Sunderland are set to make an official approach to the Northern Irish FA for Michael O'Neill. Choice between Scotland and Sunderland beckons.
Their 'breaking news' strap says the Scottish FA have already made a formal approach for his services.
Yep it does. Once it changes from 'set' to 'officially', Sunderland will also be on that bottom strap.
If I was O'Neill I would be looking for option C Might be a job going at Barnsley soon - according to an Echo Journalist and
No idea it works fine for me when others post tweets this way Twitter isn't blocked where you are is it - if you are at work thats quite possible The important text was SAFC make Paul Heckingbottom their number one managerial choice - and are ready to offer Barnsley boss more than four times his current wage to take over at Stadium of Light...
I see the story has swapped from eight times to four times his salary. Has he got half as good in the last 24 hrs or is everything in the media guesswork and speculation?
The only reason anyone would go to Sunderland now would be for the money. Grayson got four months. Sunderland will take 3 years to turn round. Sunderland won't give anyone anywhere near that amount of time. O'Neill, Heckingbottom and anyone else more interested in doing a good job than in pocketing millions for a few months work would be advised to wait until a better club comes in for them.
The Echo understands from sources north of the border that the SFA are confident of getting their man. The belief is that while Sunderland are interested, the main fear from officials at the governing body is that O'Neill could be swayed the USA national job.
It does say "more than" so it could still be 8 No idea where these stories come from - I cant imagine Short telling Journalists the salary he is offering a potential employee before he has even signed, not to mention none of them know what he is on at Barnsley its all guesswork
Please can we match the wages if true? How much must that man be worth to us? Player development, attracting talented signings and loan players, strategy in beating teams with much more depth and quality, and most importantly maybe: the cultural and social link with fans that helps us feel good and keeps us together when things aren't immediately successful. How much is all that worth?
we can't compete with sunderland financially. whatever we were able to offer him, they could smash it.
He has family over there and supposedly is a fan of the US way of life. I'm guessing he enjoys shooting black folk.
Hahaha I never knew that but fair. Out of everything he's been touted for, I'd be staying at Northern Ireland until something really good comes up.
It may not even be a case of matching what Sunderland can offer, we may only need to make an attractive offer to him. A good pay rise along side the bits we can provide that Sunderland can't might just tip the balance in our favour. That is if he's even offered the job of course.
That's what I've been thinking. Most of their fans reckon that 750k is pie in the sky anyway, and that Grayson was "only" on 400k. If they offer Hecky say 500k, I'm pretty sure if we upped his salary to 350-400k, putting him in line with our best paid player, he'd take it. Not exactly going to be worrying about money on that salary, plus Sunderland right now is probably one of the least attractive jobs in the country once you look past the salary. I guess the stumbling block as mentioned a few times on here is the unresolved takeover, but I would guess that financially we can reasonably compete on this one.
