Sunderland Manager announcement hangs on one major challenge – As Mike Dodds successor refuses to keep a backroom staff Sunderland wants

If Sunderland head coach candidate Paul Heckingbottom accepts the position,

he will be required to bring only one member of the club’s backroom staff.

Mike Dodds and Michael Proctor have worked with the Black Cats under Alex Neil, Tony Mowbray,

and Michael Beale, and the duo are anticipated to stay on until a new head coach is chosen.

Beale arrived at Sunderland without any staff and lasted only seven games before being fired,

though it is believed the goal was for the former Rangers manager to hire an assistant at some time,

but he simply wasn’t there long enough.

Alan Nixon, speaking on his Patreon account, claims that if former Sheffield United manager and Sunderland player Heckingbottom accepts the position,

he will be limited to bringing only one member of the backroom staff to the academy.

“Paul Heckingbottom may have to bring only ONE member of backroom staff if he takes the Sunderland job,” Nixon stated in an email.

“Hecky is the favourite for the position, as we disclosed last week,

but the Black Cats want to keep some of their current staff. And there may only be room for two arrivals, including Heckingbottom.

He’d have to choose between out-of-work Stuart McCall and Sheffield United coach Jack Lester.

“Sunderland are also interested in Sheffield Wednesday manager Danny Rohl, but that would require a large transfer cost.

Rohl would also like his own staff. This issue hampered Michael Beale,

who joined alone but wanted his own people eventually, but was shortly fired.”

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