Chris Coleman has taken a swipe at former Sunderland chairman Ellis Short - with the Welshman insisting the Black Cats was the right club for him, but Short was the wrong owner.
Coleman's sacking at the end of April 2018 came just minutes before the sale of the club to Stewart Donald and Charlie Methven was confirmed.
And former Wales manager Coleman revealed that he had no contact whatsoever with Short during his five months in charge on Wearside.
" Sunderland was 100 percent the right club," Coleman told beIN Sports' Keys and Gray Show.
"The chairman of Sunderland was 100 percent the wrong chairman.
"As a manager or a coach or even as a player, before you signed a contract you'd meet the chairman.
"I've still never had a conversation with him - not a text or an email.
"When we arrived we needed some help, and we got completely bombed.
"From Day One when we arrived - absolutely no dialogue, nothing.
"That really disappointed me.
"It's the right club and I would do it again, but only if it was a different chairman."
The timing of the announcements - Coleman's dismissal before the that of the takeover - made it seem that the manager's sacking was the last act of Short's reign.
But Coleman has cast doubt on that narrative, saying: "He [Donald] sacked me before he'd even sat down to ask me what I thought.
"I was told through a third party that it was the end. We were out."
Coleman had had only one transfer window in January 2018 in which to work during his time at Sunderland, and by that time Short refused to fund new signings even though the Black Cats were floundering in the Championship, with the club managing to bring in only four loan players and a free transfer that month.
Coleman said: "It was going to take us two, three or four windows maybe, to turn it around.
"We needed to get a lot of players out, a lot of players in - but you can only do that if you have the backing of the chairman.
"I never met the chairman. We got in in November, by the middle of January we had lost five of the starting eleven players.
"We were in desperate need anyway to add to what we got, but we got no money. Not even for loans.
"He completely left us out in the cold and I was sad about that."
After leaving Sunderland, Coleman took charge of Hebei China Fortune in June 2018 but was sacked in May last year and has not taken a managerial role since.
