Steve Bruce has the respect of his board at Sunderland, and the biggest reason is because of the qualities and values of the players that he brings into the club. George Caulkin of the Times reports on the stability that Sunderland looks to achieve with Bruce at the helm.
We already know what Bruce’s Sunderland means, or will come to mean. It means the hunger and alacrity of Darren Bent, the committed drive of men like Lee Cattermole and Lorik Cana, the rugged defending of Michael Turner. A lack of consistency is understandable in the context of their difficulties over the previous two years, but Bruce and Quinn are building something tangible, not producing it from nowhere.
Steady growth is the key and Aston Villa, where Randy Lerner has allowed Martin O’Neill the time and scope to construct a powerful squad, is the blueprint. To date, Ellis Short has been a model owner, allowing Quinn and his board to run the club and providing substantive funds for team strengthening. Having being promoted and now stabilised, the next challenge facing the club is to fill the ground on a regular basis.
“Steve gets what we’re all about,” Quinn told The Times. “He’s from this region and he’s promoting the kind of player who will buy into the kind of psyche we need and want. Football is so embedded in the psyche here. Certain people have come here in the past and they were showboaters, it didn’t click and it didn’t work - they fooled some of the people but not all of the people. We had to remove that kind of player.
“Obviously Steve is his own man and picks his own players to sign and I don’t interfere, but the great thing I know is that he’ll bring proper characters here, with proper respect for the North East. Lorik Cana, there’s a typical example. I’m told that people who go to work on a Monday feel really good about having him as their club captain, they talk about him on the assembly lines at work, chuffed to bits.
“That’s where Steve will do well at this football club. It’s a well-known term in the football world that managers live and die by the players they sign and Steve’s halfway there already because when you’ve got the kind of spirit he looks for in a player and he brings them to Sunderland, it’s half the battle.”
http://timesonline.typepad.com/thegame/2009/12/part-one-accomplished-now-quinns-mission-is-to-fill-the-stadium-of-light.html
We already know what Bruce’s Sunderland means, or will come to mean. It means the hunger and alacrity of Darren Bent, the committed drive of men like Lee Cattermole and Lorik Cana, the rugged defending of Michael Turner. A lack of consistency is understandable in the context of their difficulties over the previous two years, but Bruce and Quinn are building something tangible, not producing it from nowhere.
Steady growth is the key and Aston Villa, where Randy Lerner has allowed Martin O’Neill the time and scope to construct a powerful squad, is the blueprint. To date, Ellis Short has been a model owner, allowing Quinn and his board to run the club and providing substantive funds for team strengthening. Having being promoted and now stabilised, the next challenge facing the club is to fill the ground on a regular basis.
“Steve gets what we’re all about,” Quinn told The Times. “He’s from this region and he’s promoting the kind of player who will buy into the kind of psyche we need and want. Football is so embedded in the psyche here. Certain people have come here in the past and they were showboaters, it didn’t click and it didn’t work - they fooled some of the people but not all of the people. We had to remove that kind of player.
“Obviously Steve is his own man and picks his own players to sign and I don’t interfere, but the great thing I know is that he’ll bring proper characters here, with proper respect for the North East. Lorik Cana, there’s a typical example. I’m told that people who go to work on a Monday feel really good about having him as their club captain, they talk about him on the assembly lines at work, chuffed to bits.
“That’s where Steve will do well at this football club. It’s a well-known term in the football world that managers live and die by the players they sign and Steve’s halfway there already because when you’ve got the kind of spirit he looks for in a player and he brings them to Sunderland, it’s half the battle.”
http://timesonline.typepad.com/thegame/2009/12/part-one-accomplished-now-quinns-mission-is-to-fill-the-stadium-of-light.html
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