Sunderland Board divided on the decision of Will Still and Liam Rosenior appointment

Over the summer, a number of EFL teams, including Sunderland, will be considering Liam Rosenior as their next head coach.

The former Hull City manager was surprisingly removed of his duties at MKM Stadium.

He had been nominated for Championship Manager of the Season, but the decision to fire Rosenior, 39,

who had previously played for the Tigers, was based on his team’s style of play.

He had a lot of good players to work with, including the likes of Jaden Philogene, Jacob Greaves,

and Fabior Carvalho (for the later part of the season in the case of the Liverpool loanee), but he wasn’t able to guide them into the play-offs.

Since he became available, clubs with significant dugout vacancies approached the young coach.

According to journalist Alan Nixon, both Plymouth Argyle and Birmingham City’s approaches to Rosenior have been refused.

Nixon believes the former Hull manager is on Sunderland’s list of objectives.

They have been without a head coach since mid-February, when Michael Beale quit the club.

Football League World’s Black Cats fan pundit, Jack Austwicke, has shared his thoughts on whether his team should pursue the 39-year-old.

Sunderland fans’ thoughts on Liam Rosenior

According to Austwicke, the former Hull City manager should not be Sunderland’s first choice,

but he recognises the benefits he would bring to the club.

“I think Rosenior would be a good option,” remarked FLW’s Black Cats fan commentator.

“I would definitely take him at Sunderland right now.

He probably could have done a better job with the entire club; they should have made the playoffs, but that didn’t happen.

But, given his starting point, I believe he performed admirably, and I believe he is an excellent manager.

But I’m still not sure whether I’d choose him over Will Still, which I’m pretty sure will happen at this point.

“It is difficult to say. Rosenior has Championship experience, which is undoubtedly valuable,

and I don’t believe he will be short of options; sources indicate that he has already turned down Plymouth.

So I think he’ll be in good stead no matter where he goes.”

Sunderland have less pressure to move on with managerial decisions.

Despite promises to select a new head coach soon after the season’s finish,

and reports of confidence in their ability to do so, the name of the person who would succeed Mike Dodds remains unclear.

Other possibilities besides Rosenior have been connected to replace the current dugout vacancy.

Still, who Austwicke stated as his top candidate, as well as former Sheffield United manager Paul Heckingbottom,

have been mooted as potential Sunderland targets.

Then there are the slightly more unusual choices of Bo Svensson (Mainz head coach) and Rene Maric (Bayern Munich under-19s coach),

though the former has been associated with the future Union Berlin manager.

The primary concern for clubs in a similar situation to the Black Cats is that

they will hard to fully begin their recruitment until the new management is in place.

Sunderland don’t have to worry about it because their transfer decisions rarely involve the head coach.

They simply want them to work with the players they are assigned.

There are, of course, difficulties with this concept,

but it does mean that they should be able to continue acquiring people even when they don’t have a boss of the team.

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