The London Evening Standard used this headline to express Sunderland this season.
"Sunderland fired Peter Reed this season and invited Chinese coach Su Yun, who shined in the cup last season. And judging from the current actions, Sunderland Club spared no effort to support Coach Su.
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"After Coach Su entered Sunderland, he has already invested six million pounds and bought ten players this summer."
"In addition to the two players he brought from Dagenham, he searched extensively in League Two and League One. The most surprising one was the purchase of Blackburn Rovers' substitute for £1.6 million.
Goalkeeper Shay Given, Manchester United's Karel Bobosky for £2 million."
"Sunderland was originally a strong team in English League One. Although they were relegated from the Premier League last season, they are still a strong team in English League One. But Coach Su has added so many players. I don't know if it is right.
Yes, it’s still wrong.”
The "London Evening Standard" only introduced Sunderland's transfer situation. There was no subjective comment.
But other newspapers are different.
"News of the World" directly accused Su Yun of destroying Sunderland.
"When entering a new team, unless the team has reached the point where it must be replaced, any new coach must first integrate into the team and then slowly transform the team. But football coaches from China
But we are going to sign a lot of money at Sunderland."
"Sunderland's original strength is already the best in English League One. It only needs some repairs to make it easy to return to the Premier League. But now I don't have any hope for Sunderland's promotion. Because they invited a
A coach who doesn’t understand the laws of football.”
After Sunderland's transfer move, many media were not optimistic about Sunderland's future.
Of course, more of the media are just following the trend.
Now is the summer transfer period, and there is plenty to report. If Sunderland hadn't gone on a shopping spree and bought Boboski, they wouldn't have received such widespread attention.
Even Sunderland's local "Echo" expressed doubts.
They all believe that Sunderland is very strong now and there is no need to buy players on such a large scale.
But none of these could affect Su Yun's determination. After introducing Boboski, Su Yun announced the closure of the transfer market.
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Goalkeepers: No. 1 Shay Given (21 years old), No. 27 Andy Mims (29 years old), No. 33 Carl Antonio (19 years old).
Defenders: No. 4 Andy Melville (28 years old), No. 3 Michael Gray (23 years old), No. 17 Jody Craddock (22 years old), No. 2 Danny Mills (20 years old),
No. 5 Lucas Neal (19 years old), No. 16 Darren Williams (20 years old), No. 19 George McCartney (21 years old), No. 35 Sean Hart (21 years old).
Midfielder: No. 8 Jack Williams (20 years old), No. 6 Robbie Savage (22 years old), No. 7 Karel Boboski (25 years old), No. 21 Lee Clark (24 years old)
24 years old), No. 24 Alan Johnston (24 years old), No. 44 Thomas Butler (17 years old), No. 42 Paul Thirlwell (20 years old), No. 31 Michael Protok (23 years old)
), No. 11 Kevin Kilbani (20 years old), No. 12 Craig Bellamy (18 years old).
Forwards: No. 29 Neil Quinn (30 years old), No. 10 Kevin Phillips (24 years old), No. 9 Michael Bridges (19 years old), No. 39 Kevin Kyle (18 years old)
, No. 18 John Mullin (22 years old).
This is the current Sunderland first team roster, with a total of twenty-six players.
Speaking of which, in English League One, it is common for first-team players to reach thirty. This is because English League One has many events in a season. There are currently twenty-four teams in English League One, and there are forty in the league alone.
Six games.
If you play well in the League Cup and FA Cup, it will be easy to play more than 50 games in a season.
Therefore substitute players are very important.
But Su Yun is quite satisfied with the current Sunderland lineup.
There are still twenty days until the English League One season starts.
Su Yun wants to get the team running in as quickly as possible. Although Su Yun bought a lot of players in summer transfers, and most of them are directly for the main lineup. But Su Yun definitely does not want to be an emperor and a courtier.
practice.
And Su Yun understands what the media says better than they do.
Su Yun has been struggling in football for more than ten years. The sequelae of the sudden change in the team's lineup are more understood than those so-called reporters. But Su Yun is not affected by the media at all.
Mainly because Sunderland has a central point, that's why Su Yun dared to do this.
The first is Sunderland's defense, which has a decisive factor. Andy Melville has been playing in England's lower leagues for many years. He has been a main player in England's fourth-tier league since he was seventeen. When he was twenty,
He became a main player in the third-level league, and when he was 22 years old, he entered the second-level league.
He has been in the second tier for the next six years, and only played in the Premier League last season.
He is extremely experienced. The 28-year-old is already in his fifth year at Sunderland, and his performance in the backcourt is very good. He has accurate positioning and good headers. He is Su Yun's favorite central defender in Sunderland.
With him and left-back Michael Gray, there is no problem with Sunderland's defense changing slightly.
And there is Quinn among the forward line.
Anyway, Sunderland's style of play has always relied on Quinn. Su Yun has no intention of changing, just more changes. With Quinn in front and Andy Melville in the back,
Other locations are much easier to handle.
Su Yun's transformation started in the warm-up match.
In the backcourt, Su Yun arranged for Andy Melville and Lucas Neal to partner, with Danny Mills at right back and Michael Gray at left back.
In the midfield, Su Yun abandoned all the original Sunderland midfielders.
Su Yun didn't like either Alan Johnston or Paul Thirlwell. Su Yun used Williams and Robbie Savage in the middle of the midfield, and there was no doubt that he used Williams on the right.
Received Karel Boboski and selected Kevin Kilbani on the left.
This is definitely not because Kevin Kilbani is his direct lineage player. It is because Kevin Kilbani is fast and hard-working. The most important thing is that the quality of his crosses is good.
The forward selection was Quinn and Kevin Phillips.
Su Yun now admires Peter Reed's vision very much. Su Yun bought Kevin Phillips just to increase the thickness of the team's forward line, but it was only after buying Kevin Phillips that Su Yun discovered that Kevin Phillips was born
The forbidden area killer.
Quinn and I are a perfect match.
The two seem to have worked together for many years on the forward line, and they have an extremely tacit understanding on the court.
This made Su Yun very happy.
The biggest problem now is the transformation of the midfield.
