There has been much comment and it has to be said bar a few abusive idiots on social media a lot of frustration on those platforms regards Harry Darling and Luke Williams. Much of this brought about by the reluctance of Luke Williams to just clarify his position at Swansea City.

Head coach, Williams has been at the Swans for almost a year. It is unusual for us to include others but Chris Lepkowski, a BBC journalist has made it very clear (publicly now) that Luke was a contender for the job at the Hawthorns which came from media and news company ‘West Brom Xtra’ He stated ‘I am very much not surprised’ Our research then took us to the news that WBA had a desire to speak to Luke Williams on Friday 3rd January (tomorrow) All was fine at that point, nobody would be surprised or unsurprised at that news.

Luke being a contender was never the issue.

Then of course a few questions were put to Luke which really annoyed many Swans followers when he wouldn’t answer links to the Baggies job clearly stating in as many words ‘speak to my agent’ and still he hasn’t committed himself to Swansea City nor answered questions directly. Yesterday he said ‘I’ haven’t spoken to West Bromwich Albion. It’s these play on words that infuriate supporters, especially after his ‘speak to my agent’ quote. He hasn’t said there’s nothing in it and he hasn't clearly stated he isn’t interested.

As we have said on our Twitter social media account he hasn’t been asked the right questions and he hasn’t been pinned down on this at all. He has now been quoted as stating ‘Swansea City’ haven’t been contacted about this latest news. How does he know this ? Has he been told or has he asked the question ? In that case why would he ask the question ? We base that on his comments of course. In amongst all this we have heard nothing from Chairman, Andrew Coleman. What we do know is that he isn’t at all happy with the situation as there has been a knock on effect. Initial news from sources told us very clearly he was very angry and upset at the time Luke started his car crash comments on any links to West Brom. Williams will be asked today by the club as to what information his agent has, and what he wants to do about a job at the Hawthorns - as it was first reported that he would be interviewed by West Brom this week.

That doesn’t come from nowhere.

We know and genuinely believe these word games are as a result of his agent knowing the situation regards West Brom, and are working towards Luke remaining in the West Brom frame. The situation now though has nothing to do with ‘if or when’ he ever leaves the club or wants an interview in the midlands, it’s about how Luke Williams has handled himself. Our point on this is the new investment team. We do have contacts within the Swans investors or we wouldn’t have given you three weeks exclusive notice on the names involved in the removal of Levien and Kaplan. Plus of course the arrival of Tyler Morse a week before it was announced. So you can take this with as many pinches of salt as you like. We work diligently on our information retrieval, and have explained how on many occasions.

The new investors are not happy with the platform Williams is being given to put himself in the West Brom picture. Certain elements weren’t happy with him being at the club before this. They see this as a betrayal, so today will clear up many things.

1. Why have you said what you have said of late ?
2. Do you realise transfers this month are being affected ?
3. This has ensured Harry Darling has abstained from signing a new contract that he was on the brink of signing before this all started ?
4. How can we show a united front from here on in and get back to what is most important, Swansea City FC.

On point four it is simple, the Swans will continue to say nothing or they will come out all guns blazing with their arms around Luke Williams in a show of solidarity. However that happens we still don’t believe Luke has full support in the boardroom and most certainly not throughout the fanbase. In fact as we referenced above, we actually know the hierarchy at the club are not fully behind him. The inconsistency of his results as Swans boss and the ever worsening away performances as we saw yesterday have also gone against him.

And the real issue within the supporters base is trust.

These young Swans fans (below) at Portsmouth yesterday should not be taken for granted.

It was confirmed to us just before this nonsense Luke Williams started that Harry Darling was about to rethink his latest terms offered by Andrew Coleman and sign. The expectation within the club was very positive, hence our comments that we would be ‘very surprised’ if he didn’t sign. That’s now out of the window, not completely, but recent events with Williams have unsettled Darling to the extent he is in a state of limbo personally. (Sources) He is now exploring opportunities elsewhere as a result of the past four days. He isn’t seeing a committed head coach and he isn’t seeing conformity throughout the club on the future of Williams and his staff. Added to that the training sessions are reported as being so repetitive and prescriptive the players are finding certain phases of training extremely tiring. Plus, and this is the key factor, the reliance on these training patterns every day are not giving the squad confidence going into match days. How can they be when the respective strategies by Williams are not resulting in performances on the pitch ? Players being told that this is the right way to do things and then losing games has lowered their belief in the head coach. It’s a bit like you being told to do certain things at work that hardly ever come off and you are told to keep on implementing what you are doing regardless of poor performance.

It will affect your confidence and belief in your daily work.

What we have seen recently is a head coach displaying as much inexperience verbally as he has in his current job role. He clearly isn’t being guided on how he is being perceived and most importantly how he is affecting the clubs day to day business with these comments. Everything at this moment in time is unraveling, and all of this is down to Luke Williams who is displaying the same behaviour and verbals which we saw and heard when he left Notts County.

It is quite simply, unprofessional, inconsiderate and selfish. When you have certain entities within the Swans ownership being astonished by this behaviour you really have to question Williams future at the club. There’s no way the club can tolerate this for much longer, even performances aside Luke Williams has completely cut ties with the Swans fan base in parts. And once again we have someone aiming better for himself but without the nouse to verbalise himself properly nor care the effect he is having on our club.

More on Ben Cabango and Joe Low tomorrow.

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