| Informed By Their Mistakes, Swansea Can Now Grow Again 21:10 - May 20 with 6011 views | Nirvana |
http://blog.betbright.com/football/swansea-mistakes-grow/
Excellent article on what has failed us the past few seasons. As always, the truth is Jenkins' reject bin transfer policy. The January window was a good start in correcting this, but we need more quality within the squad. It's that simple.
We have to start seriously looking for the right players with class and then actually sign them. It's not that difficult if done correctly and it is more cost-effective than blowing wads of money on a lot of cheaper options. Eventually it will catch up to us, and we're lucky it wasn't this season. |  | | |  |
| Informed By Their Mistakes, Swansea Can Now Grow Again on 22:42 - May 20 with 5913 views | Starsky |
Very inciteful read that.
My feeling is, if we aren't seen to be strengthening the squad then the likes of Lloriente and Siggy will leave, citing the hierarchy as unambitious. |  |
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| Informed By Their Mistakes, Swansea Can Now Grow Again on 22:49 - May 20 with 5883 views | jack2jack |
| Informed By Their Mistakes, Swansea Can Now Grow Again on 22:42 - May 20 by Starsky |
Very inciteful read that.
My feeling is, if we aren't seen to be strengthening the squad then the likes of Lloriente and Siggy will leave, citing the hierarchy as unambitious. |
Your right there Starsky, especially where Siggy is concerend, he needs to see real intent from the powers that be.Albeit he may leave for Champions League ambitions.We need to be looking to strengthen we can't go through this nonsense every season.As for Llorente he'll probably go anyway,it was only a short term fix, I believe. |  | | |
| Informed By Their Mistakes, Swansea Can Now Grow Again on 09:31 - May 21 with 5662 views | johnlangy |
| Informed By Their Mistakes, Swansea Can Now Grow Again on 22:49 - May 20 by jack2jack |
Your right there Starsky, especially where Siggy is concerend, he needs to see real intent from the powers that be.Albeit he may leave for Champions League ambitions.We need to be looking to strengthen we can't go through this nonsense every season.As for Llorente he'll probably go anyway,it was only a short term fix, I believe. |
I'd be very happy with another short term fix from him for next season. |  | | |
| Informed By Their Mistakes, Swansea Can Now Grow Again on 09:49 - May 21 with 5613 views | longlostjack |
Very good read. Fingers crossed that lessons have been learnt. |  |
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| Informed By Their Mistakes, Swansea Can Now Grow Again on 10:04 - May 21 with 5583 views | SPboy |
What a great read that article is. So many accurate facts and thoughts from a freelancer based in Bath. It could easily have been written by one of the articulate posters on this board ... I wonder where he got his intelligence from, he must have some inside info have to come up with this little gem of a snip:
"reckless unilateral decisions which were taken in the boardroom and which defied the spirit of cooperation which brought them Premier League football in the first place. For the people who led them down this path, this will be that most perfect of lessons: one which has illustrated the error of their ways, but which has ultimately spared them any long-term consequences. Escaping relegation has afforded Swansea’s decision-makers the opportunity of a re-set; the luxury of learning from their mistakes without having to do so from within the Football League." |  | | |
| Informed By Their Mistakes, Swansea Can Now Grow Again on 23:59 - May 21 with 5409 views | Nirvana |
| Informed By Their Mistakes, Swansea Can Now Grow Again on 22:42 - May 20 by Starsky |
Very inciteful read that.
My feeling is, if we aren't seen to be strengthening the squad then the likes of Lloriente and Siggy will leave, citing the hierarchy as unambitious. |
Agreed, Starsky.
And I understand why they would feel that way if the squad remains as is. We need major upgrades in more than a few key areas and it's painfully obvious for all to see.
Another summer dipping into the reject bin and selling off our best players at bargain prices will have us in the Championship. Everyone but Jenkins seems to understand this. | | | |
| Informed By Their Mistakes, Swansea Can Now Grow Again on 01:23 - May 22 with 5345 views | Smellyplumz |
| Informed By Their Mistakes, Swansea Can Now Grow Again on 09:49 - May 21 by longlostjack |
Very good read. Fingers crossed that lessons have been learnt. |
😂😂😂 nice one rog, it's the way you tell em! |  |
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| Informed By Their Mistakes, Swansea Can Now Grow Again on 12:11 - May 22 with 5202 views | DJack |
Can someone please copy and paste the text as this page is blocked at my end.
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| Informed By Their Mistakes, Swansea Can Now Grow Again on 12:17 - May 22 with 5191 views | Oldjack |
| Informed By Their Mistakes, Swansea Can Now Grow Again on 12:11 - May 22 by DJack |
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In the end, it wasn’t even particularly tense. Hull were so abject at Selhurst Park and their collapse came so early, that the watching Swansea players had little to ever fear. They were safe and, realistically, had been so since the moment Kyle Naughton had scored at the Stadium of Light.
At the end of a wretched season, then, a moment of light: Sunderland and Middlesbrough may have been so inept as to have virtually relegated themselves, but the battle with Hull has been very real. Paul Clement and his players have won at Anfield and Selhurst Park in 2017 and have taken a point from Old Trafford. In more recent weeks, their form at the Liberty Stadium has also returned: Everton and Stoke were both beaten and Tottenham looked like they were for 88 impressive minutes.
So, irrespective of others’ failings, this has been very much a success against the odds.
Ordinarily, the value of avoiding relegation is obvious — particular so now, particularly at a time when the value of the broadcasting contract would make Croesus blush. But while Swansea will be financially rewarded like everybody else, perhaps this escape was more ideologically important? After all, they faced down this peril because of reckless unilateral decisions which were taken in the boardroom and which defied the spirit of cooperation which brought them Premier League football in the first place. For the people who led them down this path, this will be that most perfect of lessons: one which has illustrated the error of their ways, but which has ultimately spared them any long-term consequences. Escaping relegation has afforded Swansea’s decision-makers the opportunity of a re-set; the luxury of learning from their mistakes without having to do so from within the Football League.
What’s next, though?
Fortunately, the strained relationship between the club’s Supporters’ Trust and its ownership is under repair. Huw Jenkins may have tarnished his reputation permanently, but Jason Levein and Steve Kaplan — with the help of COO Chris Pearlman’s conciliatory touch — now appear to have a far greater appreciation for what they’ve bought. It’s unfounded, of course, but the suspicion until the early months of 2017 was that, while undoubtedly having a firm grasp of its asset value, Levein and Kaplan didn’t truly appreciate the complexities of their new club. Slowly that has been remedied and the club appears stronger as a result.
But there are many on-field lessons to learn, too. Tempting as it is to assign sole responsibility for the current malaise to the botched takeover, it would be reductive. While much of the instability has come from the shifting of those boardroom plates, many of the current squad’s weaknesses are a product of a flawed philosophy which has been apparent for some time. Since their promotion to this level, Swansea have been generously praised for the consistency of their football, it’s aesthetic virtue, and the stability it has brought, but such tangible success has arrived in spite of a transfer policy which, in retrospect, appears to challenge many of those values.
Looking back over that s market activity, the volume is striking. Not necessarily the hit-and-miss ratios, but the amount of players who have been through the club over the last four years: nine major arrivals in 2012/13, eight (plus the loan of David Ngog) the following season, ten significant signings in 14/15, and a further eight and ten over the course of the next two years. Swansea have now had six different Premier League managers and with that has come an inevitable degree of wastage, but that doesn’t necessarily justify the scattergun approach; they’ve employed far too many players who have had far too little worth.
Transfers will always be a toss-of-a-coin business. In this particular case, Swansea’s financial realities prevent them from having free choice in the market and so, more than many teams above them, they are prone to having to gamble on players with visible imperfections. But this doesn’t relate to the 50% deals which could have gone one way or another — the Mike Van Der Horn, Jonjo Shelvey and Borja Baston type of signings, which seemed logical in principle — but rather to those players who were recruited with no obvious necessity in mind. Franck Tabanou and Eder, for instance. Marvin Emnes and Alvaro Vazquez. Nelson Oliveira and Alberto Paloschi. Not all of those players failed for the same reasons, but they each departed quickly and predictably having offered little.
It is easy to judge after the fact, but this is (and they are) still representative of something which needs to change: Swansea haven’t improved efficiently enough.
If the most recent precedent is to be believed, refinement is already underway. Luciano Narsingh, Martin Olsson, Jordan Ayew and Tom Carroll arrived at the Liberty Stadium in January and all four have contributed to the team’s survival. Primarily, all have added value by being good players, but also because they’ve addressed specific needs: Narsingh’s width and pace, Carroll’s reliable passing, Ayew’s adaptability and movement at the top of the pitch, and Olsson’s speed and delivery from deep. Those four were identified as having specific traits which would suit Clement’s style of play and, reliably, they have all made Swansea better.
Prior to that transfer window, Daniel Altman and his North Yard Analytics team were also engaged by the club. Although Swansea actually have a history of data analysis which dates back to Garry Monk’s time at the club, that would also seem to represent an assault on a traditional weakness. Analytics cannot provide a magic bullet cure and tends only to be as useful as the people offering and receiving its advice allow it to be. Clement, judging by his public comments at least, has the appreciation expected of someone who has worked with these systems in bigger clubs before, but also the nous to recognise where the line between traditional and contemporary thinking should be drawn. By all accounts, Altman and his team (presumably tucked away in an air-conditioned office) are there to provide due diligence rather to actually lead transfer policy. Clement appears comfortable with that and, consequently, the chances of an harmonious and productive relationship seem high. No talk of revolution, no warring factions.
So with the last six months as evidence, it seems accurate to present Swansea as a club who have won themselves a second chance at the right point in their history. They are an organisation who evidently recognised their own faults at exactly the right time and, thanks to their playing and technical staff, now have the opportunity to fully clear their philosophical haziness and cure some of their more literal failings. In time, perhaps, these last frantic weeks may eventually enjoy relative parity with those desperate days at the Vetch Field. Not because they’re anything like as desperate, but because they’ve seen the conquering of downward momentum.
Swansea have lived to see another day. Because they have — and because they appear to understand why they found themselves in the darkness in the first place — their future should be bright.
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