“Adam will go to the hospital for a scan tonight and then we will know exactly what is wrong”, he told the club’s official website.
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Advocaat said the Black Cats have to realise that they are a side that have to “fight“, which he claimed was their “strength” in the nine matches that he took charge of at the end of last season. All too typically the midfielder, who has been capped 22 times by France, left Russian Federation amid a trail of allegations that a mooted move to Dynamo Moscow this summer had collapsed after he trashed his Moscow apartment following a dispute over rent.
Saturday’s visit of Norwich City follows a week of criticism after their 4-2 thrashing at Leicester, Advocaat insisting the remaining fortnight of the transfer window should offer a truer assessment of what the season has in store.
“He knows we can’t accept that kind of thing”.
“Obviously, it didn’t go to plan for him so he’s got another step in his career to make”.
Sunderland head coach Dick Advocaat has revealed that Adam Johnson is set for a lengthy spell on the sidelines after injuring his shoulder.
But Advocaat said: “I think Carragher has to become a manager himself”.
“If you’re looking for positives, it’s that both strikers scored a goal, but I thought that was no sharpness and the speed of the game was very slow, when the other team had the ball they were much quicker”.
“Today there was aggression in training and the showed they can do it”. But to have a better season than we had in the last couple of years?
Advocaat was certainly at pains to stress that he and his squad feel the pain of a support base which has had little to cheer on the league front in recent seasons. “We still have 14 days”, he said.
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A rare shaft of sunlight on his horizon was the news that Adam Johnson’s shoulder injury is not as serious as first envisaged and will not require surgery.
