Congerton has not been able to identify players that will take us forward within the constraints of the financial plan at SAFC. However it is galling to see that other teams manage to get bargain basement players in who improve their squads. However some of the players that we have been allegedly linked with, have when the agents have been negotiating terms, pulled the plug when they have seen the Sunderland pay structure. It will also be hard to encourage players to come when they see the managerial casualties over the last few years and the perennial struggle at the bottom. The chairman in his programme notes yesterday confirmed what a lot of us already knew, that he is making up financial shortfalls on a season after season basis which shows a level of commitment. Unfortunately he needs to be a little more robust and get rid of some in the business side of the club and get people in who have experience of working in fooball clubs not those that can talk the talk in an interview, but