David Moyes is on course to become the first Sunderland manager since Steve Bruce to see out a full season at the Stadium of Light.
Sunderland manager David Moyes
David Moyes has suggested that Sunderland supporters would claim that changing managers frequently is not a strategy that is working at the Stadium of Light, the Sunderland Echo reports.
Moyes continues to be under pressure with the Black Cats as their situation in the Premier League looks bleak at best. With 10 games to go, they are seven points adrift of safety and will need one of their finest great escapes to pull themselves out of danger.
However, that pressure does not seem to be surrounding his job with the Telegraph recently suggesting that he will still be allowed to be in charge even if they fall into the Championship, and Moyes has seemingly suggested that the fans will be happy about that stability.
“I think Sunderland supporters have been through it all before, and they would turn around and tell you that changing manager is not the right way – the club has tried that,” he said, as reported by the Sunderland Echo.
“I think they have seen that it has not worked, and the club has had to look to try something else.
“But when you’re not winning, you get the criticism that goes with it.”
Although the managerial strategy of previous years has seemingly not done Sunderland any favours in the long-term – Moyes looks set to be the first manager since Steve Bruce to oversee a campaign from start to finish at the club – it appears to have had a positive impact on their ability to stay up each year, with the likes of Paolo Di Canio, Gus Poyet, Dick Advocaat and Sam Allarydce all overseeing astonishing escapes shortly after their arrivals.
But perhaps going down and having that clean slate that will allow them to start again may actually be the best way for the club to end the vicious cycle of just doing enough each year to stay out of the bottom three and nothing more.
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