Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
9th October 2013
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/new-sunderland-manager-gus-poyet-2354754#.UuEV7ftFArg
He made no secret of it and I thought this was commmon knowledge.
He said: "I've got no worries about the structure when everyone works for the same aim and the good of the club.
"I need Roberto, and I need Roberto to do well for me because the better Roberto does, the better players I get.
"Will he buy the players? I think it's a relationship. You have to explain to him exactly what you want and for him to [then] look for them. I cannot do this job.
"The big players I see every weekend, but to find others - well, someone [else] needs to do it. This is our recruitment system.
"We will sit down, discuss the qualities of the players, and then the club needs to make the decision on the financials. Then you come to a conclusion.
"I think that's fair and I'm happy with it. I've got no issues with it whatsoever."
He added: "To change now from one day to the next and try something totally new would be crazy. To stop losing games, we need to stop conceding goals and score a few. That's common sense.
"Right now, we're conceding too many - three, three, three, three, two. It's too many.
"If you concede that many goals per game in the Premier League, you're going to have little chance of winning games.
"It's something we need to address defensively in terms of organisation, decisions, picking the right team and putting the right players in the right positions.
"Then slowly, you can start building the way we want to play.
"It's up to me to make sure the players embrace this philosophy and way of training, living football, playing football and winning games."
That is his actual quotes. The rest is the journalist putting 2 + 2 together