Regarding Michael Beale’s departure from Sunderland, an intriguing development has surfaced.
This afternoon, it was announced that Michael Beale had left Sunderland after their weekend 2-1 loss to Birmingham City.
Despite being named Tony Mowbray’s replacement only in December, the 43-year-old won just four of his 12 games before being fired.
After a dismal run of results, Sunderland supporters had been demanding for his head for weeks, but it had not appeared likely that the board would concede their unorthodox appointment so easily.
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But now rumors are circulating that he will be making an announcement soon, and Keith Downie is saying that Mike Dodds will take over until the summer.
It’s possible that Beale’s terrible time at Wearside won’t end with his dismissal, despite the fact that he received harsh criticism for seemingly snubbing Trai Hume’s handshake over the weekend.
Journalist James Copley of the Sunderland Echo speculates that Beale’s departure might have instead been the result of a consensus.
“Thought it was a sacking but hearing it may well have been a mutual convo/decision,” he posted on X.
Michael Beale has been slaughtered in his brief spell at Sunderland, but he can at least take a tiny bit of credit for realising it is time to leave the club, rather than trying to prove himself and only knocking us further down the table.
I would like to think the club would have forced him out the door either way, but Kristjaan Speakman appears to be an extremely hard man to read after the number of controversial decisions he has made.
Beale will likely struggle to get any job in the Championship and above – that is unless someone is daft enough to fall for his apparent interview skills.
Though I would argue that our board come off a lot worse than he does, as they were stupid enough to bring him in in the first place.
Beale was only doing his job, albeit poorly, but he was always going to jump at the chance to join us. Speakman shouldn’t have fallen for it, just like a majority of our fanbase didn’t.
At least there shouldn’t be as much pressure on the club to find a replacement now if Mike Dodds takes the reins until the summer, giving Speakman months to find the ideal candidate. If he still fails with that, then I think it is time he left too.
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