Poyet Pleads For New Personnel


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When Philips was signed no one knew who he was, and I can remember people kicking off saying we had bought a Watford reject, and most people had given up on Quinny..funny what good management can do isn't it

Some good management there but it was mainly just them working unbelievably well together. And just being exceptionally talented at doing great things that great strikers do.

People are also saying Gus is the problem and he must go.

Patience is an important thing in football.

Don't write people off when it's early days. And this is still early days for Gus.
 
Scocco and Rodwell have both bombed up to now. And keeping Altidore more than the first week he was here reflects badly on Poyet's ability to see a good player or otherwise.
We would have sold Altidore months ago if there was a buyer....
 
Some good management there but it was mainly just them working unbelievably well together. And just being exceptionally talented at doing great things that great strikers do.

People are also saying Gus is the problem and he must go.

Patience is an important thing in football.

Don't write people off when it's early days. And this is still early days for Gus.

There no such thing as patience, this is a results business and if you snooze you lose
 
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Gustavo Poyet fears Sunderland remain “miles away” from where he would like to position the club.

The Black Cats are 16th in the Premier League, one point above the relegation zone following Saturday’s 1-0 defeat to Liverpool at the Stadium of Light.

They have won just three league games this season, only one on Wearside and once, also, in their last 11 top-flight outings. Poyet believes the club is moving, albeit slowly, in the right direction, away from a recent past spent yo-yoing between the Premier League and the Championship, or staving off relegation from the former to the latter on an annual basis.

Those teams were “rubbish”, he said, “full of bad decisions and suffering” and lacked “characteristics”.

The Uruguayan continues to attempt to stamp some degree of identity on Sunderland.

But while trying to “find a way together”, Poyet believes there is still a long way to go.

Asked why his players had backed off from their Liverpool opponents, rather than close them down, he said: “There was confusion.

“It’s about understanding the game. We need to be flexible. You cannot take things literally.

“When you go on the pitch things are going to happen and I cannot predict what will happen.

“You don’t know if a team will play four in the middle, square across the pitch. You need to adapt.

“The disappointing thing is we sorted it out at half-time. I was expecting my team to be able to sort it out themselves. That is why I am disappointed.

“(Getting into opponents’ faces) was the characteristic of one Sunderland. Kevin Phillips and (Niall) Quinn.

“The rest of the teams of Sunderland (between then and now) did not have any characteristics. They were rubbish. They were playing for relegation and suffering.

“I am trying something. But we are miles away to a point that it worries me a little bit.”



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Sunderland manager Gus Poyet before the match


Invited to compare those teams he deemed “rubbish” to his own, Poyet added: “I don’t care, I am just saying what I feel.

“We have to be realistic. Sunderland have been in the top 10 once in the last 15 years I think. The rest have been full of bad decisions and suffering.

“One season they had a player who scored 24 goals (Darren Bent) and since that player left, no one has scored more than 15.

“I could give you all the stats you like, but it is very simple. You cannot go backwards.

“Niall Quinn retired a few years ago and Kevin Phillips is a coach at Leicester (City) so we can’t go back to that team.

“We need to find a way together, making the team play in a certain way. We have to be better and more adaptable, more intelligent on the pitch as a team and we are not.

“Maybe we should play Newcastle every week.

“I accept we gave away 45 minutes today. After that we tried. I cannot ask for any more than that with the personnel we have got.

“I was expecting against Leeds (United, in the FA Cup third round eight days ago) for my team to control the game but we didn’t. That really made me feel bad.

“We have no option but to keep going, to make it better, make better changes and decisions.

“The players (Steven Fletcher, Jozy Altidore, Jack Rodwell, Lee Cattermole and Anthony Reveillere) coming back from injury have big, big chances now. I need them. I hope they take them.”
The blokes begging for the bullet.
 
We also had two of the greatest strikers ever to play for Sunderland. Two of them in the same team playing like nothing else we've seen since. They were bloody amazing. We can only dream of having a duo like that up top again.

And players on the flanks that could cross a ball, and midfielders who would battle for every last minute of a game not giving any opposition a second on the ball to get their heads up and pick out a pass so an average defence didn't have that much to do but mop up and pass back out to the wingers to put pressure on the opposition again.
 
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Gustavo Poyet fears Sunderland remain “miles away” from where he would like to position the club.

The Black Cats are 16th in the Premier League, one point above the relegation zone following Saturday’s 1-0 defeat to Liverpool at the Stadium of Light.

They have won just three league games this season, only one on Wearside and once, also, in their last 11 top-flight outings. Poyet believes the club is moving, albeit slowly, in the right direction, away from a recent past spent yo-yoing between the Premier League and the Championship, or staving off relegation from the former to the latter on an annual basis.

Those teams were “rubbish”, he said, “full of bad decisions and suffering” and lacked “characteristics”.

The Uruguayan continues to attempt to stamp some degree of identity on Sunderland.

But while trying to “find a way together”, Poyet believes there is still a long way to go.

Asked why his players had backed off from their Liverpool opponents, rather than close them down, he said: “There was confusion.

“It’s about understanding the game. We need to be flexible. You cannot take things literally.

“When you go on the pitch things are going to happen and I cannot predict what will happen.

“You don’t know if a team will play four in the middle, square across the pitch. You need to adapt.

“The disappointing thing is we sorted it out at half-time. I was expecting my team to be able to sort it out themselves. That is why I am disappointed.

“(Getting into opponents’ faces) was the characteristic of one Sunderland. Kevin Phillips and (Niall) Quinn.

“The rest of the teams of Sunderland (between then and now) did not have any characteristics. They were rubbish. They were playing for relegation and suffering.

“I am trying something. But we are miles away to a point that it worries me a little bit.”



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Sunderland manager Gus Poyet before the match


Invited to compare those teams he deemed “rubbish” to his own, Poyet added: “I don’t care, I am just saying what I feel.

“We have to be realistic. Sunderland have been in the top 10 once in the last 15 years I think. The rest have been full of bad decisions and suffering.

“One season they had a player who scored 24 goals (Darren Bent) and since that player left, no one has scored more than 15.

“I could give you all the stats you like, but it is very simple. You cannot go backwards.

“Niall Quinn retired a few years ago and Kevin Phillips is a coach at Leicester (City) so we can’t go back to that team.

“We need to find a way together, making the team play in a certain way. We have to be better and more adaptable, more intelligent on the pitch as a team and we are not.

“Maybe we should play Newcastle every week.

“I accept we gave away 45 minutes today. After that we tried. I cannot ask for any more than that with the personnel we have got.

“I was expecting against Leeds (United, in the FA Cup third round eight days ago) for my team to control the game but we didn’t. That really made me feel bad.

“We have no option but to keep going, to make it better, make better changes and decisions.

“The players (Steven Fletcher, Jozy Altidore, Jack Rodwell, Lee Cattermole and Anthony Reveillere) coming back from injury have big, big chances now. I need them. I hope they take them.”

Gus says things have been f***ing shite since Phillips and Quinn and now the hysterical bedwetters are saying that's the last straw.

f***ing hilarious.

He's telling the truth and you know it.

Same thing we fans are saying every week, Gus says it and it's meltdown time.

:confused:
 
How do you know that ?
Poyet said on the summer he told Altidore he would have a periphery role this season. He also said later that we wanted another striker but couldn't while we had 4 on the books and we couldn't get rid of any.
 
To an extent. But teams like Southampton and Swansea didn't get where they are without patience...

I'll think you'll find that both have sacked managers while the season was only half way though !

Gus says things have been f***ing shite since Phillips and Quinn and now the hysterical bedwetters are saying that's the last straw.

f***ing hilarious.

He's telling the truth and you know it.

Same thing we fans are saying every week, Gus says it and it's meltdown time.

:confused:

And he also said he didn't know how Liverpool would set up..so who's the clown :oops:
 
I'll think you'll find that both have sacked managers while the season was only half way though !
I'm not on about managers ffs. To implement a philosophy, a style and clear recruitment policy. We are still early into our development on that stage. It may never come to fruition but that's the blueprint we are following. It's not panic stations yet, see how the next month goes.
 
"...We need to find a way together, making the team play in a certain way. We have to be better and more adaptable, more intelligent on the pitch as a team and we are not.

“Maybe we should play Newcastle every week..."

That is a shrewd observation by Gus, a sure fire route to win the league by 40 points each season on our current form in that regard.
 
I'm not on about managers ffs. To implement a philosophy, a style and clear recruitment policy. We are still early into our development on that stage. It may never come to fruition but that's the blueprint we are following. It's not panic stations yet, see how the next month goes.

Every manager has a blueprint FFS if he didn't he wouldn't get the f***ing job in the first place..so poyet's no better
 
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