", d'ya think so, Southern Mag?
 
Very much so. Definitely a falling out or some performance issue here.

Summer transfer target?
No idea. I have no insights into the machinations of the ciub, but as others have said, there's a whiff of acrimony about all this unfortunately
 
On the lash all yesterday just woke up to this.
Thought it was fake.
Can’t decide if this is good or bad.
We won’t know till the summer really. People saying gilfy was in charge of all our summer business so who knows as that was a decent window. I thought two heads maybe better than one and speakman is obviously way better placed for the English games for instance. Thought he might have stayed and took care of that side including signing English talent for the aol etc. maybe that was the role he was offered and decided against it. Reading between the lines is always a dodgy thing to do but that statement from the club especially the hit about the board decided doesn’t scream it was the plan all along for him to go and the timing is again strange. We’ve done the strange timing thing a few times under kld so it’s not a surprise just something feels like this wasn’t the plan all a long type thing. We maybe wrong I doubt we will ever know either way but that’s football.
 
I hope that this wasn't a surprise to him and that this was fully planned in the long term (to be fair it sounds as though it was).

Fully expected him to have job offers all over and be bringing some kids through at some other upwardly mobile side in the very near future.

Great job Kristjaan 👍
 
I think that’s people projecting what they hope is the case as regards his speciality. Frankly it’s conjecture and speculation. The facts remain under his time here our playing staff and recruitment has largely been f***ing superb. If Ghisolfi was all about the summer transfers then fantastic. As that was superb too 👍 I’d worry that the ‘consensus on here’ know the square root of fuck all though about how involved - or not - speakman was this summer.
Aye I hoying my hopes n dreams in with them anarl. KS has done a superb job overall and I hope he resurfaces and repeats it elsewhere. Sheff Wed or Plymouth preferably. The PL needs its trad giants AND to be spread across the whole country imho.
 
No idea. I have no insights into the machinations of the ciub, but as others have said, there's a whiff of acrimony about all this unfortunately
This happens every day at work, why should sports industry pros be any different? Speakman has been set up for life and work prospects now. He literally did what he was asked to do, but cant scale anymore.
 
While he did a decent job overall,we are still left with a load of duffers like Ba .So I hope he comes back for some of these at his new club
 
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