Everything Sunderland boss Alex Neil said about club's ownership, Nathan Broadhead, injuries and team news ahead of MK Dons clash

We’re signing off from today’s blog - but Neil has also spoken to the written press, including our SAFC writer Phil Smith, ahead of tomorrow’s match.

We’ll have loads more Black Cats content over on the SAFC section of the Echo website.

See you soon.

I hope so.

I think first things first, we can’t be worrying about what Newcastle are doing.

The simple fact is we have to deal with our immediate positioning in terms of where we are and need to try and resolve that as quickly as possible.

We do want to obviously try to climb up the table, but I think what is really important is that there are a lot of clubs where history can weigh them down if you like.

What we need to do is we need to try and park that and look at the players we’ve got. We need to try and create our own history in terms of getting ourselves out of this division.

Of course.

I’m really excited to be here, the challenges that it brings, the scrutiny and pressure it brings. That is what being a manager is about.

Let’s be honest, it will be decided by the result. If we go there and win and play well obviously it will be a really good experience for me.

I think it’s probably frustrating for Jermain because he hasn’t come in with full fitness.

What we have to bare in mind as well is his age, and listen if you at Jermain he is a fine specimen in terms of he’s in good nic and naturally looks after himself.

Naturally he hasn’t been able to get any game sharpness and that isn’t his fault because he hasn’t been playing football.

As we’ve discussed, we have a really limited time between now and the end of the season.

At the moment he’s playing catch up and we are running out of games rapidly.

It;s really difficult for him to come in and show what he’s been capable of over the course of his career.

That match sharpness at the moment is difficult because he hasn’t been playing.

Luke (O’Nien) is doing non-contact but is on the grass.

Aiden (McGeady) has been on the grass but because it’s a medial-type injury it sort of niggles and lingers on a little bit.

It is not one of those ones that when it heals it’s gone, there is sort of that niggly period in between getting fully fit.

Nathan Broadhead is back at Everton getting treatment on his hamstring but I’m led to believe he’s on the grass as well so he’s making good progress.

Unfortunately they will be weeks away rather than days.

They are all huge games.

It’s a bit of a snowball effect, this one is huge but then the next one becomes even huger, and then the next one.

When you go to any club you want to win any match you perform in.

I just think the scrutiny here is magnified because we have such a huge fan base and I welcome that pressure.

That is one of the key reasons why I came here.

The only owner I’ve met is Kyril, so I’ve not spoken to anybody else, I’ve never met anybody else, I haven’t seen anybody else.

Kyril is the only one I’ve had contact with along with Kristjaan and Steve, and that’s basically it as far as I’m concerned so I work for them.

What we have spoken about is we want an immediate impact to try and get results as quickly as we can.

Obviously with a club the size of Sunderland we want to try and get out of League One as quickly as we can.

Our main priority is just to win as many games as we can until the end of the season, see where that takes us to and if it means we can challenge for automatics, which looks difficult at the moment looking at the points difference, or we get in the play-offs.

Our first priority is just to win and I don’t try to look too far ahead.