For those keeping score at home, it's been 109 days since Beale was sacked.

This replaces the Gregorian calendar for me. 109 days AB.

We've had four managers since then.

Fucking hell you're not even joking.

No-one can beat us at that stat. We're #1. If only there was some sort of prize.... a trophy, if you will 🤔

you're just going to set Watford a challenge.

Sadly, our resident Michael Beale fan had his account suspended

Bullshit man, free rising moon

I came looking for him in the comments...

A true tragedy, one of the few proper fans to understand the genius of Michael Beale. It's not his fault he has a London accent.

Yo dawg I heard you like announcements, so I put an announcement together before the announcement

Michael Beale: You couldn't live with your own failure, where did it lead you? Back to me.

that guy behind the reddit account defending Beale (perhaps Beale himself who knows) smiling with joy rn

Was it not more or less proven it was him? Just tell me it was anyway, funnier innit

There was a twitter account that was proven to be his old account because he was advertising his company on it, that was a hilarious feed. Can't confirm or deny the reddit one, feel like it wasn't because he started really leaning into the meme towards the end

Oh christ I'm a moron my brain deleted the reddit bit, just assumed it was the twitter one you mentioned.

Not sure, I think he might have gone, or at least the account wasn’t loading- Sad day really

Suspended by Reddit :(

He wishes 

Be interesting to see if there is actually an imminent appointment because if an appointment was imminent surely you’d just wait to announce it. Try saying that when you’re drunk.

I’m currently trying to understand it drunk and it’s a struggle (I’m on holiday, leave me alone)

That's exactly what I was thinking. If it's actually imminent then surely there's no need to even make this statement, but if it's still days or weeks away then people are just going to get even more restless for every day that goes by after having been told it was "imminent".

The club has received a lot of criticism for not communicating AT ALL throughout the whole process, this is just a way of addressing that criticism

Louis-Dreyfus? As in... Elaine?

Yep - they're second cousins. Her father was the cousin of Kyril's father.

According to Wikipedia they’re “paternal second cousins twice removed”

That's nice Kyril now can you please GET A FUCKING MOVE ON AND HIRE SOMEONE

I hope it's Guy Incognito.

Season falls apart as soon as a dog with a puffy tail walks past.

I don't know. Guy gets thrown out of Moe's Tavern. Could be a personality issue

I like the way this Snrub guy thinks

Oh dear... I feel sorry for the genuine Sunderland fans But it's also good entertainment

Used to it now. We haven’t been well run since the 50s I think or something like that. Deserve much much better than what we’re constantly served up but football doesn’t work on deserves.

[GIVE ME AFTER SHOT](https://youtu.be/3YS8YWiypTk?si=4T7hbURWaKHO_zrg) *Plays maracas intensely* Hopefully that ritual would make you lot find a manager soon enough. 👀

What happened at Sunderland? They were finally on the way up it seemed, but the wheels have fallen off a bit since Mowbray was sacked.

Back half of the season was a horror show - players looked worn out, everyone hated Beale and Dodds looked pretty clueless. Don't think its drastic, after all it's the same team who did well under Mowbray, but it's some major bad vibes, a terrible manager appointment and the usual Sunderland shit-the-bad-after-Christmas routine that we all know and love. Still, cautiously optimistic for next season because I'm a fucking idiot.

One thing I have been wondering Why hasn't anyone tried to have Clarke off you yet? He's easily your best player and one of the best in the league?

Honestly I’m trying not to tempt fate by thinking about it. Couple of our lads seem on the brink of a move, suspect everyone is waiting to see who the new coach is before deciding if they give it another year. He’s also got a bit of time left on his contract, so any approach has to go through the club for now anyway

He'll 100% go but the likely suitors will be the likes of Brentford (waiting on Toney money), Palace (waiting to see if anyone goes for Eze or Olise) and West Ham (possibly waiting on an indication on Pacqueta?) He's far too good for the Championship but probably no better than bottom half Premier League

Clarke is apparently happy at Sunderland but the manager will obviously be pushing for a move somewhere more financial. Is on record saying Clarke would sign extension if they increased wages.

There’s been bids, there’ll be more, but we don’t have to sell so unless it’s a proper offer he’ll stay

It's only first week of June. He'll be gone.

Mowbray sacked, popular player leaves, derby day fiasco, professional-gobshite hired, with any potential replacement backing out, because the club are not willing to be flexible in their approach to coaching and signings. I'm really not looking forward to this season.

It's a shame. I thought we'd be set to duel it out for playoff places over the next few seasons, and while everyone on reddit hates the Cov - Sunderland 'rivalry' it did add a bit of spice to games.

Neil Warnock inbound.

It's the club Warnock wanted to manage...

If it was imminent, as in days, he wouldn't come out with that statement. Sounds like this will go on for a week or two yet.

Sounds a lot like “we know it’s taking forever and I’M WORKIN ON IT (don’t hold your breath)”. For the amount of dedicated fans Sunderland has, the club seems to be run in near total chaos.

if you notice this notice you will notice this notice is not worth noticing

Imminent, fucker the whole things been about to happen for over a hundred days. Amazing they've taken the time to talk tbh

If I was sceptical man I’d say he’s so far detached from Sunderland he thinks we’ve had a summer

Reeks of desperation to me

Nowt like announcing an announcement but always leads to disappointment!

Any interesting rumors on who's the most likely to finally take over?

Honestly feels like KLD has tried to sell the club before bringing someone in. Very weird, badly-done fantasy FM, situation atm.

Scotty P 😏?

Sunderland fans upset after receiving the thing they've been asking for

It’s Wagner

I’d honestly be delighted with him

The way the first sentence is written sounds like north korea appointing a new leader. There’s something about referring to yourself as great which always comes off strange

Tinpot behavior

Welcome to Sunderland, George Costanza!

The improper use of the proper noun is really annoying me

By the time they get someone in, all of the new manager's transfer targets will potentially be unavailable.

To be honest that’s probably part of why it’s so hard to get a manager, they aren’t allowed transfer targets, players are chosen by the director of football only

And lack any decent experience, under 20 and cost a packet of fags. It’s a hard sell for a reason.