Friday 16 December 2016 16:12, UK
David Moyes says he will "stand up and fight" for Sunderland's Premier League survival rather than moan about a transfer cap.
Moyes was told this week he will have "very, very limited" funds in January to strengthen a squad depleted by injuries to Lee Cattermole, Paddy McNair, Duncan Watmore and now Jan Kirchhoff.
Sunderland have won three times in the league since the start of November, but Saturday's visit of Watford is their last chance to get off the bottom before Christmas and comes on the back of successive defeats.
Results and off-field upheaval have amounted to a difficult start on Wearside for Moyes, who has admitted the job is "a bigger challenge" than he envisaged when he replaced Sam Allardyce.
But he said: "Obviously what I am going to do is I am going to stand up and stick my chest out and get on with it and
see how we get on. I am going to fight for it and I would expect everybody else at the club to do the same.
"It gives me something to look at and say if we can getting everyone pulling 100 per cent together, if we can use the small squad, the group we have got and say, 'Look, we are in it, this is it, this is what we have got, come on. Pull together'.
"We have got to give 100 per cent in all the games - we can't have it any other way. Whether you are injured or not, patch yourself up, get out.
"And you know sometimes, that can galvanise you as well. Maybe the supporters will see that as well. That's what we have to try to do."
Sunderland need at least a point against Watford to stand a chance of moving off the bottom, and Moyes said: "Psychologically it would be good not to be there.
"It would be good to be moving away from it. Ultimately, it's at the end you need to be away from it, but if we could get away from it now, then it might make it easier."
