Phil SumblerIn most professions if you want a job, you apply for the ones that interest you. Then you undertake some level of interview and selection process and then if you are lucky you get the job that you apply for.
That is how it tends to work in most industries but it seems that football is significantly different as we read this morning the news that Leroy Lita would be open to a return to Swansea in a coaching role.
I find it very odd that a player can just come out and make these statements when they fancy a role. You would understand this more if it was say Angel Rangel or Nathan Dyer but for Lita – who scored the grand total of TWO goals for the club – it sounds like a simplistic case of the press giving him column inches and him fancying subsidising his bank balance with a new role.
In an interview with Football League World, the former Swans striker was asked about moving to a former club in a coaching role and clearly the Swans were above Reading in his estimation “Everyone always says Reading but I didn’t really enjoy it there. I didn’t really get on with the people upstairs and some of the staff that were there at the time.
“I did enjoy being at Swansea. Loved everybody there. It’s a good club with good people and I got on with every single person there, so maybe there.”
Let’s be clear here that if Leroy Lita is the best option for the Swans in a coaching role then of course we should consider a move for him but let’s also be frank here in that speaking to a media outlet with a “come and get me” type of plea is not going to be the way to go about it.
