Always liked the bloke, quality player, great attitude and desire and i love his passion as a manager, especially during that north east derby victory.
However i'm starting to wonder just how long he can continue as he is. These are his latest comments:
Sunderland boss Paolo Di Canio has threatened to get rid of players who have stepped out of line at the club. Phil Bardsley and Matthew Kilgallon, who were pictured in a casino in midweek, were not included in the squad for Sunday's 1-0 defeat at Tottenham.
Di Canio recently fined seven players for breaches of discipline and called some behaviour "pathetic".
"These players will not be here next year - not under me," said the Italian, without naming specific squad members.
He added: "The owner and I are going to sit at the table and go through but he knows many things. "This is what he told me before: 'Relax, don't worry because we are going to change many things', so it sounds like he supports me completely. We will see in the future. We have to make sure we bring in not only good players, but with a good professionalism that can give satisfaction to everyone”.
Di Canio was particularly angered by Bardsley and Kilgallon's behaviour in midweek as he vented his anger following their final-day defeat.
"It was disgusting. These people can't train with me," the former Swindon Town manager said.
"We were talking about strict rules. I discovered the day after that these people spent nearly all night out in the way you saw.
"I know someone can make a mistake - I did in the past, maybe not in that way. But every time we win, or we are happy, are we going to behave like this? It is ridiculous and pathetic"
After a while players will surely tire of such a hardline approach and won't want to play for him. Whilst i agree there needs to be some form of discipline you can't just keep fining players week after week and threatening to sell anyone who upsets you.
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They brought him in to generate a reaction to keep them up, I guess it worked. However with Di Canio it's only ever going to end one way - badly.
If they stick with him for next season I reckon they'll be relegated.
IMO more managers should speak out more in regards to unprofessional behaviour.
However, whether or not he can be so cutting and so public in his handling of these matters is another question. I think it's about time someone "on the inside" had the balls to come out and say things like this but not sure if I'm your average ignorant self-indulged footballer I'd be falling over myself to join Sunderland and take a pounding in public.
He has a new boss - who he knows is a hard arse - and he gets pissed till the early hours and takes stupid photos, what a dickhead.
Exactly. It's probably reasonably difficult to get top players to go and live in the north east, usually you'd do so by over paying them. If players know the manager is a nutter who will be on their case 24-7 making them actually work hard for their money then they might well decide to go elsewhere.
one game left in the season is the equivilant to having a week left at work before a nice long hol they only had to wait a week to let their hair down
i make him 100% right
In reality it means nothing. Paying players £30k of £3k pw won't makes them better or worse players or better or worse people.
Some players have always broken curfews and done stupid things and some always will. Most players work hard and obey the rules. And most clubs and fans will forgive mis-behaviour if the player is doing it on the pitch.
These people aren't and shouldn't be role models. They are just footballers.
Disagree strongly with Henry. They are not role models, but certain standards are demanded in return for the money the earn. Just because they are often not bright, or from disrupted backgrounds, does not mean that they should be allowed to behave just any old way. There is also a peculiarly British problem with boozing, which really offends PDC, and rightly. As he says, it takes you 3-4 days to recover fully from a bender. The continentals are baffled why Brit players interfere with their own career potential in this destructive way.
I wrote an article on why I can't bring myself to dislike him despite his being a fascist, recently, if anyone's interested. Written from the perspective of a lefty Charlton fan.
http://sabotagetimes.com/football/id-rather-spend-an-hour-with-fascist-di-canio-than-5-mins-with-alan-shearer/
From what I understand MON was not a big presence at Sunderland because he spent a lot of time at home with his wife who has been unwell, so he was more of a coach than an all seeing manager.
For PDC, a bloke who payed at the highest levels of the game, he probably cannot believe that a bloke like Bardsley thinks he has made it already and can write himself off between games!
The culture in a club is critical, look at the total unravelling of the Australian cricket team these last few years as solid blokes like Hayden and Langer have been replaced by wankers like Warner and Watson who are in it for themselves.
Let's put this in perspective, these players were celebrating finishing 4th bottom ffs. They should be ashamed of their performance given the resources they had available this season, not beering it up before the season's over. Yes, I would be a "goody goodie". It's called professionalism.
And we weren't on fotballers wages and we didn't have six weeks off in the summer.
In my view Chris has excellent interpersonal skills.
PFA chief Gordon Taylor has warned Di Canio that he cannot be a "law unto himself" after members of Sunderland's squad raised a complaint with their union following a series of club fines.
Di Canio has fined a number of his players after a club night out hit the back page headlines prior to their final game of the season at Tottenham.
The Italian was unapologetic in his public condemnation of some of his players - but now they have brought the PFA in.
And PFA chief Taylor is far from happy with Di Canio.
"He cannot be a law unto himself," Taylor told the Daily Mirror.
"We're aware of player unrest at some comments made publicly, and other situations. A number of players are involved.
"We're aware of Paolo Di Canio's comments - it's something we had to deal with [when the Italian was manager] at Swindon as well.
"Our rules for discipline are agreed with the Premier League and Football Association."
Don't get me wrong, i admire di Canio for putting his foot down but it's the way he's gone about it and from that post above quoting Gordon taylor it appears as if he's upset half his squad. He could probably afford to throw his weight around and bully players in league's one and two because decent players are a lot easier to come by. Good premier league players are not so easy to come by though, and he'll have a job attracting players when they hear about his hard line approach.
At school did you enjoy the class more with the relaxed teacher who had a laugh with the class, or the class with the no nonsense shouting bully of a teacher who gave you a detention for breathing?
He's the boss and should run his team as he sees fit.