Steve Bruce has brought his Wigan Athletic backroom staff to Sunderland.

Bruce will be joined on Wearside by coaches Eric Black, Nigel Spink and Keith Bertschin, who have agreed to follow him from Wigan.

And he hopes together they can take Sunderland forward and replicate the success they had at their previous club.

He said: "The aim is to take the progression forward. We don't want to be flirting with relegation. We want to be up where we were with Wigan."