“When you have the pace in the side that we have we are so unsafe, we have pace and quality that is backed up by Christian [Benteke] being up top he becomes a point for us to hit and with him being at top clubs we know what he brings to our side”.
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“We know what we’re about”. We’ve been there before and we’ll have the same outcome again.
Asked if he felt the achievements of the last few past seasons bought Hughes some time with Stoke chairman Peter Coates and with the club’s fans, Bowen said: “You’d hope so”.
“It’s hard to understand why we are losing and confidence throughout the team is not great”. You’d like to think or hope we’ve earned some credit with them.
Sunderland have had a shocking start to the season and they will know that they have to turn things around if they want to stay up at the end of the season.
Quoted by The Sentinel, the chairman said: “He’s our manager and he’s got our support”. In the last three years we have had three top-10 finishes, and numerous players are still the same. He’s been around the block. “It was not a nice dressing room to be in when you’ve let in four and he has told us in no uncertain terms that it is not on”. It is disappointing. We have got to look at ourselves. It’s been like that since the start of the season. This team made some great transfers during the summer window and I think this team can only get better from here.
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“We need to get some wins on the board and aim for the magic 40 points and go from there”.
