Summary
REVOLUTION, once again, is in the air on Wearside. For the third successive summer Steve Bruce has overseen a major overhaul of his squad but this time, more than any, he needs to have got it right.
Major changes were to expected when Bruce inherited the bloated, unbalanced Ricky Sbragia squad that clung to Premier League life by their fingernails in 2009 and a second stage of that development was to be expected some twelve months later.See the full content of this document
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Mark Douglas
But this summer's nine-man recruitment drive was an unforeseen development - pushed partly by Darren Bent's shock January departure and the dispiriting slump that left Sunderland looking far too short in certain key areas.
As even Bruce admits, it wasn't supposed to come to this but his hand was somewhat forced by some m...See the full content of this document
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