“Thanks for helping me a lot in my training. Good luck boss.” Amad Diallo was quick to respond to Tony Mowbray’s shock sacking by Sunderland late on Monday night and it is hard to interpret the Ivory Coast winger’s social media message as anything other than a rebuke to the Stadium of Light’s seemingly trigger-happy board.
The talented Diallo shone under Mowbray’s tutelage while on loan at Sunderland from Manchester United last season and were it not for a knee injury sustained during the summer the 21-year-old might well have been part of Erik ten Hag’s first team by now.
