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Gus Poyet appointed Sunderland manager on three-year contract

By on October 7, 2013
Gus Poyet taken over the vacant manager's seat at Sunderland, and could be officially announced as soon as Tuesday

Gus Poyet taken over the vacant manager’s seat at Sunderland, and could be officially announced as soon as Tuesday

Gus Poyet has been appointed Sunderland manager on a three-year contract and tasked with the job of leading the club to survival.    The former Brighton manager has been selected to take up the unwanted post two weeks after Paolo Di Canio was sacked, and has been awarded the task of taking the club out of the relegation zone by owner Ellis Short.

This will prove a substantial ask, as Sunderland currently sit rock bottom of the Premier League on only one point.  A positive for Poyet, who was sacked by Brighton last spring following a bust-up with the club, is that the club have actually not played bad football since Di Canio was fired, and despite a 3-1 loss to Arsenal the side played an excellent match, and were leading against English champions Manchester United at the half, only to lose 2-1.

But, whatever the circumstance, Poyet will be glad to be back in management after telling Telegraph Sport he was ready to come out of unemployment.  “I am free and available and I want to be back in work as soon as possible,” the 45-year-old said last over the summer.

Poyet had also previously claimed to be monitoring the Sunderland position and was ready to pounce on a potential job offer: “I planned that over the first matches of this season I would pay a lot of attention to the teams I thought could be in trouble. Of course I watch Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester but there was a group of teams who, if they didn’t start well, I thought I could have a chance. I was watching Sunderland a lot. People were talking a lot about them in the summer because of Paolo and how many new players they had. So I’ve seen quite a lot of them.”

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