Thing is with MON he always seems get a team playing better that is not his. When taken over from DOL and the Arsenal game and then on the team played well but with DOL team mainly and a few youngsters (Gabby & Luke Moore etc)
At Sunderland he has inherited Steve Bruce squad packed with better and better younger talent than we had at Villa back when he first started.
That James McClean looks an absolute bargain at 350k and is like a younger version of James Milner!! he will go on to better things, also they have Meylet, Colbeck, Elmohamady, Wickham, Campbell so a good basis of good youth.
But give it a few years when most of these will probably be dropped or sold (McClean??) and he starts buying 30+ journeymen (Davies, Heskey) on big money as well as Bridge and that Kyrgiakos but a many more the wheels will fall off and will end in tears and he will resign when their fans will start to question who he keeps buying old past it players on last day of the transfer window.
Like i say, at moment... he is probably god to them and can do no wrong, but this is Bruce's team and just like DOL team at time will work their socks off for him, until he starts buying his old past it players and mega money!!
Then we will all see what happens, like everyone says best Sunderland will do is around 8th.