There was/is a 5 year plan and it was referenced when the club accounts were released in May 2023There was never a 5 year plan mate, read that on here, especially when the wheels are starting to come off.
Sunderland’s ‘5-year plan’
In the club accounts for the year ending 2022, it read: “It remains the club’s ambition to return to the Premier League within 5 years since acquiring control.”Kyril Louis-Dreyfus completed his takeover in February 2021, so we can probably take it to mean five full seasons, since there was little he could actually control about the back end of the 2020/21 season.
So, essentially, the club’s stated aim in to be promoted by the end of the 2025/26 season. That essentially gives them this season and two more to get the job done.