It is fair to say that the New Year has not started quietly as far as Swansea City is concerned with speculation over the future of manager Luke Williams taking over the majority of the Swans social media discussions.<\/p>\n
Hot on the heels of the embarrassment of yesterday’s 4-0 defeat at Fratton Park today has become the Luke Williams show which is no doubt fuelled by some very strange press interviews in the past 96 hours, none of which\u00a0 have done anything to extinguish the links between him and the vacant managerial role in the West Midlands.<\/p>\n
Speculation has been rife today over whether West Brom have made an approach to the representatives of Williams (the general consensus was that they had), whether talks were lined up (the wide belief here was that they were taking place tomorrow) and in the afternoon the discussion turned to the fact that Williams was ready to resign his position to make the move to West Brom easier for himself.\u00a0 \u00a0Those three things combined were enough to send discussion points to a frenzy as many tried to pick their way through the speculation and establish the facts.<\/p>\n
Now I have always been a firm believer in that there is never smoke without fire and there is little doubt in my mind that some level of discussions have taken place between representatives of the Baggies and representatives of Luke Williams.\u00a0 \u00a0How detailed those discussions are nobody really knows (other than those present to actually be part of them) but these things don’t get as widely discussed as they have been without something of substance sitting behind them.<\/p>\n
However, as the Swans Twitter world went into some level of meltdown there were some interesting developments taking place closer to the Hawthorns as local journalists to the Baggies moved to distance Williams from the vacancy that opened up last week.\u00a0 First, you had Lewis Cox from the Express & Start stating that “Luke Williams is not in the frame for the WBA job” before he was joined by BBC West Midlands commentator Steve Hermon who said “Luke Williams might be the odds-on bookies favourite for the Albion job but it\u2019s my understanding that WBA <\/span>aren\u2019t pursuing the Swansea head coach for their vacant role.”<\/span><\/p>\n My understanding is Swansea\u2019s Luke Williams is not in the frame for the vacant #wba<\/a> job. Club in no rush to make appointment. — Lewis Cox (@LewisCox_star) January 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
\ud83c\udfa7 Latest podcast from last night is shorter but covers quite a bit as first one since Corberan\u2019s exit. \ud83c\udfa7\ud83d\udc47 https:\/\/t.co\/hxiL6EvXSE<\/a><\/p>\n