Advocaat Looking For New Players If He Stays.

Dick Advocaat has told Sunderland that he will need around six quality signings if he is to stay at the club as manager next season.

The powers that be want the Dutchman to stay after steering the team to safety in the Premier League even though at one time things looked to be all over.

Advocaat wouldn’t mind keeping retirement on hold to manage Sunderland on a permanent basis, but he will not do it with the current squad of players who are already at the club.

Talks are set to take place between the Sunderland board and Advocaat next week and he would like assurances that there would be cash available for him to put a much stronger, more talented squad together.

If the 67 year old can get that, all he has to do then is persuade his wife that managing Sunderland is a better prospect than retiring to a house in the Dutch countryside. (That should be easy)

Advocaat has said that despite investment going into the club over the last few seasons that has been wasted, he wants to bring in players that will make an instant impact on the squad, vastly improving things.

Speaking to the Sunderland Echo, he said: “This squad needs four, five or six regulars – not quantity, but quality.

“If they cannot do that, okay, but then I definitely will not stay.

“That`s one part of the cake, the other part (his wife) is more difficult!

“We cannot spend hundreds of millions, but we can do it like Southampton, like Swansea and Stoke.

“You don`t need to only buy quantity, you have to buy in quality, otherwise keep the money in your pocket.

“You can waste your money easily.

“I think in the past, there`s been too much focus here on quantity, rather than players who make the team better.

“That`s the most important thing in my opinion.”