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The length of the deal doesn't matter as much as the value of it. For example, a four year deal for £150k a year costs the same overall as a three year deal on £200k. Could well have been structured that way for tax purposes.

Tony Mowbray is a proven manager at this level and was sacked three months into his last job. *Every* managerial appointment is taking a chance.

The success rate for managers with experience vs managers with no experience seems to be largely the same. If Matos is going to be a success then the likelihood is that he will be one no matter how many games he's currently been in charge of. All the best coaches have to start somewhere, and...

And he went to Southampton and Rangers and did all the stupid shit again. I think that's why, despite serious competition, he's a contender for worst Swansea manager of my lifetime. All along he knew how to get the team playing better. He just refused to out of sheer arrogance and a need to...

People keep banging on about that run in like it was somehow a vindication of Martin's processes instead of the final damning proof that they didn't work. We changed from what he was trying to do and played a way that people had been begging for for months and we immediately looked like a...

He is an embarassingly poor manager. Was poor for us, was poor for Southampton, was poor for Rangers. Anyone even remotely contemplating he possibility that bringing him back might be a good idea needs sectioning.

You'd think. Yalcouye's natural position may conflict with Widell's though. Do we push MW forward in the meantime? Lots of variables.

I would say that all bets are off as far as our midfield is concerned IF Hellberg is as "all action" as some people believe. Hard to say who will get a look in.

It clearly started slipping before that. The decision to replace Laudrup with Monk on a permanent basis, even after GM led us on a run of something like two wins in thirteen games was an indication of problems at the top. It accelerated after the takeover no doubt. Jenkins was left with the...

In defence of our wingers, the comments earlier in the thread about the style of play and the "420 passes" stuff is a big part of their problem IMO. Cast your minds back to when we had Dyer and Routledge on the wing. I'd wager that both of them got the ball on average 10-15 yards further up the...

When I was a kid I went to every home game I could. Even Welsh cup matches in front of about 250 people. I think I missed one home league game (and almost no cup ones) in a spell of about 15-20 years up until Covid. This season I only bothered with Man City in the cup, have already missed one in...

It was only partly down to performances. Issues off the pitch and the whole Tutumlu thing had strained relations. Similar sort of thing happened with Sousa. Monk was appointed because Jenkins thought he was malleable. Big mistake.

I'd rather shut the club down and go and do something else on Saturdays than have the bearded ball bag back.

It's Mamma Mia tonight, Abba Voyage tomorrow.

I don't recall Dimi ever being abusive. He was however fucking boring, which is considerably worse in my view. Post after post, paragraph after paragraph explaining in tedious detail precisely why he was right and everyone else was wrong.

The same could have been said about Curt during his time on the coaching staff, yet KOL gets a slagging and he didn't. Swans fans eh?

There's been no shortage of resources pumped in since we got relegated. It was more than £10m a year even with Levien and co. We reached the playoffs in two out of the first three seasons following our relegation. The single biggest mistake we made was allowing Russell Martin to stink the place...

Reading it the same way as you. They're clearly optimistic about filling the job during the international window. If they are the kind of people that we think (maybe just hope) that they are then they should have a selection of alternatives available for every meaningful position at the club...

Your insistence that you somehow "could see it a mile off" would be a lot more believable if past experience hadn't tought me that you are precisely the kind of chap who insisted to the end that Russell Martin just hadn't been backed enough.

He wanted to play with three central midfielders and no #10. That was duller to watch than a Rugby game so he's had to change it. Of the two I think Eom is perhaps better suited to playing as a #10, but I'd take Widell at a push. Widell to me seems like a Ntcham type player. A charging #8...