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It seemed to take Middlesborough 2 weeks to get Hellberg & his staff officially confirmed so this would give a baseline how long the process takes

Also I think since brexit the terms/conditions that work permits are granted have changed

Would have been a great appointment few years back for us He’s gone under the radar a little bit- doing well at Derby getting them into the playoff spots and also got both Blackburn & Birmingham into the play off places last few seasons If I remember correctly there was plenty of people...

I appreciate he needs time - but our next 5 matches we need to be picking up as many points as we can to ensure we aren’t dragged into a relegation battle post new year. They are winnable games against teams we should be beating. We have a tough fixture list in January/February and a poor...

Someone on twitter says Matos has done his coaching badges with Allen recently at FAW so maybe not such a odd link

I would guess we are going to keep O’Leary & Margeston. The other 2 brought in last summer (Spearman & O’Dea) I think will leave as they were brought in as direct assistants to Sheehan Margetson has always been thought highly of & he seems to have done a good job with our first choice keepers...

I wonder if we’ve done a u-turn on Matos and decided to look elsewhere. If we were close to appointing Matos surely the statement would read that o’Dea would be interim for the weekend. The fact they’ve left it quite open ended suggests we may not have decided on the new manager yet

Hit the nail with this one. We had already spoken with Hellberg before sacking Sheehan and were confident of getting him. People thinking we should have 4 or 5 options as a backup of the same quality are deluded. For all we know Matos may be 5th choice and we’ve been knocked back by all...

Interesting to read that he did his coaching badges with the FAW in 2024 - same time as Sheehan I believe I would guess our paths have crossed during this time and this is where the initial connection has been made. Lots of risk but I think his knowledge of the British game & championship is...

Looks like we are trying to push through to get this announced for the weekend. I would assume he won’t be in the dugout for Saturday unless we can fast track a visa.

The club during the Martinez days was completely different to now. The expectations were fairly low (I know we got to the playoffs with Jackett but we weren’t expected to be contenders). Our most recent managers at the time were Kenny Jackett (previously an assistant at QPR), Brian Flynn (only...

There’s been little media attention regarding Rodger’s which makes think he just isn’t interested Hi next move will probably be the Middle East on £5m a year His last 4 jobs suggest his wages are way out of any championship clubs budget

Lots of Swans fans on twitter arguing that we are prepared to offer £1million for Matos which we should have just offered to Hellberg instead to persuade him I think people seem to miss the fact that Middlesborough are a much better prospect than us currently. Bigger club, better league...

One way to look at it - if he continues to do this well with Maritimo and gets them promoted this year the opinion of the majority of our fans would be different on him Maybe someone at the club has recognised his ability and we are taking a chance on him before his reputation takes us beyond...

He may turn out to be the next Roberto Martinez for us. I don’t think there’s anything in his managerial stats/data to suggest he’s going to be good or bad so he must have impressed our decision makers with something else we don’t know about The only people that can probably give us a good...

I hope we take our time and search for someone of high quality and potential and not rush into a decision to appease fans The next manager odds list is a depressing read. But think there’s a lot of potential if we look across the continent. We’ve spread the net far and wide with last few...

Hope the usernames weren’t AgentDimi, Dr Parnasuss, E20, Parlay

I think he’s had a 4 year spell with Liverpool a few years back so not sure if that would help with work permit?

Not sure I agree but I take your point. Allen, Naughton & Obafemi were poor players in Martins tenure I think our strength in depth is massively improved. Look at our bench under Martin & then look at our bench this season - Eom, Yalcouye, Idah, Widell, Ronald are much better options that we...

I’m not advocating on him returning But I do think he would get more from this squad than Sheehan has done based on how he managed our 22/23 season squad which was much poorer than our current team, in my opinion