Don Goodman

Niall, you and Keith obviously fond of Ireland.

You and I, I can't have you on here and not talk about Sunderland.

You're a legend on the pitch up there, a legend off the pitch for the work you did behind the scenes.

It's been a hard watch the last four or five seasons for somebody that cares passionately about the football club.

And we've watched them end up in League One.

And if...

If the EFL decide the points per game and everything, then they're going to spend another season in League One.

Were there any signs in your last sort of months at the club that the club were on that sort of kind of a pathway?

And what do you think about the future?

Do you think that they will be able to get to a place where they'll be able to start climbing the football ladder again?

Luke, you were saying before we came on air how busy it had been over the last couple of weeks and things had started to really speed up.

I just wanted to ask you about how hard it is for you to make plans.

Obviously, is it safe to say that you have to have two plans now for West Bromwich Albion?

One for what happens in the event that you stay in the championship and one which, with my West Bromwich Albion hat on, I hope comes to fruition, is when you get into the Premier League.

In terms of player recruitment, have you got two sort of...

lots of two balls that you're trying to juggle, really.

You're almost trying to have a crystal ball.

And the fact that there hasn't been any guideline set as to when the transfer window will be, does that make life a little bit more difficult in terms of contracts, et cetera?

Luke, the recruitment has been outstanding, as Keith alluded to, but is it safe to say that the best piece of recruitment that you did last summer was tempting Slavin to the club?

I had the privilege of interviewing him over Zoom for the Sky Sports, and I'll tell you what, he's the kind of manager that I wish that I would have played for.