15 Mar 2017 21:11:54
One thing that concerns me about Lee Congerton is his recent spell with Sunderland. Apart from Defoe, their recruitment over the past few seasons has been diabolical. Sunderland are just about the epitome of the BPL spending way above average money for way below average players.

1.) 15 Mar 2017
15 Mar 2017 21:55:50
We need to give the man a chance think he was only there about a year so don't think he's fully responsible for all there woes. A would think any Sunderland manager would have the final say on any player signings.

2.) 15 Mar 2017
15 Mar 2017 22:27:05
Absolutely, everyone deserves a chance and hopefully he helps to bring in a lot of good players for the club. I've just seen that some Sunderland fans have been giving him some bad criticism on social media about his time there.

{Ed007's Note - Let's be honest, Sunderland's a bit of a circus club - Martin Bain's their CEO for a start - and Ellis Short cut budgets and transfer funds a while back after he decided he wanted to sell the club.
As I said I don't know hee haw about him but there's some interesting articles out there about him:


www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/sunderland/11864382/Sunderland-sporting-director-targeted-by-Borussia-Monchengladbach.html

www.theguardian.com/football/2012/may/21/lee-congerton-interview

www.bundesligafanatic.com/hsv-data-driven-scouting-during-arnesen-era/

3.) 15 Mar 2017
15 Mar 2017 22:50:00
You're right Ed, they made a load of folk redundant recently which is unbelievable for how much money they take in year upon year.

{Ed007's Note - I didn't know that, Kev.}

4.) 16 Mar 2017
15 Mar 2017 23:51:19
Well two of their players who he recruited did very well for us in the past, denayer and Mathews, pickford is an outstanding young keeper, Sebastian Larsson, jack rodwell and Fabio borini are very good players, who I would take at Celtic, so could it be a case of the management not getting the best out of them, rather than the recruitment being bad?

5.) 16 Mar 2017
16 Mar 2017 01:48:55
watching denayer recently, it looks as if sunderland have ruined him as a player.

6.) 16 Mar 2017
16 Mar 2017 07:28:50
Poyet and big sam tells you everything you need to know. he must be doing something right as he's been at chelsea Liverpool. frank arnesen thought highly enough of him to take him to hamburg in i think a dof role and then his short spell at Sunderland plus if uou read brendans comments on him having previously worked with him thatll do for me.

7.) 17 Mar 2017
17 Mar 2017 10:42:03
It said on BBC website that he was a scout for Chelsea and Hamburg. but a Sporting Director at Sunderland!? I have to admit looking at some of Sunderland's buys I have been a bit concerned but is Sporting Director the same as Head Scout?