-How nice is that beach, though, isn't it? -Yeah, beautiful.
Not half as nice as this bacon sandwich you're buying.
-Thirty years. -Yeah, long time.
-Wales Under-17s, it was, first time we... -We were unbeaten.
Here we go. He always tells this story. He don't exaggerate the story by the way.
The lump turns up. We lost 4-1 to Northern Ireland.
I was a year younger, honestly.
-Morning. -Morning.
How are you?
-Okay, you? -Good, thanks.
Different managers like different things.
So, when you come into a new job, obviously, you're trying to get over...
your ideas and how you think things should be done.
You make the same run. You close that down.
Do it. You stay where you are.
That doesn't happen overnight.
There we are.
But, again, we've been here two months.
It's not long really.
Close it down.
We were so lucky with Wales.
Yeah.
We didn't have one bad egg in the group.
Staff, fantastic.
That's quite rare to have that.
That's it.
If you've got bad attitudes in there, generally, they don't change.
-It's not worth doing. -You've gotta get them out.
We've also seen some good things as well.
Definitely things that we can work on, and work with, and progress at.
Some really good characters in there as well, you know?
Got a real chance. I believe that.
I think with what we've got, a nucleus... We need to add to it, and grow it.
There's an opportunity. It's not an opportunity if you don't take it.
The problem with opportunity is they're always hard work.
That's why a lot of people don't take them.
Go on in, son!
Great header.
Finally, Sunderland got a manager
that everybody feels is the right man for the job.
He exudes real passion and likes a challenge clearly.
He's one of those who will not throw in the towel.
-The net went like that. -I didn't touch the net. You know it.
He actually makes you believe he can turn it around.
He makes you believe that this club can be big again.
When you've got hold of someone like that, you wanna keep holding them.
That's the big fella... Smash him!
Yeah! That's good stuff.
He looks like he just got off a catwalk.
You look like you've been in a sauna for hours.
We want the place to be jumping, that's what we're aiming for.
-Hi, babe. -Hi. Happy New Year.
-How are you? -I'm all right.
We're gonna get three point.
I told the gaffer that on Saturday and yesterday.
How you doing? All right? Happy New Year to you too.
2017 was a very difficult year.
But we all want 2018 to be a whole lot better.
So, hopefully, it will be.
Okay. Three pounds, darling. Thank you.
Hey.
-How are you? -I'm fine.
-You all right then? -Yeah, fine, 100%.
New Year.
It's a good atmosphere. Yeah, much better.
Nice to see a smile on all the lads' faces.
Hopefully, now, it can be a snowball effect.
I think we've really got to get a win at home as well.
I think that's really important.
Well, there's a bit of a buzz about the place, now, innit?
The doom and gloom seems to be lifted.
-What do you reckon? 2-1? -2-1.
2-1, Sunderland.
Any, fiver each, mate. Any one you want.
All in honor of a style of management that'll bring this club forward.
Happy New Year. Welcome to the first game of 2018
here at the Stadium of Light.
I hope everyone is without hangovers
And the team, too, can they move on from a dismal 2017?
When a new manager comes in, it gives everyone a fresh start really.
He put me straight in,
and he stuck with me, basically, from the start.
So... it was very good for me personally, him coming.
It'd certainly be a massive three points with the way the table is now.
Win the game today, see some daylight for the first time in how long
between themselves and the bottom three.
The referee gets the game underway.
You're looking at Darron Gibson now.
All of a sudden, he's been able to get around the field.
His passing has been excellent. He's gotta do that week in, week out.
Go on, Sunderland!
They're starting to come to life a bit, Sunderland.
Gibson is down at the edge of the center circle.
I think it's curtains for Gibson.
I have to say he's been one of their better players.
Sunderland started by dominating the game.
but without Gibson, they're a completely different team,
and it's Barnsley who now look most threatening.
The ball is swept in here, and it's headed in!
Nobody picked him up and it was a simple header.
Sunderland's defense went to sleep.
Use your head!
This is the last roll of the dice for Sunderland.
Can they get anything from this crucial match?
No.
Barnsley win by a goal to nil...
...and Sunderland drop back into the bottom three of the Championship.
That was a poor performance, wasn't it?
No ideas.
The team we have now...
You've got McGeady. You've got Oviedo. You've got a lot of good players.
We should do way better than we're doing now.
We need a stronger team.
We need to get back in the Premier League where we belong.
Not a great way to start a new year.
I'm just bitterly disappointed with the result and the performance.
Even worse than losing the points is
now, it looks like we'll lose Darron Gibson
for eight weeks, 10 weeks possibly with his groin.
That's a worrying thing for us.
We've gotta fatten the squad up in numbers,
and we've gotta add a bit of quality.
I've torn my adductor tendon off the bone.
They basically had to go in and reattach it with two screws.
I went to switch one of the passes and just felt a pop.
Just literally felt like I'd been shot.
I thought I was just getting into my stride,
and I thought I was starting to play really well.
It's frustrating that it happened when it did.
Come on, boys. Let's go!
This January is massive for the football club. It really is.
If the targets that we've identified can come in...
it'll give us a massive boost. If not, it'll be difficult.
We need to make sure that this window works for us.
We need to make sure that players that don't want to be here are gone,
and we bring in players that do, and want to work hard, and keep us up.
Yeah, come on, Sunderland. Get somebody signed.
No, I mean, it's not even funny.
It'll not be funny if we don't sign no one.
Now, put your paw up, eh. Say Haway the lads.
Over Christmas and New Year, things have improved lots.
We were looking at keeping a clean sheet,
and the team seemed to be pulling together,
but we were still not scoring enough.
Grabban's the only one who's getting us any goals.
We can't rely on just him. To get out of the relegation zone,
we really need to get another striker to help us out.
-Bye, see you lot. -See you later then.
I'll see you whenever.
You leaving?
I'll see you Monday.
You gonna turn up Monday?
If I'm here on Monday, I'll be here forever.
I'll be buzzing if you walk in, mate.
See you later, mate. See you Monday, mate.
See you Monday, mate.
-Yeah, see you Monday. -See you Monday, mate.
A blow for Sunderland. Their top scorer, Lewis Grabban,
has been recalled from his loan spell by Bournemouth,
because the player wanted to leave the Stadium of Light.
Grabban has 12 goals for the Championship's bottom side.
Bournemouth plan to sell him during the window.
Wolves are believed to be interested.
Lewis was scoring a lot of goals for the team.
So, you don't wanna lose a player that scores goals, naturally,
but he didn't wanna be here.
Sometimes, you get people who have a mentality of they deserve it.
They deserve good things.
They're entitled to it, which they most certainly aren't.
'Cause we can't carry players in 90 minutes.
Everybody sees the finished article on Saturday afternoon in 90 minutes.
It's every day in training building up to that.
What's your body language? How's your mentality?
Good defending! Let's play purple!
He didn't wanna be here, so he had a conversation with Martin,
and that was that. He went back to Bournemouth.
The main reason is that I got called back.
I would have stayed if I needed to stay.
Because I didn't dislike playing at Sunderland at all.
But little things did start to make me question
how the second half of the season was gonna go.
If you haven't really spoken to a new manager when he comes in...
or if you start getting taken off.
I was starting to get whipped off on 65 and 70 minutes,
and I was thinking,
"I'm not sure that's for me."
Maybe it's a bit selfish, but I just thought, "No."
Grabban has scored 11 goals this season, three penalties.
Then you look down the rest of the team.
McGeady has got four.
Honeyman has got three in the Championship.
Below that, you're looking at ones and twos.
So, yeah, there is an emphasis on Grabban scoring the goals.
The other problem is that when you've got loan players,
their heart and soul, eventually, is not necessarily wholly in the club.
If you don't wanna be here, yeah, fair enough. Go.
But there's a time when you can go and a time when you cannot go.
And unfortunately, we haven't got players in numbers...
for to let them go, really.
Good. There you go.
Good. Check it on, Bali. Shoot! First time!
Losing two strikers and not having a replacement is worrying.
Run through, Bali! Run!
There's no question.
One of the biggest problems Sunderland will face
if they're gonna stay up is scoring goals.
I just don't see how a football club, in any division, in any league can survive
without a striker.
Fuck's sake, Bry!
Grabs scored so many goals for us.
It's disappointing for us that he's left, because he was our top goal-scorer.
Obviously, Vaughan's gone as well, so I think we need a couple strikers in.
We're left with Joel, Maja, two decent players,
but untested and inexperienced at this level.
Morning.
It was forecast, but I didn't think we'd get this much in an hour.
Nigh on an inch. My god!
I was only out there 40 minutes ago, and it was perfect.
I've gone down there now with a ball, and it's starting to drag a little bit.
So it's just a case of what the management want to do.
Believe me, there's nothing I hate more than snow. I absolutely detest it.
It's frustrating. I know they wanna get out there to train,
but to shift that amount of snow, in that amount of time,
it just isn't gonna happen.
At least it's nice for the kids, isn't it?
I'm getting bombarded.
We're gonna blast the first team.
Tex is locking that door,
and we're gonna hit them all.
Any chance at opening the door?
Embarrassing. Gimps. Little girls. Embarrassing.
What a club is all about, innit?
A little togetherness, a bit of harmony...
a bit of unity.
That's what it's all about.
Everybody chipping in, getting the pitch ready, get a session on.
Get three points, and we're looking rosy again.
I'm sick of saying that. "Three points against this team."
I wanna stop saying it. Then we might get three.
Just a normal day training!
Big fella, what's happening?
They're desperate to get on grass to train that's what it is. So you can see
we've got the team helping out to get training on.
Have a nice workout? What's the matter? They keep snowballing you?
This is brilliant. Fair play to everybody. Fantastic.
It's pointless clearing the training ground's pitch.
It'll come down again. We've got some shelter here
'cause of the way the pitch is and the way the stadium is built.
This is the last snow for lunchtime. We can get on here at lunchtime.
We needed to get on grass, didn't we? So, everyone has pulled together.
Collective team spirit, which is what you need.
The stakes for this transfer window keep getting bigger.
We're not in a promotion battle. We're in a survival battle.
Unlike previous transfer windows of the past...
where maybe the club bought themselves out of trouble,
the only option we have in this window is to loan players from other teams.
Seen who's on the wishlist?
Chris Martin, yeah?
Who's that?
Striker from Derby.
That'll be good. We could really use him.
He's good at holding the ball up.
No, no, he is. I'm being serious.
I know you are. I know you are.
But I can't help but think you're taking the piss.
I'm like, "Is he fucking taking the piss?"
Firstly, talking about loan signings, are you any further down the road?
Yeah, we are.
We're quite far down the line with a player, an A club.
Hoping.
We'll have to wait and see,
but it'll be nice to have a fresh face in to help the lads out
and give us a bit of a boost.
Would the first one, in a sense, be a catalyst as well,
a signal to other clubs players are prepared to come here?
Yep, I think it's fair to say that.
In an ideal world, I would like to have somebody in place for our next game,
and I know time is not on our side.
Hi, Alex.
-How are you? -Good. You?
-Not bad. Thank you. -Good.
What's happening? Yeah?
I think he would like the weekend to discuss it with his family...
before coming up. He doesn't want to...
If he's gonna come up, he wants to come, and that be that.
-Do you know what I mean? -Yeah.
He's spoke with Chris.
He doesn't need to see the training ground or the stadium.
That's not him being flippant or blasé with that.
He's 29 years of age.
He just needs to discuss it with the family.
If he comes up, he wants to come with every intention of signing,
rather than coming up, leaving, then thinking about it.
You know what I mean? Doing it that way round?
No problem. I take it he's still keen to come.
He is. He just needs to get his head around it all.
Just give us the weekend if you don't mind, please.
Right, okay.
All right, thanks very much. Cheers, Alex. See you.
-Bye bye. -Take care.
Bloody hell!
You work all day, all night.
You got a medical lined up for this evening.
Think the player is coming.
This is what I'm up against at the moment. When you are where you are in the league,
honestly, trying to get players is just horrendous.
Now, you're sitting and waiting to see
whether you have a striker who wants to come or not.
And if he says no over the weekend, you're back to square one again,
having spent three or four days negotiating back and forth.
And it's all about two things.
It's about where the club is at, and its position in the Championship,
and fundamentally where people think we might end up,
and it's about having no money.
And all that does is the fact that we'll get no striker for tomorrow's game.
Obviously, he's not gonna be signed in time for tomorrow's game.
I spoke to Martin Bain earlier on the way in.
I said, "Have you got anyone lined up?"
Because of the position we are in, players don't really want to come up here.
And if they are, they cost too much money.
Fucking hell!
This is where we are at the moment, a position where it is sticking plasters.
It's what you can cobble together on a Saturday afternoon.
What 11 can you put out?
What goalkeeper is confident at the moment?
Which defender is fit?
Which midfielders actually can do a job here?
Which midfielder is gonna give us some consistency?
Who's gonna play out front and score goals?
There's a myriad number of problems.
Sunderland offloaded two strikers since the transfer window opened,
leading scorer, Lewis Grabban, who's hit 12 this season,
and James Vaughan, who left for Wigan.
Nineteen-year-old, Josh Maja, leads the line
with a big responsibility on his shoulders.
Sunderland have hit trouble and need to react
before a bump in the road becomes a sink hole.
Hopefully, we see a better performance. The issue is we're not attacking.
We're still struggling in a lot of key positions.
Ultimately, I just wanna see
a team that looks to go out there and win for Sunderland.
From Chris Coleman's point of view, he's looked at this football club.
It's a huge football club. If he can steady the ship,
come the summer, he can build on it from there.
Because his reputation is sky-high.
We're underway. And immediately, a break down the right-hand side.
Get on with it!
Ought to be a foul!
We're in the last run of the season. We're in the bottom three.
We're up against a team who are in the bottom three with us.
We decide to go missing for an hour. I'm pretty angry about that.
What we needed to do was make sure we defended our own little patch,
which we didn't.
Then to make that worse, the third goal was even worse.
A huge disappointment and worrying as well.
-Fucking shit, mate! -Fucking shit!
-Horrendous! -Fucking shit!
Shite!
-Fucking shit! -Embarrassing!
It was shit!
We need to start scoring goals and get a team in.
The owner needs to put money in the club.
If they don't get money in the club, we're not gonna get nowt.
That's all I'm gonna say. That's it.
Over 1,000 Sunderland supports went to Birmingham last night.
Do the club realize what's going on here,
what it means to the people in Sunderland?
Or do they think we just couldn't care less?
'Cause we do care about the players.
That's why we turn up every week, week in, week out.
And it upsets people. Spoils your weekend.
I very rarely read the Sunday paper.
There wasn't even a match report in the Daily Mail on Monday.
Not a line! Tory bastards!
Crying out for a goalkeeper.
Absolutely crying out for a goalkeeper, a couple of strikers.
However, we've got a multi-billionaire owner who isn't interested.
This is a massive problem.
We've got a top-quality coach in Chris Coleman.
And you bring him in, and you don't back him?
It's criminal, man.
Ellis Short has come here, taken a mid-table Premier League club,
and we're practically in League 1 now.
I'm realistic enough to know
that the club needs investment in the squad.
And ultimately, football these days is about money.
Does the club need money at the moment to get out of the bottom three?
Yeah, it does.
-Afternoon. -Good afternoon.
Financially, we are where we are.
We're in hard times now.
Little bit of adversity,
but still a part of the big club.
The problem is when you're at a big club, and it's going wrong,
it can be a lot tougher.
The culture of the club has been owner-funded for a number of years.
The culture of the club has to change dramatically,
because there is no longer an owner that wishes to fund.
Now, the strategy for Sunderland going forward is
it has to be self-reliant, or self-sustainable,
and that is a massive sea change...
for any football club, let alone this one.
Am I sitting here, moaning about it? No.
Does it make life very difficult? Yeah.
Is it sleepless nights? Is it your head's on the pillow,
and all you're thinking about is who's playing right back?
Yeah, 100 percent.
Ultimately, things can't really get any worse,
and we know that we have to improve that squad.
How do you do that with having no budget to work with?
It's not gonna be easy.
I'd really like you to film this, right,
and tell Ellis Short to fuck off.
Are you watching, Ellis Short?
You are killing our club!
Fuck you!
Chris Coleman needs backing.
We can't go on the way we are.
Put this in. Ellis Short, fuck off!
Wise Men Say, all things Sunderland.
Ellis Short has lost interest. We can all see that.
Chris Coleman won't get any more money.
Part of that is 'cause there's still so much money tied up in the wage bill.
I wanna talk about Jack Rodwell straight away.
When somebody's earning £12 million in a few years...
If he was to leave now, we could use his wages
to bring in maybe four players on free transfers.
When a club and people's livelihoods are in danger,
at what point can he say, "Let's call it a day."
-Get rid of him? -This shows the modern football's madness.
A player like Jack, earning millions,
doesn't seem to have any incentive to even get out there on the grass.
Yet he still picks up his wages week in and week out.
Do the players realize what all this is about?
Do they honestly care about their supporters?
Jack Rodwell, in a way, is all that's wrong with football.
It's not necessarily Jack Rodwell's fault.
When Sunderland were in the Premier League,
signed him from Manchester City. Agreed to a five-year deal.
You won't turn down the offer of a five-year contract at £60,000 a week.
When the team was relegated, he was the one player
who didn't have the clause in his contract which meant he took a pay cut.
Three caps for England. He's gone to Sunderland.
The appearances have just declined,
and he's done an article today saying he wants to play football.
He's got 18 months left,
but there's talk of the club wanting to terminate his contract.
I've had a chat with Jack, and I've said to Jack,
"Be a man. You're 26 years of age. Go and kick-start your career.
Tell me it's about playing football or money. Which is it?"
Jack said it's about playing football. But look around you.
Look at the state the club is in. Maybe go play football somewhere else.
I wasn't going to ask you about Jack Rodwell today,
because you've spoken about him in the past.
Then we see the interview he did this week with quotes that raised eyebrows,
talking about his ambitions, wanting to play in the Premier League,
get back on the England squad, et cetera.
There was a certain body of opinion that thought,
"If you have that attitude, and you say you're as fit as you've ever been,
why not try and show it on the pitch and try and get into the Sunderland team?
That's the best way to kick-start your career again."
Well, yeah, I don't know what to add to that,
because that's my opinion, exactly that.
As of yet, he hasn't got another club. He's still here.
So, we have to wait and see.
I thought you were going to be playing at the weekend.
No chance, mate.
Radio for the North East.
It's transfer deadline day. So, it's finally arrived.
We'll keep you across all the deals of the day.
Today is gonna be a long day.
This is the final date that football clubs can sign players
or let players leave the club, go on their own type of thing.
And you've got until eleven o'clock tonight, the cutoff point.
And although eleven o'clock seems like a long time tonight,
when you've got negotiations, getting the paperwork right,
that time can go like that when it's a bit of a scramble.
We need two attackers, attacker, midfielder,
wide attacker, striker, possibly two strikers.
There's a big list of players that the club already had tracking,
but also, we've come in with our own ideas.
They've got to be the right personality and characters.
That's hugely important to the way that Chris works,
and we work together.
We're on the verge of...
We've agreed everything to sign a midfielder from Liverpool.
He'll help us score more goals.
We're just waiting on that phone call for that to drop.
And if it does, it'll be a positive signing for us.
I just hope that it falls into place.
This moment in time, I think this is the toughest job in British football.
This has been a frustrating January for us, and the situation we're in
with regards to having to look at loan players,
and being reliant on one or two players going out the door
to generate some cash.
It's a difficult set of circumstances we're working with.
We've not generated that cash.
Still cannot get rid of Rodwell.
He's literally robbing us blind.
-He's just in his office. -His office?
To be honest, he's pathetic.
Honestly, he's just sitting on his backside, doing nothing,
getting... What is it? Seventy thousand in a week?
You know, give the club a break, man.
He knows what financial difficulties we're in.
If he was to move on today and rip up his contract,
he can obviously sign for anybody, after the deadline as a free agent.
He's got a big decision to make. It's a big decision for the football club.
I hope he doesn't just consider his own interests,
and I hope he puts Sunderland Football Club up there
in his decision making as well.
It's a bit personal, isn't it?
Time is running out for clubs to make any last-minute buys.
It's deadline day.
Because Jack Rodwell hasn't made a decision about his future yet,
we have to get rid of a few players
to allow us to bring in ones we urgently need.
Didier is gone. He's joined Watford on loan until the end of the season.
So, good player. Good luck to him as well.
You take care, all right? All the best with the baby.
Well, Lee Camp from Cardiff, goalkeeper.
We needed a certain type of character, we felt,
and Lee ticked the boxes.
He'll be here tomorrow, Lee.
To bring a keeper in who we've heard of is half-decent. It's a bonus.
Ovie Ejaria, he's a midfielder from Liverpool.
It'll only be a loan deal for the rest of the season.
They call him the English Pogba.
Brilliant!
And that man, Lewis Grabban,
it wouldn't be a deadline day without talk about him.
He's now joining his 11th club as a professional.
He's signed for Aston Villa, on loan, for the rest of the season.
He's gonna challenge you for the title of Mr. Deadline Day. Jim?
Top man.
I'm gonna end up in tears.
If we don't get a good striker, I will be sobbing my heart out.
The last minute, we'll get a striker.
If we get that Ashley Fletcher, I'll be over the moon then.
Nice to meet you.
I know Ash from West Ham. Really good lad.
Got so much praise in terms of what he's like as a character.
Anyone you ever come across in football know
people who have come through the ranks at Man United are just good people.
Come on in.
-How you doing? -Ashley, I'm Martin. How are you?
-Nice to see you. -Nice to meet you.
Big man. How are you, son? You're good?
How are you? You all right?
Thank you.
-Well done. -Thank you very much.
Ashley Fletcher. That's made my night anyway.
New player!
I'm delighted we got this boy.
Good age, 22.
Learning experience for him.
I think it's a great day, really good day.
Turned out to not be a really good window,
because that's five now.
Players we've got out and players we've got in.
It's not cost us anything, 'cause obviously, the wages...
Financially, it's been good for us, and definitely improved the environment,
because these boys are coming because they wanna come here.
And obviously, the ones going the other way,
the majority don't wanna be here.
The numbers are coming with moi.
Just busy making sure there's nothing being left behind.
It's kind of like grave jumping, really.
Somebody leaves, and then you're putting a name up straight away.
But that's how it goes.
See you guys.
Now, it's done. Thank god it's done. Christ!
Fuck me.
Fuck!
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