Kristjaan Speakman confirms Sunderland coaching staff plan and makes Régis Le Bris pledge.
Sunderland are searching for new recruits to their backroom staff
Kristjaan Speakman has confirmed that Régis Le Bris will have the final say on his assistant as the club continues its search for reinforcements to the first-team coaching staff.
Le Bris began work on Monday with the existing coaching group of Mike Dodds, Michael Proctor and Alessandro Barcherini. Le Bris confirmed in his first press conference that he would not be bringing any staff with him from his previous club FC Lorient, but explained that this was a personal preference rather than a club directive. Sunderland’s sporting director said Le Bris would choose an assistant and that any further appointments would be weighed up based on any further attributes that Le Bris and club felt were required.
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“I think Regis is really keen to have the best, I think his phrase would be teammates, you know, even as staff,” Speakman said.
“And he doesn’t, at the present time, have a cohort of people that he’s worked with probably more to do with his background [in academy football]. And he was really, really clear that he’s got a profile around the staffing structure and we’re currently trying to recruit another assistant to that profile. And then once we have that assistant in, that will have a knock-on effect, I’m sure, in terms of where we are on the other positions and where we want to expand or where
