Phil Smith: The big risk Sunderland are taking as head coach search drags on and silence continues for fans

Next Monday marks one hundred days since Michael Beale’s dismissal,

and Sunderland is yet to name a replacement.
Sunderland supporters continue to wait.

Three weeks will have passed since the painfully disappointing Championship campaign came to an end on Saturday,

yet no one has been held accountable or had their hands raised.

Most importantly, there isn’t a clear plan of action, no boundary established,

and nothing to reassure supporters that things will be different when they return after the summer.

The sporting director or any other senior club official has not commented alongside the publishing of the retained list.

The club’s recently appointed chief business officer has publicly discussed his goals for

the future and his mainWhat’s maybe even more amazing is that Mike Dodds has been in interim leadership since

“We will be updating our supporters further as and when significant developments are made,

” Kristjaan Speakman said at the time in a club statement.

That was ninety-five days ago. Nothing has happened since then.

The season dragged on, the front-foot playing style vanished, and the results fell apart.

On the field, Sunderland were directionless, and it was hard to ignore the connection that, at least partially,

sprang from their lack of direction off it. Chairman Kyril Louis-Dreyfus has not spoken to fans personally since

he apologized on social media for the Black Cats Bar incident in January.

If not acceptance, at least an understanding that this was done partly to allow the club the breathing room

and time to sort things out in preparation for a summer reconstruction was there.

meeting that the club had desired some time to consider the reasons behind Beale’s departure from his position as sporting director

and what went wrong both before and after. The purpose of requesting that time was to conduct an extensive hiring procedure,

which should theoretically improve the likelihood of a more favorable result.

Supporters endured the agonizing chore that was the last few weeks of the season in the hopes of a quick start.

The second is that it erodes fan and club faith even more.

Supporters were informed that Mowbray’s departure was necessary to advance the development of a high-performance culture.

Regarding what has transpired afterward, what has been a strong performance?

Neither the process that culminated in Beale’s appointment nor

the January timeframe that came and went without addressing the team’s

pressing concerns showed any signs of astute succession planning or decision-making.

The campaign’s winning squad was a pale reflection of the regime’s ‘bold,

inventive and hardworking’ guiding principles.

The team’s ascent from League One’s gloom to the Championship semifinals

fostered a sense of confidence in the system and demonstrated that it is a team.

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