{"id":89770,"date":"2024-01-05T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T14:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=89770"},"modified":"2024-01-05T14:23:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T14:23:19","slug":"swansea-city-confirm-luke-williams-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2024\/01\/05\/swansea-city-confirm-luke-williams-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea City confirm Luke Williams appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swansea City have confirmed the appointment of Luke Williams via a Tweet from their official channel.<\/p>\n<p>The Tweet simply said &#8220;Luke, you are our gaffer&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Luke, you are our gaffer \ud83e\udda2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vmbC52ZnU5\">pic.twitter.com\/vmbC52ZnU5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Swansea City AFC (@SwansOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwansOfficial\/status\/1743274904462704952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The club&#8217;s official website confirmed the news shortly afterwards with the official release commenting &#8220;The 43-year-old joins the Swans on a three-and-a-half year contract from Notts County, having led the Magpies to promotion to League Two following a superb National League campaign last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His assistant, Ryan Harley, and first-team coach analyst George Lawtey, also make the move from Meadow Lane as part of Williams\u2019 coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will be in charge for Saturday\u2019s FA Cup third-round tie against Morecambe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the appointment, Club Chairman Andy Coleman said\u00a0As I have said previously, we have undertaken a diligent and detailed process to find our next head coach. I have been fortunate to spend a lot of time with Luke recently. I have looked him in the eye and know that we can trust Luke to be a coach and leader who is aligned with our vision for Swansea City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He fits right into the mould of other talented and ambitious young managers who have succeeded here. I am confident our supporters will be excited by and proud of this Luke Williams-led Swansea City team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whilst new Head coach Williams added\u00a0\u201cI want to bring goals, a lot of goals, and I have a fairly good track record with that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to be mean as well. A one-dimensional team is okay, but a real team is a team that attacks with the same vigour with which they defend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a tall order, we have to strive for something fantastic and we begin that task now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Notts County we managed to score the most goals in the country last season and we conceded the fourth least.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like my teams to try to attack a lot and to try to score a lot. At my previous club we had a great season and managed to get over the line somehow in the play-offs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.swanseacity.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cc_2000x1125\/public\/2024-01\/Paul%20Watson%20Luke%20Williams%20Andy%20Coleman.jpg?h=20fc4d32&amp;itok=WqN8t-9H\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Swansea City Football Club<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swansea City have confirmed the appointment of Luke Williams via a Tweet from their official channel. The Tweet simply said &#8220;Luke, you are our gaffer&#8221; Luke, you are our gaffer \ud83e\udda2 pic.twitter.com\/vmbC52ZnU5 &mdash; Swansea City AFC (@SwansOfficial) January 5, 2024 The club&#8217;s official website confirmed the news shortly afterwards with the official release commenting &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49],"tags":[774,1733,554],"class_list":["post-89770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","tag-luke-williams","tag-notts-county","tag-swansea-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89770","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=89770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}