Sunderland sack Coleman as club put up for sale

LONDON: Sunderland sacked manager Chris Coleman on Sunday, and then announced that owner Ellis Short was selling the club following the northeast side’s relegation to the third tier of English football.Sunderland said Short plans to sell to a group led by Stewart Donald, chairman of Eastleigh, a non-league club in the south of England.Sunderland have dropped from the Premier League to League One in under 12 months following two successive relegations, with Short admitting in a statement his disappointment at how his stewardship of the Black Cats had ended.“It is no secret I have been trying to sell Sunderland but I have waited until the right group came along that have the experience, finances and plan to take this great club back to where it deserves to be,” he said.

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