FlyingMackem

This is quite damning, unfortunately. Obviously unsustainable in League One. The revenue will take a right twatting.

Not at all. We had a decent 10 years in the Premier League with our owner Ellis Short, but by the end we ended up on the manager merry-go-round. Short had one more throw of the dice and hired Moyes who he had said publicly was the manager he had always wanted. Moyes brought a defeatist attitude stating we were in a relegation battle after 2 games and the rest of the season was a joke. After this, the owner lost interest and made it clear he would no longer fund the club and we had to find a way to be self sufficient, which is when all of the dog mince signings come in. In the Championship, managers and players were both no concern to the owner and so we free fell into League One. After this, Short decided he wanted rid of Sunderland completely, but the club owed him around £300m. He struggled to find a buyer at that price so wrote the debt off that was owned to himself and two charlatans bought the club using it's own parachute payments. They gambled on a club as big as Sunderland making an instant return to the Championship but couldn't afford to recruit well. Eventually they sold a stake to Kyril Louis-Dreyfus who started to run the club professionally and implement a Brighton like model which so far has been successful. He is now the majority owner and has done wonders in re-connecting the club to the fans and the city. The other two, Stewart Donald and Charlie Methven I believe have gone to Charlton and Oxford and done **** all. Most of this can all be seen first hand in the Netflix documentary Sunderland 'Till I Die. Unfortunately a new owner looks like the only way out of Leicester's mess. If I was Leicester, I would have a look at Kristjaan Speakman. He has recently been let go by Sunderland but he was the bloke that recruited Sunderland's never say die youth that got us promoted back to the PL with very little spent. He was also involved in the recruitment that has seen us survive this season. 4 of his players played (and 3 scored) in the 4-3 defeat to Villa on Sunday. Rigg, O'Nien, Isidor and Hume.

Thank you. It will get better. It just takes time. You just have to believe it can.

You'll all be in disbelief at some of the stuff you'll see next season.

As a Sunderland fan, I have every sympathy. However unlikely survival looks, hopefully you do it. To the fans that 'want a reset', be careful what you wish for. That is exactly how I felt. 4 seasons later and I was still turning up to watch dogshit turgid football. The memory is still fresh and I still can't believe some of the players that were given the chance to wear the red and white stripes. All but a few were complete dog mince. 2018-19 - finishing 5th, losing to Charlton in the PO final (for the second time) and our top scorer Josh Maja being sold cos we didn't have a pot to piss in. 2019-20 - finishing 8th. The lowest finish in the clubs history and the darkest of days for the club. Top scorer that season with the lofty heights of 11 goals? Lynden Gooch. 2020-21 - Finishing 4th and losing the PO semi final to Lincoln City with Charlie Wyke scoring 26 goals and being poached by Wigan ****ing Athletic for £10k a week cos we didn't have a pot to piss in. 2021-22 - Finishing 5th but finally promoted via the play offs. Ross Stewart scoring 26 goals and sold to Southampton cos we didn't have a pot to piss in. Also lost 0-6 to Bolton that season. Highest attendance in league one - 46,039. A boring 1-0 win against Bradford City on Boxing day. Average attendance in league one - around 31,000. Not one attendance really mattered as we still played shite. We were treat like a cup final, as Leicester would be. A scalp. I lost count of how many teams played out of their skin to get a result against us, to then go and lose their next game cos they were knackered. At risk of sounding like a prat, we were the biggest club in league one and we didn't half feel it but in a negative way. Managed by Jack Ross, Phil Parkinson, Lee Johnson, Alex Neil. Honourable mentions to the following: Lee Johnson having a social media burner account to have a dig at the ownership, Defoe coming back for 5 games before deciding he couldn't be arsed with league one and cancelling his contract, Netflix documentaries for the world to see us at our lowest. Owner calling us thick northerners (fair enough), another owner claiming a Sunderland fan kidnapped his daughter. Alex Neil going to watch a Stoke game hours before he was supposed to manage one of our games. Opposition players that supported Newcastle always scoring against us and doing the Shearer celebration. Having to play Newcastle U21's in pizza cup. A first Wembley win in donkeys years but in front of zero fans because of Covid. 50% of what I mentioned above happened after our greatest rivals became the richest club in the world. It was a dark, exhausting, long 5 years and if you do go down, hopefully you bounce straight back up. If those so called championship players don't bounce back and start to leave, it could get messy. And don't forgot, Sunderland didn't even have a PL title win, no cup for about 55 years and zero European football in most fans' lifetimes to look back on fondly. Best of luck for the future.