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Whatever the merits or otherwise of Laudrup's tenure and of those before him and since, watching the Swans during 2012 and 2013 is without doubt the pinnacle of my 60 years of football watching and no arguments about personalities or who did what will ever change that because that level is unlikely to ever happen again in what's left of my lifetime.
it was only the second time that any Welsh club at beating the Spanish team in the European tournament some achievement. There was a lot more respect for him from the Spanish football fans.
PROUD RECIPIENT OF THE THIRD PLANET SWANS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD.
"Per ardua ad astra"
At the time it felt like we needed to as we’d lost focus on the league and were getting in a bit of trouble. It felt like he had to go, and there was a lot of agreement on that which people seem to forget.
But I’m as convinced now as I was then that we’d have had better chance if progressing in the Cup if we’d kept him.
The problem is not that we replaced Laudrup. He had a long track record of going off the boil in season two and falling out with club owners. He was entirely on schedule with us.
The problem is that we replaced him with an egotistical amateur and gave him free reign to start ripping up everything good about the way we played.
Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back.
I have to agree here, for me best football of 35 years watching the swans. I remember being disappointed at the time, but reading here that we were being walked in to relegation, I just checked up on the results preceding his sacking. On bbc it says when we appointed Monk, swans were 2 points off the relegation and had lost 6 in 8. Looking at the results, they included Man U, Spurs, Man City Chelsea and Everton. OK we had got results in lots of those games, but we were also in the middle of the Europa cup. Didn’t Birmingham get relegated the year they were in it? This could have been a distraction.
So if it didn’t end well, and we were looking poor, I think there were mitigating circumstances.
For me I will remember with great fondness Michael Laudrup time with us, it was a shame it ended.
Michael Laudrup's dismissal as manager of Swansea City in February 2014 was due a conflict of interest with his agent taking a cut from transfers, according to El Mundo.
The newspaper reports that that Laudrup's agent Bayram Tutumlu pocketed €4.3 million (£3.6m, $4.6m) from seven signings made through him by Swansea between 2012 and 2014.
Tutumlu charged a high commission percentage, to be paid from the total agent fees, when players that Laudrup requested were signed by the South Wales club.
El Mundo, using information taken from an article published on Danish newspaper Politiken, one of their partners, claims that Tutumlu agreed a contract with an unnamed Spanish agency and earned €1.6m (£1.35m, $1.7m) from the transfer of Alejandro Pozuelo from Betis in July 2013.
The Spanish playmaker, now at Belgian club Genk, joined Swansea on a three-year contract for an undisclosed fee.
When Swansea discovered the secret dealing, they sacked Laudrup and also severed ties with Tutumlu due to the conflict of interest.
El Mundo reports that on Feb. 13, 2014, a letter obtained by Football Leaks from an unnamed Swansea director to the League Managers' Association stated that: "We believe that if BT [Bayram Tutumlu] was not involved in a player's transfer, ML [Michael Laudrup] would reject the signing. We continue to investigate."
At the time he was sleep walking us into relagation .He was far to chilled out for his own good .But we had an awesome team playing some wonderful stuff under Mike .It was a cryng shame it ended the way it did
Prosser the Tosser dwells on Phil's bum hole like a rusty old hemorrhoid ,fact
You Greedy Bastards Get Out Of OUR Club!
Yep. Sadly his grinding his way to a good league position (and it was) blinded many to what was going on.
I get loads wrong on here (and in life generally), but I’m proud I moaned like feck about the lack of style under Monk at the time. It’s my greatest ever achievement! I hated watching us camped on the edge of our 18 yd box that season. That’s when we changed from having belief we could take the game to anyone, to being submissive underdogs.
Laudrup wanted Aubameyang that suited the fast free flowing play; unfortunately Aubameyang wanted to play Champions League and went to Dortmund. So Bony it was. Would Bony have been such a success if Michu had not gotten injured?!
Question is why was Michu run into the ground when Bony was available.
There's no reason why they couldn't have played together. If memory serves Michu scored more goals when he played in midfield anyway. The rarity of occasions when the two of them played at the same time was one of the big disappointments of Laudrup's second season.
Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back.
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