Sam Allardyce says he has no regrets on leaving Sunderland to take up the post as England manager in 2016. The former Black Cats boss, who succeeded Roy Hodgson, lasted just 67 days in charge of the Three Lions and became England’s shortest ever serving manager.
His exit came in the wake of an undercover sting by The Telegraph, which filmed him suggesting to reporters how to ‘get around’ FIFA’s third-party ownership rules. He was also shown negotiating a fee of £400,000 to represent an overseas firm that was hoping to profit from Premier League transfers.
FA chief executive Martin Glenn and chairman Greg Clarke arrived at Wembley for a series of crisis meetings in September 2016 and Allardyce left his post by ‘mutual consent’. Allardyce has previously claimed he was ‘stitched up’ but insists that the opportunity to manage his country was one that he simply couldn’t refuse.
