Pundit Backs Manager With 9.1% Win Rate To Take Sunderland Job

Pundit Backs Manager With 9.1% Win Rate To Take Sunderland Job

On Monday night, Sunderland announced that Tony Mowbray had been relieved of his duties after a three-game winless run in the Championship which included two defeats to Plymouth Argyle and Huddersfield Town.

Mowbray took charge of the Black Cats over a year ago, succeeding Alex Neil who left the club to take up the vacant head coach position at second-tier rivals Stoke City. In his first season, Sunderland made an unprecedented run to the playoffs.

Despite losing to Luton Town in the semi-finals, it was an excellent achievement by Mowbray and his young players.

This season, his side were sitting inside the playoff places as recently as the November international break, but a poor spell of form over the past fortnight has seen the club drop to ninth in the tableMowbray has since left his post with Sunderland just three points off the top six and the board have begun the process of finding a new man to take his place in the dugout at the Stadium of Light.

TalkSPORT pundit and former Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan believes that ex-Derby County, Chelsea and Everton boss Frank Lampard should throw his name into the hat for the job [quotes via TBR Football]:

 

“If you talk about football people who want to get back on the ladder then Frank Lampard.

 

“If you talk about football people with so much motivation, and [Graeme] Souness was saying that we are so lucky that he has so much money that he wants to do it, there are lots of people with money who will flog themselves to the next level, if Lampard wants to do something then a football club of the size and stature of Sunderland, with the opportunity to rebuild.

 

“That would be an interesting job wouldn’t it?”

 

Lampard hasn’t worked at a football club since being appointed as Chelsea’s caretaker boss last season following the departure of Graham Potter. With the Blues, the Stamford Bridge icon had a win rate of merely 9.1%, having lost eight of his 11 games in charge.

 

Like most of Lampard’s managerial appointments, this could either go incredibly well or disastrously. However, the England legend does have experience getting teams to the playoffs, having done so in his first season as a head coach with the Rams back in 2019.

 

It could also be a good opportunity for the 45-year-old to rebuild his career as a manager after three poor spells with Everton and Chelsea twice.