Short keen to find new football director for Sunderland
Sunderland chairman Ellis Short is keen to continue with the club's management structure, despite sacking football director Roberto de Fanti.
The Evening Chronicle says Sunderland are expected to bring in another director of football, but this time Short will want to make certain that whoever he appoints has some experience of English football.
With 13 days remaining in the January window, Poyet will take the lead role in recruitment having already been the prime mover in full-back Marcos Alonso’s loan move from Fiorentina earlier this month.