What now for our club? | Vital Football

What now for our club?

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keith margam

Vital Football Legend
Big changes are on the horizon at Swansea after we failed in the play-offs for the second year running.
Our Head-Coach has only a year left on his contract and is wanted by Spurs, West Brom and Crystal Palace. With all the flak coming from “fans” on Swans forums it won’t take much to persuade him to move on. What’s easily forgotten is that he’s had to work with one hand tied behind his back because of zero support from the owners, and he’s had to play a system that could get results with the players available.
We’ve played all season without a recognised striker and we’ve dropped numerous points in matches through lack of goals. What if the owners had sanctioned £5m for a striker and we had bought Ivan Toney instead of Brentford? We would now be back in the PL for sure.
Roberts and Grimes have one year left on their contracts and are ripe for plucking by other clubs. With parachute payments finished our owners will look to sell anything that moves in the coming weeks.
Woodman, Guehi and Hourihane are loan players and have departed for better things. Seventeen goal star man Ayew is out of contract and will also be gone.
There are difficult times ahead for our club without badly needed investment.
 
This situation with Cooper needs sorting first and foremost. Is he leaving or staying? He's got 1 year left, surely he wants an extension or to move on? If we value him then we extend his contract but there's no news on it, have we offered him a deal and he's stalling or haven't we offered him anything?
 
Is he waiting on Palace to decide if they want him?
If so, and they pick someone else, we’re stuck with him seeing out his contract knowing his head has been turned and his heart not in the job.
However, it’s all speculation until the club make a statement.
 
Our 110th season since formation is looming, our 4th consecutive season in the Championship, and we are as insecure as ever under our parsimonious owners from over the pond.
We are about to lose our whole first team coaching set up to Championship rivals, recently relegated Fulham, and the silence from the club is deafening. With pre-season training starting first week in July, just over a week away, our managerial situation is still in limbo.
In the annual Championship merry-go-round Fulham’s manager Scott Parker has gone to Bournemouth, Barnsley’s manager Valerien Ismael has gone to West Brom and the Swans Steve Cooper is on the verge of leaving the club after narrowly missing out on promotion twice in his two seasons in charge.
No surprise then for Swans fans, who have become accustomed to disappointment since relegation, as we know that anybody that does well for us inevitably moves on to better things.
Unfortunately we’ve just squandered our last chance to bounce back, with the boost of parachute payments finished.
A minimal investment by our owners on a recognised striker last season and we would more than likely be looking forward to playing Premier League football now. Instead, our manager is leaving to the first bidder, our best player and leading scorer has gone on a free transfer, and there are other players likely to follow.
 
Lincoln manager Michael Appleton has reportedly been sounded out to take over at Swansea.
Steve Cooper has become odds on favourite for the Crystal Palace job since their deal for Lucien Fabre collapsed.
Appleton took Lincoln to the L1 Play-Off Final recently, narrowly losing out 2-1 to Blackpool at Wembley. “In the first half we passed the ball square too many times and backwards. That’s one thing I didn’t want when I came to the club.”
 
The Swans are in complete disarray with 12 days to go to the start of the season. Steve Cooper has already left the club with a year still left on his contract and now his lined-up replacement, assistant at QPR John Eustace, has changed his mind at the last minute. QPR have offered him more money, and he’s decided to rejected the job offer after previously agreeing to come.
How embarrassing. Not only that but we hear our captain Matt Grimes is finalising a move to Championship rivals Fulham this week in another half-price clearance deal worth a paltry £4 million. We’ve already lost our top scorer, our best defender, and our goalkeeper, and now our captain and key midfield player is off to a rival for peanuts.
What is going on? The puppet chairman Winter and the Yankee owners are an embarrassment and a disgrace the way they are running our club, and are making us a laughing stock.
 
Of all the candidates he seems to be the best fit.
He’ll give the fans what they want, our passing game back and possession based football.
Boring defensive football is out of the window.
 
Such a relief. We might just enjoy us playing again now. Lots of work to be done in the transfer window now though, we look very weak.
 
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