Can we trust Sunderland’s process in the search for a new head coach?

The absence of wise leaders in the locker room to mentor the young players and assist Mike Dodds and his staff in getting them focused on the game rather than the off-field issues has also evidently affected performances.

Dodds is now the head coach and, as such, the boss, even if he was an integral part of Sunderland’s coaching staffs in the past. Despite his desire to be one, he is not the players’ confidante nor are they his friends.

But even if Michael Beale was rapidly reduced to a square peg in a round hole by Kristjaan Speakman and Kyril Louis-Dreyfus, it’s unclear how much time and effort has been invested in the process.
Similar to Tony Mowbray’s departure, Lee Johnson left the team without the club having a clear replacement in place. It appears that weeks were spent finding and enticing Beale to Wearside.

We are aware that there are stringent guidelines when it comes to contacting managers, but the football world moves constantly, and I have no doubt that Speakman knows who to contact to find out whether a prospective new head coach would be interested in the Stadium of Light position.

The club administration has consistently told us that they take a “data-led approach” to all of their decisions and that they can access, evaluate, understand, and ideally trust the data they use.

Considering that the data did not support the appointment We have to hope that, with the January window now gone, all attention has been directed toward identifying the likely candidates to become our head coach at the end of the season. Of Beale, that trust may be ebbing a little.
Finding the proper coach is a top priority, despite the club’s all too clear passion of unearthing a young, promising investment.

How can we try to find players who we can recruit for the upcoming season until we find out who will be the team’s coach? It hurts to say, but even if it’s extremely unlikely, the door to relegation isn’t completely closed just yet.

The new head coach is probably going to be one of the most significant, as I mentioned earlier.

if not the most significant appointment in the previous half-century.

We need a player who can lead Sunderland into the Premier League and stick there—which is a tougher assignment than it has ever been, as we’ve seen with Burnley, Sheffield United, and Luton this season.

In addition to gaining the players’ respect, the new head coach will also need to have the tactical acumen to bring out the best in the team and the managerial skills to lead from below.
Although it’s evident that the hiring process is set, they’ll still need to be able to persuade Speakman and Dreyfus that the model can and ought to be improved.

The query is When it comes to selecting the next full-time employee, will the hiring committee and the selection procedure that led to Beale’s appointment provide the kind of motivating choice the team needs?

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