00:00Sunderland are reportedly close to bringing in two new signings in Senegalese midfielder Habib Diara
00:05and Atletico Madrid full-back Ronaldo Mandeva, with Christian Speakman saying they must find solutions to stay in the league.
00:12We have to stay true to what we are as a football club, what we've built.
00:16I've been on record previously saying that the solution to get us to the Premier League won't necessarily be the identical solution for us to stay in the Premier League.
00:23So we will have to pivot and we will have to adjust in terms of how we operate and what our team looks like and what the feel of it is.
00:30We want to make sure that we're always aiming for that sort of high performance.
00:33We want to make sure that we've got a youthful squad, but we also understand the challenge of what the Premier League is.
00:38It's the best league in the world and we're going to have to make sure that we have a team that's obviously capable of doing all the things that our team has done before, but obviously at a higher level.
00:47I think looking forward, everybody understands the scale of the task to stay in the Premier League.
00:52The success rate is so low because it is such a challenge.
00:56People said getting back to the Premier League from League One was a huge challenge.
00:59This is a huge challenge and what I know about Sunderland as a city, the people, the supporters, we love a challenge.
01:04And the people here at the training ground at the stadium are all geared up to trying to make sure we can achieve that challenge.
01:09And Middlesbrough's new head coach, Rob Edwards, has welcomed back most of his players ahead of the Championship campaign to come,
01:16with Edwards himself outlining what he expects from his squad in pre-season.
01:20Well, I'm really looking forward to seeing him first and day one and almost being able to set the scene.
01:24They've got a couple of days of testing on a Thursday and Friday and then I think the Monday it'll be a sit down and we'll just sort of,
01:29just so to see this is what they're going to get from us, first of all.
01:34And then a little bit on how I want us to be able to go then and set the vision, building a lot of the good stuff that we do.
01:42The way I want to play, we want to play with intensity.
01:44This is non-negotiable.
01:46We want to win the ball back double quick.
01:49We want to be controlling the game, but as far away from our goal as possible.
01:54I want shots, I want goals, I want chances, crosses, action.
01:58That's what I want.
02:01So building on a lot of the good stuff, I know we can control a game.
02:04We want to be able to control it as far away from our goal as possible.
02:08As soon as we lose it, let's win it back quick.
02:09So that's a little bit of a, you know, we want to be aggressive, we want to be exciting.
