On-loan Sunderland defender Ondrej Celustka believes the clubs decision to sack Paolo Di Canio was a little too hasty.
The 24-year old Czech, who is on loan from Turkish club Trabzonspor, started all five games under the Italian before he was given his marching orders on Sunday.
Celustka is grateful to Di Canio for giving him a chance and feels that Sunderland may have been better suited to keeping the controversial figure in the job for a little while longer.
"Naturally, I am glad that I have been given chance to play right from the start and that I have played in all fixtures," Celustka told CTK.
"It's an enormous experience for me and a big call as well, so I am satisfied with that. However, I am very disappointed about how we have done at the start of the season. Unfortunately, manager Paolo Di Canio has paid the price for that.
"In my opinion the decision was a little bit hasty because he was building the team and in the summer 14 new players, including me, arrived. It needs some time to settle down.
"On the other hand, to win just one point in five games is simply not good, so our director Roberto De Fanti was kind of pressed by our fans to sack Paolo."
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