10: 9: 19-23: 39: 1.026: Sunderland: 284: 69: 84: 131 ... amongst the country's premier six sides over the past 10 years. Even so, it seems hard to credit precisely how Sunderland are in such a mess after 10 years in the world’s wealthiest league. The squad is, above all, bizarrely constructed — the most problematic byproduct of the price Sunderland have paid for 10 years of narrow escapes: 11 managers. Jan Kirchhoff had arrived in January from Bayern Munich and had made a huge impact. ... once a manager has been here a year you find all their flaws. We have had some dreadful managers at Sunderland over the last 10 years or so and some had to go but some shouldn’t have. Now it’s time for some fun. Pure Football A quick review of the last 10 years or so. In recent history we should still have Jack Ross. But Allardyce, Sunderland’s eighth permanent manager in seven erratic years, had taken a sluggish squad that scraped 12 points from the first half of the 2015-16 season — and looked certainties to go down — and galvanised them into a streamlined team. Sunderland Message Boards. Maybe we could have just backed a few of them a bit more instead of insisting that they're shit and tactically inept or we don't like how they stand on the side of the pitch. We’ve done the hard work, toiling over 10 years of Premier League action to name and rank the division’s 10 best managers this decade. Here are the top 3 best-performing Fidelity Funds over the past 10 years. These Sunderland fans have said they would bring Lee Cattermole back to the club after news that he was released from his contract with VVV Venlo. Sunderland’s seventh manager in six years is expected to step down this summer but before finalising any decision he will meet Ellis Short, the … How the last 10 England managers have left football's most high-profile job Don Revie Failed to qualify for finals of 1976 Euros and bad start to 1978 World Cup after tough qualifying groups.