Yesterday afternoons news that Chris Davies won’t be taking up a post as Swansea City manager wasn’t a huge surprise to some. He has spent his career as a coach or number two and the job at Swansea City was clearly going to test his mettle, and to be honest it was always going to be too big a role for him to fulfil. And possibly Swansea City felt so as well ?

The formal or informal nature of the discussions with Davies may well have left Swansea in a position where they couldn’t offer him the job due to his lack of experience. On experience Steve Cooper had not a lot of that when he came to Swansea. Whatever it was the two were not compatible.

Things happen for a reason.

The Swans though haven’t put all their eggs in to one basket and we understand that Steve Cotterill recently resigned from Shrewsbury Town isn’t one of those under consideration at this time. The fifty eight year old from Cheltenham has managed ten clubs and we understand he was never in the running. Watch now as he gets announced ! The Swans are in no hurry to appoint a new man with Russell Martin still under discussions with Southampton. That has gone completely quiet but no news is just that, no news.

Talk of Graham Potter, Ryan Mason and Brendan Rodgers can also be dismissed. Our man Liam broke the news on Rodgers returning to Celtic earlier this week, so the clubs majority ownership have reached a stalemate for now. Just where the Swans will now look is anyone’s guess, we were told that the new manager would be a UK based choice, but that can only go on for so long with this latest news. How long the talks with Davies went on for we don’t know, but he was quick to follow Ange Postecoglou to Spurs, a choice we wholehearted now agree with. A Swans manager needs to be up front and forthright which clearly isn’t something Davies wanted in his life at this point in his career.

I thought this site did a remarkable job on their ‘watching brief’ feature on Chris Davies, he did seem to have all the attributes for the job, Swansea City have always been fairly successful in their managerial appointments since relegation to the championship so we have to have some faith in the next move. Whatever that is nobody is shining through this morning, no suggestions or contenders on the horizon, so it’s an open book again.

And not a summer really goes by without frustration.

Photograph licensed from Reuters

Freelander added 08:54 - Jun 16 Well who would won't to come to a club like e Swans when you have a board who do not believe in putting proper investment in it to buy players and are willing to sell our best ones to fund it and we will end up going for the cheapest manger who will agree in all of the board will tel him them owners will be the fall of our club as of now we the supporters of the Swans do know from one week to the next who is accountable to the club with all the different people investing in it and will there be money available for new players I ask you.

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sw02sea added 08:29 - Jun 17 NOW SCREENING “Groundhog Day 2,3,4,5 etc” The plot…… “An all American cast who’ve forgotten their lines, and you mayhem ensues” The Reviews: The Sun….“I could not believe what I was watching, it’s hilarious!!” The Telegraph…. “The Swansea Whey !” This milk has really curdled ! The Evening Post…. “I’ve seen it all before”
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