{"id":83448,"date":"2023-06-25T06:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T05:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=83448"},"modified":"2023-06-24T19:49:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T18:49:49","slug":"winter-departure-confirmed-but-cold-club-statement-tells-you-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2023\/06\/25\/winter-departure-confirmed-but-cold-club-statement-tells-you-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter departure confirmed but cold club statement tells you much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The club confirmed the departure of CEO Julian Winter yesterday afternoon with what could well be the shortest departure statement in history &#8211; certainly one that many will read into that the departure was anything but amicable.<\/p>\n<p>It has been widely speculated and reported over the past couple of months that Winter was on his way and of course we should not forget the weird statement from Andy Coleman a few weeks back where he criticised the speculation that was &#8216;out there&#8217; concerning both Winter and Josh Marsh.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='01NogI4-Q_59Di58byCVJQ' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1234483152' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'01NogI4-Q_59Di58byCVJQ',sig:'Udi7Nf_6l-ImAu6mYD0BpV_IQU0FW9QaCSgaq0xvfK4=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1234483152',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>At that time you would be forgiven for thinking that the two parties were working towards a dignified exit for the CEO who joined the club three years ago following the departure of Trevor Birch.<\/p>\n<p>Those thoughts though would have been dismissed totally yesterday with the club statement being blunt and to the point with it reading &#8220;Swansea City can confirm the departure of chief executive Julian Winter with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The club would like to thank Julian for his efforts over three seasons in the role and wish him well for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-seven words was all it took to confirm the departure of such a high profile role at the club and tells you much about how much the relationship between Winter and the majority owners had deteriorated over the course of time.<\/p>\n<p>We can always guess and speculate why that may be but the January window will not have helped and it is clear that the new investors &#8211; Andy Coleman, Nigel Morris and the soon to be announced Brett Cravatt &#8211; are keen on completely revamping the set up of the club and that obviously seems to be probably the biggest reason for the departure of Winter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='gtrAaEv2SLJLsVxsclK1LQ' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1252672043' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'gtrAaEv2SLJLsVxsclK1LQ',sig:'mbDENasDKB5yYskQFM592leTDmxRgtBSe6JXoDYBodM=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1252672043',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>With Paul Watson seemingly already involved in the appointment of Michael Duff as the manager this week, Winter&#8217;s time at Swansea was always going to be limited but it is still quite sad that the club could not even find slightly more words on a Saturday afternoon to announce his departure.\u00a0 \u00a0 The parting of the waves on this occasion was certainly not a smooth one.<\/p>\n<p>Watson&#8217;s appointment is expected to be made official on Monday or Tuesday next week although his influence over the managerial appointment is probably clear to see with the only hold up to his &#8220;official&#8221; appointment you would assume at this point being the need to sign things off with whatever settlement agreement has been reached with Winter.<\/p>\n<p>The Swans Trust were slightly more detailed in their goodbye to Winter where they said they were &#8220;saddened&#8221; to &#8216;learn recently&#8217; that he had departed which confirms what we all know that whilst today was the club announcement Winter&#8217;s departure had been some time before.<\/p>\n<p>The Trust added &#8220;We are disappointed for Julian in how speculation about his future was shared widely prior to today\u2019s official announcement, and whilst we know Julian is an experienced and tenacious leader who will manage it with dignity, this level of public speculation cannot have been pleasant for him or his family to experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very grateful for the role that Julian has played and the club will be poorer without him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The last words there of the Trust are not something that anybody can say for certainty but Winter&#8217;s job was not an easy one at the club but there will be a very wide range of views as to the success that he had in those roles.<\/p>\n<p>However, the club remains bigger than any one man so whilst the Winter door has closed, the Watson door will be opening and now we look to him, Coleman and Duff as the men to take the club forward.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83449\" src=\"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Winter-Goes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Winter-Goes.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Winter-Goes-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Winter-Goes-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Winter-Goes-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Winter-Goes-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Winter-Goes-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Winter-Goes-1068x601.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The club confirmed the departure of CEO Julian Winter yesterday afternoon with what could well be the shortest departure statement in history &#8211; certainly one that many will read into that the departure was anything but amicable. It has been widely speculated and reported over the past couple of months that Winter was on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203],"tags":[577,1509],"class_list":["post-83448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","tag-julian-winter","tag-the-2023-2024-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}