Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce has warned the bulk of his squad their careers may never hit the same heights if the club are relegated from the Premier League.
REUTERS: Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce has warned the
bulk of his squad their careers may never hit the same heights if the
club are relegated from the Premier League.
Third-from-bottom Sunderland have six games left to avoid
the drop to the Championship (second tier) starting with Saturday's trip
to Norwich City, who sit four points ahead of the Black Cats but having
played a game more.
"Most of the players will never get a better club than this
one... If they moved on, I don't think even Wahbi Khazri, Lamine Kone
and Jan Kirchhoff would step up from Sunderland," Allardyce told British
media.
"I can't see many of the lads getting a better or bigger
club than this one, so their big challenge is to stay in the Premier
League."
Allardyce said it would hurt if he lost his record of never
suffering relegation from the English top-flight but feared the damage
would be worse for the club and squad if they did go down.
"I've had a fantastic career and I would be disappointed to
have that one relegation on my CV. It would hurt, yes, but it's more
important for the club than it is for me," said the former Blackburn
Rovers, Newcastle United, West Ham United and Bolton Wanderers boss.
"It would hurt this club immensely if they got relegated. I think survival is more important for the players than it is for me."
(Reporting by Shravanth Vijayakumar in Bengaluru. Editing by Patrick Johnston)
- Reuters
Black future for Sunderland squad if relegated: Allardyce
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