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What type of manager do we want?

I’d be happy never to hear the words “the Swansea way” ever again. It’s a millstone around the club’s neck.

We've been at the new stadium now for 20 seasons. In those 20 seasons, I reckon we've played exciting, attacking, passing football in the following:

2 under Martinez
2 under Rodgers
1 under Laudrup (with some notable performances in his second season)
1 under Potter

Can't think of many more
 
Anyone who knows how to get a team to attack with purpose, and who isn't a slave to the great god statistics.
 
A manager who encourages pace, by god we are missing that. Who encourages players to express themselves and says don't be afraid to make a mistake if an intended incisive forward pass goes astray.

Who encourages players to actually try and beat a man one -on -one. Cut out the pass, pass, pass with no purpose, the sideways, forward, stop, back, sideways turgid boring play. Get accurate crosses in from the by-line, to play to the strengths of a decent target man. Counter attack at speed. Don't fanny about at the back.

Even route one football occasionally from a keeper to striker - remember the Fabianski to Ayew goal against Sunderland was it ? A midfield with bite (I like Franco) and guile (Cullen is a 10 for me). And encourage creativity in Grimes. I'll stop now 😂.

But besides a fresh Managerial approach, we need a decent transfer window, incl. trying out young talent from our Academy and looking for potential in lower divisions. And look how we got Angel for goodness sake, I know he wasn't scouted directly but was spotted nevertheless. And what exciting overlapping-play then with our wingers.

In short - let's just survive this season and then get away from the absolute shite play we've had for years now. Forget the Swansea Way, it went after Laudrup, maybe Potter.

Btw also - I reckon Williams has lost the dressing room, and this well before Christmas...I know the players deserve it sometimes but the public bollockings he gives does nothing to help. Save the real venom for behind closed doors. They also play to his plan so it's not all down to them.

Time to go Luke, I think at the end of the season
 
Ronald's problem is that he's very inconsistent and when he's bad he's abysmal. Although I do wonder whether he'd be better with more threat around him.

All that said, he's been involved in 7 of our 30 goals this season so almost a quarter of them have been down to him.

Ronald - 1 goal, 6 assists in 27 games
Eom - 0 goals, 1 assist in 19
MPH - 2 goals, 3 assists in 23
Bianchini - 2 goals, 0 assists in 21
Vipotnik - 4 goals, 0 assists in 25
Cullen - 8 goals, 1 assist in 24
Not convinced with Ronald to be honest, I think he's a poor investment at this level.
I think we might get a tune out of Vipotnik mind given time.

Cullen cost us nothing but development money and would have commanded a decent fee if we had chose to sell, the other's (apart from MPH who isn't ours) again are poor investments imho.

Ronald, Bianchini and Eom, probably a shade north of four million pounds combined, add in Tymon ,Pedestrian, Fisher and Yates and you get some perspective as to where we find ourselves at the moment in time...
 
There was a point where the Swansea way of possession based football was unusual in the British game making us different. Teams didn't know what to do against us. Now loads of teams pass out from the back and try and play a possession game and therefore more teams have worked out ways to counteract it. Not that we play it anywhere near as well as we used to. I'd be happy to see a different approach.

This is one of the best posts I've read on here in ages.

What I'd also add to this is that because hardly anyone else was trying to play football in the way that we were, we could attract players who were perfectly suited to our style but surplus to requirements elsewhere.

Now, every team in the country is after cultured ball players because they're essentially the norm.

For all the talk of our owners spending money, the most prominent players from our rise were basically other teams rejects, journeymen or plucked from nowhere.. Leon, Tate, Monk, Dyer, Routledge, Rangel, Williams, Taylor, etc.

I suppose you also have to remember that harping back to 2007 today is the equivalent of holding onto something then that happened to us in 1989. Football has changed immeasurably and we need to accept that.
 
Not convinced with Ronald to be honest, I think he's a poor investment at this level.
I think we might get a tune out of Vipotnik mind given time.

Cullen cost us nothing but development money and would have commanded a decent fee if we had chose to sell, the other's (apart from MPH who isn't ours) again are poor investments imho.

Ronald, Bianchini and Eom, probably a shade north of four million pounds combined, add in Tymon ,Pedestrian, Fisher and Yates and you get some perspective as to where we find ourselves in at the moment.

I don't disagree with you on Ronald necessarily and I'm certainly not a huge fan of him. But he's been one of our better signings in recent years. Which probably says it all.
 
We've been at the new stadium now for 20 seasons. In those 20 seasons, I reckon we've played exciting, attacking, passing football in the following:

2 under Martinez
2 under Rodgers
1 under Laudrup (with some notable performances in his second season)
1 under Potter

Can't think of many more
And the Potter one is arguable.
 
I did hesitate but I was convinced by 'that' goal against Manchester City and how exciting Dan James was to watch that season.
Could argue it was a criminal waste of talent that season.
 
Could argue it was a criminal waste of talent that season.

I think for a relatively young manager coming into a relegated club that was shredding players like nobodies business, Potter did okay.

James hadn't played a game for us and took a while to get up and running.
 
I think for a relatively young manager coming into a relegated club that was shredding players like nobodies business, Potter did okay.

James hadn't played a game for us and took a while to get up and running.
Didn’t he just come back from a loan spell at Shrewsbury who didn’t like him?
 
Didn’t he just come back from a loan spell at Shrewsbury who didn’t like him?

Yes I think so and he was very raw for a while..I'm pretty sure it took him until Christmas to really get going.

So Potter certainly didn't have a ready made Daniel James at his disposal.

And even McBurnie hadn't played much at this level before that season either.

Had those players not had the seasons they had (and I don't think Russ or Williams would have stuck with James), the ramifications for the club could have been massive
 

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