iambungle
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I suspect SD has just realized that he's not going to be able to make the easy, tidy profit he hoped from these American investors - so if he doesn't want to lose a ton of money propping up the club, he's got to get Sunderland promoted this year.
Ross has most likely had the biggest budget that League One has ever seen, and he's failed to get them promoted (unlike, as I pointed out yesterday, virtually every other big budget Championship club that's been relegated in the past five years - they've all bounced back at the first time of asking) or in position for an easy promotion this season. His sacking is well earned.
Honestly, his appointment was a head-scratcher in the first place. With so much on the line, why would you take a risk on someone with no experience of English football (barring one year at Hartlepool where he went AWOL because he was homesick)?
Bet whoever they appoint now has at least one lower league promotion in their back pocket.
He needed to get them promoted last year to do that so it's lucky for him they walked the league.....
He would have got the £50m he is after from the yanks no bother if they were in the championship but who in their right mind is going to pay that sort of money for a Div 3 club with only 1 guaranteed promotion slot if Ipswich keep it going?