Sunderland goalkeeper Keiren Westwood admits he's immediately hit it off with manager Paolo di Canio.

Westwood is also happy working with new keeper coach Domenico Doardo.

"I have got on well with him and all the coaches," Westwood explained to the Daily Mail. "I really like them all, Domenico is great to work with, they want to work hard and they are extremely professional and are just really nice people.

"I think he will do really well. We need to sign a few players because the squad is not big enough but they have brought a really different approach to the previous gaffer and I like the way he works.

"Everyone talks about days off, or discipline, but the majority of the lads have signed up for his methods and the way he wants the club to progress.

"It has been blown up because it is Paolo Di Canio but discipline and fines are a part of everyday life at every club. Normally we don't get to hear about them and it remains in-house.

"Discipline is needed but it was a bigger issue at Sunderland because the manager talked about it openly in the press. And it was a new manager, with new ideas, so inevitably a few people got caught out. But no one does it deliberately or maliciously."