Bruce quits Hull City as Moyes joins Sunderland

Hull City have confirmed their manager Steve Bruce has left the club after spending four years at the KC Stadium.

The 55-year-old helped the club achieve promotion to the Premier League and it was for the second time he helped the Tigers make it to England’s top flight club competition. According to the BBC, a breakdown in relationship with vice-chairman Ehab Allam led to Bruce’s exit.

Hull confirmed that Bruce left the club by mutual consent. The club are looking for his replacement and until then, Mike Phelan will take the role of a caretaker manager.

Meanwhile, Sunderland has hired former Manchester United coach David Moyes as manager, a day after Sam Allardyce left the Premier League club to take charge of England’s national team.

Sunderland said in a statement Saturday that 53-year-old Moyes signed a four-year contract with the club, which just avoided relegation last season.

Moyes’ relative success at Everton from 2002-13 earned him the job at United after Alex Ferguson’s retirement, but he lasted less than a season following a series of disappointing results.
He took over at Real Sociedad in Spain, but was sacked last November after a poor start to the season.

Sunderland chairman Ellis Short says Moyes “was by far and away our first choice… we have a fantastic opportunity to begin looking upwards, rather than downwards every season”.

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