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Simon Grayson will fight to make Sunderland great again: 'Seventy people lost their jobs here in the last year... the players are responsible'

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Simon Grayson does not strike you as the kind of bloke who would care much for advertising slogans, but he may just have coined one as manager of Sunderland.

'I want to make a good club great again,' he said with a matter-of-fact air on Monday.

After Sunderland's recent troubles, the club may have found itself the right man to move it forward.

Simon Grayson has told Sportsmail's Ian Ladyman heu00a0wants to make Sunderland 'great again'
Simon Grayson has told Sportsmail's Ian Ladyman he wants to make Sunderland 'great again'
Former Leeds boss Grayson, 47, replaced David Moyes as Black Cats manager this summer
Former Leeds boss Grayson, 47, replaced David Moyes as Black Cats manager this summer

Grayson is as straightforward as they come in football.