Alan Sheehan-Manager for Next Season

[Swans Jack]

Corberon was in post for 26 months, so not quite true. Sheehan's comments about being "aligned" with the club's plans are interesting, hinting at possible tension with Montague.

Alan Sheehan: Swansea City caretaker boss waits to see if plans align with club

Alan Sheehan says he must find out if his plans align with those of Swansea City's owners as he waits to discover whether he will become the club's permanent head coach.

www.bbc.co.uk

This is an important issue to nail down. We can't have the manager and DoF pulling in different directions. Some give and take may be required here.

I also wouldn't say there are tensions. I would say he is in more better position now more than ever to dictate the direction and transfers. I think he was getting at he wants full support and not going through the motions.

 

[A4Jack]

Sheehan is what we were hoping Duff would be. Quick, transitional, pressing football with no nonsense at the back.

But Sheehan has a little bit more charisma and matches it with decent football at the right times. And we've seen it for 18 games playing so a very decent sample.

Hopefully he's the antidote to the Willy and Luke bollocks we've suffered for the past four years and based on what we've seen so far, he could well be.

Give the man the job and if Montague is disagreeing then send him back to Notts County where his visions can build there.

 

[Ringwood]

I wonder if the board are thinking with Modric onboard and any potential influence he could have in his network of potential loan players would the Swede be in a better position to integrate them into our squad than Sheehan.

No doubt at the moment Sheehan has the dressing room but with changes in personal coming this summer are board thinking ahead more than the current situation.

 

[Swans Jack]

I wonder if the board are thinking with Modric onboard and any potential influence he could have in his network of potential loan players would the Swede be in a better position to integrate them into our squad than Sheehan.

No doubt at the moment Sheehan has the dressing room but with changes in personal coming this summer are board thinking ahead more than the current situation.

I'm still asking the question if this is short lived positivity, can it last a whole season? Known of us know, but it would be some statement if they didn't go for Sheehan and almost straight away the new manager would be under pressure. Does the club think we can go up a level with the Swede? Egos might come into play with this and might be the case the new set up wants their own stamp on the club.

 

[bytholwyn]

Sheehan is what we were hoping Duff would be. Quick, transitional, pressing football with no nonsense at the back.

But Sheehan has a little bit more charisma and matches it with decent football at the right times. And we've seen it for 18 games playing so a very decent sample.

Hopefully he's the antidote to the Willy and Luke bollocks we've suffered for the past four years and based on what we've seen so far, he could well be.

Give the man the job and if Montague is disagreeing then send him back to Notts County where his visions can build there.

It isn't just about Montague though is it. We need alignment throughout the club. Our transfer targets for this summer will have been identified over a long period of time, years in some cases. They will have been identified to match a certain playing model. So the question is, can Sheehan make good use of these targets? If not, are his requirements so far out of synch that we have to start again from scratch? Probably not, chances are that there may be players within the cluster if players identified for each position that Venn diagram-like overlap with Sheehan's wish list. For instance, I can see Sheehan being keen on recruiting a Kieffer Moore like centre forward. Would we countenance such a move?

 

[Swans Jack]

It isn't just about Montague though is it. We need alignment throughout the club. Our transfer targets for this summer will have been identified over a long period of time, years in some cases. They will have been identified to match a certain playing model. So the question is, can Sheehan make good use of these targets? If not, are his requirements so far out of synch that we have to start again from scratch? Probably not, chances are that there may be players within the cluster if players identified for each position that Venn diagram-like overlap with Sheehan's wish list. For instance, I can see Sheehan being keen on recruiting a Kieffer Moore like centre forward. Would we countenance such a move?

Question is, what is our playing model? You make good points with them and alignment with their vision. But maybe the board needs to start reading fans comments online. Alot are calling for the end of so called Swansea Way. Pass, Pass, Pass = 0 Results

 

[A4Jack]

Our transfer targets for this summer will have been identified over a long period of time, years in some cases.

Montague arrived a couple of months ago and Coleman was basically using Football Manager through January along with someone who shouldn't be mentioned who was scouting on Fifa full time. This has not been a club that has been planning long term for targets.

They will have been identified to match a certain playing model. So the question is, can Sheehan make good use of these targets?

Which is why the club hired Michael Duff less than two years ago.

For instance, I can see Sheehan being keen on recruiting a Kieffer Moore like centre forward. Would we countenance such a move?

Whilst i wouldn't advocate for Kieffer Moore coming here I don't really see much evidence to suggest that Sheehan will be looking for 7 foot target men in order to make his football more successful anyway?

This all feels like a cross roads. I'm fearful that if we get it wrong and look elsewhere that we'll be back in this never ending circle of sideways passing. And for that reason alone I'm happy to roll the dice on somebody who has PROVEN to deliver 34 points in 18 games in two spells as manager of this club. Without the opportunity to select his own players.

Put a curly moustache on the fella, grow his hair and call him Alain Shezhan from Marseille and people would be all over it.

 

[Skippyjack]

Question is, what is our playing model? You make good points with them and alignment with their vision. But maybe the board needs to start reading fans comments online. Alot are calling for the end of so called Swansea Way. Pass, Pass, Pass = 0 Results

The Swansea way wasn't possession, Rodgers used possession as a defensive mechanism when we went ahead in a match.. Laudrup teams averaged 50 odd % possession for the season.. we had transitional pace on the flanks that would counter attack with precision, we weren't afraid to play a long ball in behind.. we were very much like Forest, quick on the break and a striker up top who'd score goals.. we never used to keep possession 70% in our own half

 

[Swans Jack]

Montague arrived a couple of months ago and Coleman was basically using Football Manager through January along with someone who shouldn't be mentioned who was scouting on Fifa full time. This has not been a club that has been planning long term for targets.

Which is why the club hired Michael Duff less than two years ago.

Whilst i wouldn't advocate for Kieffer Moore coming here I don't really see much evidence to suggest that Sheehan will be looking for 7 foot target men in order to make his football more successful anyway?

This all feels like a cross roads. I'm fearful that if we get it wrong and look elsewhere that we'll be back in this never ending circle of sideways passing. And for that reason alone I'm happy to roll the dice on somebody who has PROVEN to deliver 34 points in 18 games in two spells as manager of this club. Without the opportunity to select his own players.

Put a curly moustache on the fella, grow his hair and call him Alain Shezhan from Marseille and people would be all over it.

That's lst part is spot on:

'' Put a curly moustache on the fella, grow his hair and call him Alain Shezhan from Marseille and people would be all over it.''

The Sean Dyche of the world are not favoured over those with a accent and who could feature in a milk tray advert

 

[Swans Jack]

The Swansea way wasn't possession, Rodgers used possession as a defensive mechanism when we went ahead in a match.. Laudrup teams averaged 50 odd % possession for the season.. we had transitional pace on the flanks that would counter attack with precision, we weren't afraid to play a long ball in behind.. we were very much like Forest, quick on the break and a striker up top who'd score goals.. we never used to keep possession 70% in our own half

No I do under stand that it wasn't just passing. I was pointing out what many want to see and what we have seen under Williams and Martin etc.

 

[Skippyjack]

No I do under stand that it wasn't just passing. I was pointing out what many want to see and what we have seen under Williams and Martin etc.

I know, I'm just explaining what we actually did do.. we never just passed it around the back for 90 minutes a game that managers and pundits believed we did..

 

[bytholwyn]

Montague arrived a couple of months ago and Coleman was basically using Football Manager through January along with someone who shouldn't be mentioned who was scouting on Fifa full time. This has not been a club that has been planning long term for targets.

Which is why the club hired Michael Duff less than two years ago.

Whilst i wouldn't advocate for Kieffer Moore coming here I don't really see much evidence to suggest that Sheehan will be looking for 7 foot target men in order to make his football more successful anyway?

This all feels like a cross roads. I'm fearful that if we get it wrong and look elsewhere that we'll be back in this never ending circle of sideways passing. And for that reason alone I'm happy to roll the dice on somebody who has PROVEN to deliver 34 points in 18 games in two spells as manager of this club. Without the opportunity to select his own players.

Put a curly moustache on the fella, grow his hair and call him Alain Shezhan from Marseille and people would be all over it.

I think you do our recruitment team a disservice. Ronald, Franco, Vigouroux, Eom and Widely wouldn't have been recruited without a sophisticated recruitment methodology.

I don't claim to know what Sheehan's thinking is, other than he clearly likes to play the game in the opposition half. Today, as against Blackburn, we had less than 50 per cent possession, but completed more passes than our opponent in their half than they did in ours. A part of the game plan is hitting it long, mainly to the flanks, but also down the middle. The latter tactic isn't working, which isn't surprising when Cullen is up front. But Vipotnik isn't faring much better. So a Moore type striker might be more congruent with Sheehan's game plan. I wouldn't object, as long as we didn't overdo it. But would Montague sanction such a move?

 

[Skippyjack]

I think you do our recruitment team a disservice. Ronald, Franco, Vigouroux, Eom and Widely wouldn't have been recruited without a sophisticated recruitment methodology.

I don't claim to know what Sheehan's thinking is, other than he clearly likes to play the game in the opposition half. Today, as against Blackburn, we had less than 50 per cent possession, but completed more passes than our opponent in their half than they did in ours. A part of the game plan is hitting it long, mainly to the flanks, but also down the middle. The latter tactic isn't working, which isn't surprising when Cullen is up front. But Vipotnik isn't faring much better. So a Moore type striker might be more congruent with Sheehan's game plan. I wouldn't object, as long as we didn't overdo it. But would Montague sanction such a move?

Surely we can find someone more mobile than Moore, but we do have a history of playing with less mobile players up top.. Trundle, Akinfenwa, Scotland, Bony, Beattie, Kuqi, Pintado, Graham, Llroente, Gomis, Piroe.. shame we can't find a Luke Moore type, perfect for counter attacks

 

[Swansea93]

Sheehan said similar comments when asked if he’d take the position until the end of the season, I think he wants assurances he’ll be backed and given time and also I think he’ll be pretty open in telling Montague he isn’t going to be a heavily reliant possession based manager, which at the minute is working wonders, I’d much rather have a manager who’s setting up against teams to exploit their weaknesses rather than massaging his ego for a game of who has the highest stats at all cost.

 

[Swans Jack]

I know, I'm just explaining what we actually did do.. we never just passed it around the back for 90 minutes a game that managers and pundits believed we did..

Did you watch any Williams match this season . Fair points though.