#3 There is no escaping the relegation drop – just ask Sunderland
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Sunderland had been flirting with relegation for many years. The club have underinvested for several seasons and wasted the resources they did have on overrated players.
However, this season, Sunderland had reached new lows and levels of embarrassment. When David Moyes brought in Joleon Lescott, Bryan Oviedo, Darron Gibson and Stevan Pienaar, the world sat there and laughed.
These were all former players of Moyes at Everton and had an average age of 31, which didn’t exactly scream out vibrancy nor youthfulness. While experience is important, bringing in your old mates to get the band back together wasn’t what was needed at Sunderland.
The poor recruitment is a lesson to any newly-promoted Premier League team. Even Swansea, after a tumultuous summer, had been on the brink of relegation this season after performing so well throughout their time of being in England’s top flight division.
As a football club in the Premier League, investment pivotal in avoiding the dreaded drop to the Championship. Newcastle, Brighton and one of Huddersfield or Reading need to take note of Sunderland’s demise and allow heavy financial backing.
