It isn’t enough just to do a match report and team ratings with the odd positive slant on the effort we now call Swansea City, and after yesterday, there can be no further excuses or meaningful explanations.

The Swans are now a completely mismanaged, incompetent and partially inept gathering of footballers, cheaply assembled in lieu of the players they have replaced. The club has eaten away at its resources to get to where they are today, selling on their very best and replacing the millions earned with sub standard players. This is how you get to be Swansea City at the turn of the year 2023 in to 2024. That’s on the pitch. The lack of cohesion at Southampton, the inability to pass a football to someone in the same colour shirt, or attempts to create anything positive were all missing. It’s been coming though, when you use a professional football club as your play thing without a single shred of experience and make decisions through your own incompetent understanding of the British game this is what happens.

Swansea City as a squad are strangers, their confidence levels now so far gone it’s looking like a sub standard experiment in human behaviour with a ball thrown in. Teams reach these levels by skimping on the necessary investment, those areas where you have to invest if you want to be taken seriously. Swansea don’t do that, they look for the very cheapest players ( Yates for Piroe ) and then take a punt on them.

Goals galore yesterday from mistakes or glaring errors, a team that had given up on any attempt to save face was the order of the day. The few chances made by the Swans were squandered and to be honest that would have only delayed the inevitable as we saw at Leeds. If there has been a Swans side so poorly assembled and so badly thought through then we saw it yesterday. What we have now is a gathering of very average footballers who are inadequate at best, and are the by product of an ownership who are driven by money before anything else, who calculate their success on running a football club by the value of its off pitch worth. The American growth fund ( Swansea City LLC ) which has the Chairman, Andrew Coleman and numerous unnamed others investment is a concern. Nobody knows what Coleman put into the club ( currently nothing ) when he took over as Chairman. He put his money with numerous others in to this LLC, declaring he was an investor but won’t say how much it is, who else is involved or where this cash is distributed. Least of all how much is in the fund. Does that sound open and transparent ? And all the while, another investor Nigel Morris put his money in to Swansea City in the UK, an openly accountable investment declared year on year. The USA fund will never be declared, accountable or transparent.

After six months of incompetent stewardship by Coleman and co, a top heavy self rewarding ethos that when explained clouds the issue, baffles the average Swans fan and tires out the majority, we have this scenario. Swansea City fans now have a decision to make, do they watch the clubs decline and do nothing, accept the status quo and do nothing, or shout from the stands, and do nothing. Of course there are other options, but as it stands I doubt there is a desire to do anything or lead anything that could be described as a positive action to save the clubs current position. In 2023 we have seen the club dive from expectations that things are getting better, to now having a poisonous brew of confusion within the club.

The excuses for not appointing a new manager are purely down to money or the reluctance of anyone to put their faith in Coleman to become the new Swansea boss. For anyone to believe anything else is allowing the majority ownership to bluff and get away with their current diatribe. It’s an insult to every Swans fan for the ownership to believe they are on the same wavelength as the real supporters of this club.

It’s a pathetic situation brought about by a pathetic belief that this is all just okay. And that goes for both sides of the coin, the owners and the fans. You either take your sides now or repent at your leisure.

Artwork by Swansea Independent

ReslovenSwan1 added 16:18 - Dec 27 The fans are owners. They are one and the same. Forums like this encouraged division whilst the same time having huge influence in the Trust themselves. They were a disaster. Fans accept the credit when things are going well but conveniently forget it when this are going badly. The Sheehan era is too long but at least he has 7 points for 4 games.
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Bluswan added 17:38 - Dec 27 As this article makes clear - it is the incompetence and abject failure of the owners which is the root cause of any ‘division’ as you put it. Don’t put the blame on the fans as many of us invest both financially and emotionally by buying season tickets and travelling long distances just to support ‘our’ club. The American owners are custodians and what a miserable performance they are making of this as far as the playing fortunes of the club and the well-being of its loyal supporters are concerned. We are going to struggle to avoid relegation this season but if we do avoid it, unless there is a massive change of heart and strategy by the owners in terms of investing rather than taking out of the club, and by making intelligent and timely football decision, relegation for next season is a certainty. There is no avoiding the fact that we are a failing club on sustained decline over several years, attracting ever-growing reputational damage, and whose future is looking increasingly uncertain. The future under these American owners is becoming extremely worrying for the many thousands of loyal, long-term supporters (the life-blood of the club). The only way these owners will get the message is if it hits them directly in their pockets - and ironically they are heading in the right direction for L1 will mean greatly reduced attendances, less profile in the game, lower commercial revenue, less money for their shareholders. They will probably sell at that point - but the stupid thing is that they could easily have avoided all this by showing some football and business intelligence, and empathy and respect for the history of the club and its community. The American owners have created this problem - not the fans!

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