Sunderland could target a move for Ally McCoist as their new manager.
According to The Sun, Sunderland chief executive Martin Bain wants to appoint Ally McCoist as the club’s new manager following Simon Grayson’s exit, potentially bringing him back to the club.
Sunderland drew 3-3 at home with Bolton on Tuesday night, and just five minutes after the final whistle, the Black Cats confirmed the sacking of manager Grayson.
Grayson only left Preston North End to join Sunderland in June, but he finds himself out of a job already having won just once in 15 Championship games, with poor defending and torrid home form again plaguing the Black Cats.
Robbie Stockdale and Billy McKinlay took charge of today’s 1-0 defeat at Middlesbrough, but Sunderland may now look to bring in an external appointment to take the club forward.
The current favourite with Sky Bet is Sunderland defender John O’Shea, but The Sun claim that Sunderland chief executive Martin Bain has identified Ally McCoist as his top target for the job.
Bain worked with McCoist at Rangers before heading to Sunderland, and the Black Cats supremo could now look to reunite at the Stadium of Light in a move which would see McCoist return to Wearside.
Former striker McCoist, 55, scored nine goals in 65 games for Sunderland before joining Rangers in 1983, where he scored 375 goals in 581 games, before becoming their manager in 2011.
McCoist was largely tasked with getting Rangers back up the divisions after their liquidation, and won almost 73% of his games before moving on in 2014, but he hasn’t had a managerial job since – and fans may be concerned about appointing somebody who has been out of the game for almost three years.
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