00:00Sunderland Sporting Director Christian Speakman has stressed how the club know the scale of the challenge that they have ahead of them in the Premier League next season.
00:09I think you're right, to look at it in batches of years we've always spoken about, multi-year if that's the language we're going to use.
00:17I think looking forward, everybody understands the scale of the task to stay in the Premier League.
00:22The success rate is so low because it is such a challenge.
00:25People said getting back to the Premier League from League One was a huge challenge.
00:29What I know about Sunderland as a city, the people, the supporters, we love a challenge.
00:34The people here at the training ground, at the stadium are all geared up to make sure we can achieve that challenge.
00:38There's nothing to say we can't, but we have to be sensible in the way that we work.
00:43We have to ensure that any of the actions that we take on the short term, whether it's around the club and the team,
00:49help us with the objective of retaining Premier League status.
00:52But at the same time, if we were not to get the outcome in the future that we want,
00:56five performances, the club's in a healthy position.
00:59And that's really, really important because if you're going to look at the next three, four or five years to become established,
01:05there's every chance that's not going to be a linear journey.
01:08And Middlesbrough's new head coach Rob Edwards has outlined Borough's plans for the start of pre-season,
01:14as the players start to return ahead of the upcoming campaign.
01:19Well, I'm really looking forward to seeing them first on day one and almost be able to set the scene.
01:23They've got a couple of days of testing on a Thursday and Friday, then I think the Monday it will be a sit down
01:26and we'll just sort of, just sort of see this is what they're going to get from us, first of all.
01:32And then a little bit on how I want us to be able to go then and set the vision.
01:38Building on a lot of the good stuff that we do.
01:40The way I want to play, we want to play with intensity.
01:42This is non-negotiable.
01:44We want to win the ball back double quick.
01:47We want to be controlling the game, but as far away from our goal as possible.
01:52I want shots, I want goals, I want chances, crosses, action.
01:56That's what I want.
01:58So building on a lot of the good stuff, I know we can control a game.
02:02We want to be able to control it as far away from our goal as possible.
02:06As soon as we lose it, let's win it back quick.
02:08So that's a little bit of a, you know, we want to be aggressive.
