Albania international Lorik Cana has been appointed Sunderland's new captain.
The 24-year-old, a £5million signing from Marseille, will take over from Dean Whitehead as skipper following his departure for Stoke, which was closely followed by that of stand-in Danny Collins, also to the Britannia Stadium.
"I think anybody who's watched him will understand why I have made him captain of the club," Bruce told the Sunderland Echo.
"Some people might raise their eyebrows and think, 'He's a foreign player', but he speaks the language perfectly well, he leads by example, he's a good age, he's got experience, he captains his country and he's captained his old club in Marseille."
Cana has made a big impact since his summer move to the Stadium of Light, forging a combative central midfield partnership with fellow newcomer Lee Cattermole.
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Hairy Twitt,
I can imagine the lady your not, you dirty little trollop, you been poll dancing(or kerb crawling as its more commonly known) down in Manchester. have ya!!!
-88- you know what they say- fat ladies click click, here your one of them birds from Viz ain't you. "gerrit out of ower fridge, ya dowty bastad"
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ant.smith1984: I'm afraid I'm going to have to pick you up on one point. The story goes that AIDS actually started in Africa when some guy dicked a zebra. This was changed later when they realised it wasn't a zebra after all but a monkey wearing a black and white shirt.
clairehewitt88: been at the crystal methamphetamine again? You cocoa-shunting bone smuggler.
sunderland are @#$% always will be.couldnt even get the ball off stoke.sunderland is just the @#$% of the north east thats where aids started.
go away with ya geordie manager.wees keys are these.go sort ya @#$% city centre out the bridges lmao.just @#$% like the rest of scumderland.
Lol claire is just having her time of month.....remember don't wear white underduds again!
clairehewitt88: you've been hanging out in them tranny bars in Manchester again haven't you?. When are you having the op? You sad confused little Barbie.
doesnt matter who sunderland buy was down manchester over the weekend got talking to a few man u fans they think its funny how sunderland think there gona be bigger than the toon all of a sudden.like they said scumderland just buy man u rejects.toon toon.and who is that cana when hes at home asda manager.lmao wees keys are these
Tony K(nobhead) whatever floats your boat you pervy fat lad!
FTM
John: 'bigger clubs like... Fulham'?? You are having a laff mate.
mike ashley brown ale! comming to stores in newcastle sh itty centre soon.....
Roll on down boys, league 1 is waiting!
tony k john c..the heed era was indeed their finest, finishing eh...7th!!!! they werent called the entertainers for nothing you know!!!!!!!!
Tony K, cheer up Peter Reid, every Geordie can take the credit for writing that song as the words just fell into place and rolled off the tongue, the mackems may as well have wrote it themselves.
The heed era was SAFC's finest hour....and was still rubbish. Mind you it created some of the finest chants ever heard in a football stadium
Sean A, I was referring to the times when you weren't champions, the times when you were almost relegated out of it.
You’re young so I'll explain. Sunderland hasn’t actually spent that many seasons in the top flight and in the late eighties, actually went down to the 3rd division. In the seventies you only had one season in the top flight, to get relegated.
Then their was the monkey's heed era, all a bit embarrassing if you want to pass yourselves off as a big club, it would take a bit of explaining don't you think?
yes we struggled in the championship! THATS HOW WE WHERE CHAMPIONS!..................come on to easy!
PWilson, consistent premiere league side, lets look at it then.
You beat Bolton, a good result at the time, but now it appears so is everyone else. You got murdered off Chelsea (much to the surprise of a lot of SMB's?)
You beat Blackburn but were very lucky to get anything out of that game at all but granted, a win is a win, and you showed your true colours and quality against Stoke.
We on the other hand are taking the pi55 out of this championship so far, I can't understand how your lot struggle so much when your in it?
16.I'm going to be honest here and say I think you have made a good signing with this lad-JC@/on Sun 6 Sep 3:10PM.
Did you miss sunday service this morning JC. or are you the first Skunk readily
"admitting" he's putting together a good consistent Premier league side, which leaves all of it's neighbors in its wake, whilst they languish in the lower leagues, with little more than 11 pro's on the books(desperately trying to avoid injuries -before they even get to October). are ya!!!
"The pride of county Durham" since 1879
SAFC
I'm going to be honest here and say I think you have made a good signing with this lad. I'm surprised he was overlooked by the bigger clubs like Spurs, Everton and Fulham.
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