Rob Davies
Russell Martin has practically confirmed that left bsck Ryan Manning will leave at the end of his contract this summer after talks between the player and club have broken down.
The defender signed from QPR in October 2020 and has become a mainstay in the team especially since Martin’s arrival but despite regular situations around his contract situations it seems nothing can or will be resolved.
It’s another blow for fans after a miserable season with little hope of anything positive to come in the last 14 games and a January window without a single signing.
It all paints a rather bleak picture and with Joel Latibeaudiere in a similar situation it does seem like a rebuild will be required this summer – something the manager says is already being discussed.
Making another dig at those who make the decisions at the club, Martin told Wales Online: “I love Ryan, he loves it here, but we’ve allowed the contract to go to the last year, or not address it properly in the summer, so we’re at where we’re at.
“I don’t think there’s any point in keeping talking about that. He’s not going to sign a contract here.
“He’s given us everything he’s got, which is all we can ask for. He’s got the right to go and see what’s out there for him in the summer.
“We’re exploring other options for that for next season already. It’s what we have to do, we have to be ready. It’ll be a real shame
“The reality is now, you get past January and people think he may leave in January and you readdress the situation, but I don’t think anything’s changed from his end or his agent’s end.
“We have to avoid that in the future. It is what it is really.”
Swansea are only doing “as well” as they are thanks to the players Martin would have discarded. If we lose Ryan and he has a hand in selecting a replacement it will end up with another player with no attaching intent. Wish him good luck but Martin is now such a negative influence on our club that the sooner he goes the better for all concerned. It was an experiment that has failed and almost all clubs in the Championship no exactly how to thwart us.
Manning to leave after running down his contract … hardly news, is it!
It’s a worry losing Manning obviously but the biggest worry is how do we go about getting a replacement given the way Martin selects players and the way the Americans back him.
That goes for other positions as well .Hard to be positive at the moment.
Hard to run a club successfully unless you have a definite policy and agreement between all levels of management .Just look how long Man utd have taken to find Den Haag !
News we all knew anyway, his signature requires additional funding which the Yanks have shown they will not provide. We had better get used to the decline of our team there is more to come. After the transfer window and regular bad press it is hard to continue to support my beloved team because it means supporting a group of greedy Yanks who thought they could live on the proceeds of Swansea’s past financial glories. Now they realise they may have to invest, it seems they would rather not! – Having owners with other sporting interests that also need investment is proving to be our down fall. We are a club they have no affinity with and thousands of miles away from their base in the USA. Sadly Ryan is only the start, fab player who should be rewarded for his efforts. Whittaker was brought back to our club because they were not going to buy another player and with Plymouth only paying a small percentage of his wages, it was a small financial hole to fill. With the Sunday bootsale now closing, I guess the loss of revenue will mean Martin’s salary may need to be looked at – perhaps that is the delay in a renewed contract? lol
Sorry, Jeff, it’s not Russell Martin that’s the negative influence on the club, it’s the majority owners. Every football coach wants to be attack minded, and we are the fourth top scoring team in the Championship. It is our defensive game-management that is a problem. The owners were never going to increase the value of contracts, not for any amount. And, the worrying thing is that Martin might think he has replacements in mind, but the owners will not spend any money on those replacements. We have lost valuable players since this time last year, and we will continue to lose more. You can’t blame Martin for the fact that the best players are sold and few if any quality replacements are brought in. The team gets weaker with every transfer window. That’s down to the majority owners. What coach could be successful under such conditions? I think next year, if the owners continue in this way, will be a relegation season – we won’t be strong enough for the Championship. This is not the manager’s fault. How can he ‘build’ when the team is continuously weakened? Soon we will run out of good young players to sell. Hopefully, the owners will sell the club, but we will be in League Two by then, while Wrexham are in the Championship play-offs. Russell Martin is now making several digs at the majority owners – he is, perhaps, hoping that they will sack him. But, they will not – they won’t pay the compensation and they want Martin as the scapegoat for lack of success.
Again I say, Jeff, this is not Martin’s fault. How would Steve Cooper cope without Ayew and in these conditions of constantly losing players? How would Klopp cope?
I, like many, support Russell Martin. It’s a pity that the majority owners don’t.
Oh for christ sake get rid of that wining waste is space Martin and half the team can go with him!
They are not good enough for League One!
Penny pinching owners who don’t care, it’s like Fawlty Towers down there, Martin would make a good Manuel!
If they don’t beat Stoke tonight he should be sacked in the morning!
Play offs, ha ha. Another nothing season for us loyal fans!
Why dont tbey sell the rest of the good players bunch idiots running club. Is matin the problem or owners or both.r
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