Sunderland had a mare with Giaccherini

Sunderland supervisor Tony Mowbray has loved a promising begin to life within the dugout on the Stadium of Gentle since taking on from Alex Neil on the helm.

The previous Blackburn Rovers boss has solely misplaced two of his eight Championship matches since his first recreation against Rotherham and has the membership sitting ninth within the table because it stands.

Neil was additionally a hit on Wearside as he guided the staff to promotion out of League One by way of the play-offs in lower than a 12 months in cost earlier than he moved on to Stoke.

Nonetheless, the Black Cats haven’t all the time had the very best of luck with managerial appointments and one who stands out, for the incorrect causes, is Paulo Di Canio.

The Italian joined the membership in March 2013 and picked up eight factors from seven video games on the finish of the 2012/13 marketing campaign. He then didn’t win any of the primary five Premier League matches of the next marketing campaign and was sacked in September 2013, six months after arriving on the Stadium of Gentle.

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His outcomes on the pitch left quite a bit to be desired and his work within the switch market in the summertime of 2013 additionally triggered loads of issues for the membership transferring ahead.

One of many signings the previous West Ham midfielder had a nightmare with was his compatriot Emanuele Giaccherini. Sunderland snapped him up from Juventus for a payment within the area of £6.5m, after taking part in for Italy on the European Championships in 2012.

He had scored six objectives and supplied seven assists in 52 outings for the Previous Woman and the left-winger was unable to enhance upon these common numbers after transferring to England.

Giaccherini scored four objectives and assisted four in 32 Premier League matches in his first two seasons – struggling an ankle injury in his second marketing campaign – with the Black Cats earlier than heading out on mortgage to Bologna for 2015/16, the place he discovered the again of the web seven occasions in 28 Serie A appearances.

Sunderland then opted to money in on the Italian in the summertime of 2016 as they decided that he was ‘surplus to necessities’ and offered him to Napoli for a payment of £1.2m.

This meant that the membership misplaced out on £5.3m from the preliminary worth they paid for him in 2013, a lower in worth of roughly 82% from £6.5m.

When you think about this and his sporadic influence on the staff with a objective contribution each 4 league outings, Di Canio made a mistake by deciding to splash the money on him throughout his solely window in command of the membership.