Shawn Maloney current Wigan Athletic manager has entered the running for the new Swans head coach role. He is currently in second spot beneath Chris Davies with the bookies. His playing career was decent but it’s his managerial competency we have to look at.

Maloney returned to Wigan in January 2023, and has won just seventeen of his forty five games in charge. His football is possession based, and like any manager coming to Swansea they will want to continue that way of playing, the question many are now asking is ‘Do we actually have the players anymore’ ?

Wigan supporters seem to like his match day plans and are far from complimentary on the subject of where their club is going. He is contracted at Wigan until June 2026, so that’s an issue. Ben Goodburn is the current Chairman and has honorary life President, Dave Whelan to lean on, another tough negotiator to contend with.

Wigan are sitting in fourteenth place in League One.

Maloney is forty one in January and if the betting reflects the near truth he would most certainly jump at the chance to manage the Swans.

Swans Indy view : Maloney won’t be a welcome choice by the majority of Swans fans. He is most certainly going to be cheaper. However, he is another League One manager. That’s a risk in itself, for any doubters see Michael Duff. You can’t blame Chairman, Andrew Coleman for looking wider than Chris Davies, the prospect of doing business with Daniel Levy and the finances he will want for Davies really will require some decent investment. Negotiations with Levy are never short, he wears down talks and is the master of the low baller. The Swans will be well aware of that.

Is that frightening them away from appointing a real head coach who has the best opportunity to forward the current Swansea City story ?

Time will tell, but where there is speculation there needs to be investigation. That’s what we do best.

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