Since Martin O’Neil’s sacking in 2013 Sunderland have been in a consistent rut and one of the main reasons for this has been some very poor transfers.
Sunderland have brought in a lot of players over the last three seasons as Paulo Di Canio, Gus Poyet and Dick Advocaat tried to push on from saving Sunderland from the drop. This never happened, instead, the vicious cycle continued with these players not proving good enough.
As the club looks to be finally stepping in the right direction with a proven manager who seems to actually know what he is doing we can only hope that Big Sam learns from the mistakes of his predecessors and finally brings in the standard of player to finally stop this relegation rut which we are expected of every year.
The odds using a Betfair promo code suggest he will manage it too. His track record speaks very much for itself.
The best place to start for Allardyce would be to avoid signing players like these ten:
