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Di Canio’s style ‘was his undoing’
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Paolo Di Canio tried to manage by fear and paid the price, former Sunderland manager Steve Bruce said after the Italian became the first managerial casualty of the English Premier League season.
Sunderland announced his sacking on Sunday after a string of poor results culminating in a 0-3 defeat at West Bromwich Albion that left it with just one point from its first five matches.
The former AC Milan and Lazio player, whose fascist sympathies caused controversy when he was appointed in March, had said after that match that his players had “rubbish in their brains” and needed “to have more confrontation, more anger with each other”.
Bruce, now at Hull City, said Di Canio’s confrontational style was outmoded.
“You cannot manage in the Premier League these days through a fear factor,” he told talkSport radio yesterday. “You’ve got to be able to manage individuals.”
Di Canio made sweeping changes in his short time at the northeastern club, bringing in 14 new players and introducing a tough new fitness regime.
Former Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn agreed with Bruce that Di Canio’s confrontational style had been his undoing.
“If we start to peel the layers off in the coming days and find out what life was like under him from various players, you’ll probably see a story that says this was a guy who did things in a totally unique way and by the looks of things, the players weren’t buying into it,” he said.
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