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Reply | Exclusive : Chaos in the Swans boardroom and chaos on the pitch : Sponsors leav
at 19:55 16 Feb 2025
The Swiss Rambler wrote that in season 22/23 Bournemouth had an £100 million improvement from a loss of £56 million the year before to a profit of £44 million. The majority of that was due to a write off of £71 million in shareholder loans.
I don't know if P&S rules have changed since then, but only rich shareholders (owners) can afford to write off £71 million.
There's obviously more to their success than just money, for example smart recruitment and sales, but being able to write off £71 million in loans wouldn't have hurt. |
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Reply | Exclusive : Chaos in the Swans boardroom and chaos on the pitch : Sponsors leav
at 13:40 16 Feb 2025
According to the club website:
His role will focus on organisational structure and management at the club across a range of departments, helping to shape and build a high-performance culture, as well as supporting chairman Andy Coleman in delivering on his vision for Swansea City.
If that's his role then he is another failure who is probably being well paid for it. |
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Reply | Exclusive : Chaos in the Swans boardroom and chaos on the pitch : Sponsors leav
at 11:15 16 Feb 2025
Sums up what is wrong with the club.
The chairman is so out of his depth in charge of a professional football club in the UK and the manager is out of his depth tactically and preparing the team.
The manager needs to go and has needed to go for a while. The chairman needs to stand back, take a long hard look in the mirror and take advice from people who know what they are doing.
With this perfect storm we will be lucky to stay up unless major decisions are taken quickly. The problem is that prospective managers and their agents will know that the club is a basket case run by someone who would be out of his depth in a puddle. |
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Reply | Pre Match music
at 21:17 9 Feb 2025
My fave along with Chelsea Dagger
For a siren - blind faith by chase and status
To get the crowd going -- thunderstruck by ac/dc with the crowd chanting Swansea instead of thunder. |
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Reply | Luke on recruitment strategy
at 11:54 8 Feb 2025
On a quick scan I read the title as Lack of recruitment strategy. Maybe my quick scan was right |
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Reply | Fans forum
at 20:48 4 Feb 2025
I get the impression that he isn't fond of you guys. Surely you aren't asking him questions that he doesn't want to answer?
I thought that he wanted to be transparent. |
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Reply | Fans forum
at 19:02 4 Feb 2025
Apologies my fat fingers hit hit the wrong button |
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Reply | Coleman Out
at 15:44 4 Feb 2025
Please don't say that our scout is a computer programme. 🤦♂️
It would be like choosing Williams as a manager without a football man watching Notts County play. The assists and goals of Jones and Langstaff must have papered over a lot of cracks. |
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Reply | Coleman Out
at 00:31 4 Feb 2025
I suspect that the whole window and the months preceding it were based on an assumption that we would be somewhere near the play offs and that we would be an attractive option for the quality of players we were scouting.
I don't think that what Williams has managed to achieve since the QPR game ever entered the realms of possibility. Additionally I don't think that it was considered that selling clubs wouldn't bend over backwards to accept payment schedules that fitted our P&S. Again because the players would be desperate to join us because we were going places and would force moves if necessary.
Our abysmal form meant that the boot was on the other foot with the selling clubs regarding payments. We became desperate, hence the loan back, and were not an attractive proposition for the other players we wanted.
I believe a mixture of inexperience, naivety, making assumptions and poor coaching has potentially seen a lot of work go down the pan. Perhaps when we started falling apart on the pitch there should have been a reappraisal of some targets.
This window feels different to those under the previous regime where moving the goalposts in a transfer at the last moment seemed to be the norm. The end result however, is the same another shambles.
Maybe Keith and the team will cast a different light on this mess but it's how it feels from a distance. |
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Reply | January Transfer Thread
at 23:54 3 Feb 2025
In August 2012, Gary Neville posted:
"What the transfer deadline gives you is a clear indication of which are the badly run football clubs!!!"
It still holds true today. |
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Reply | Jacob Wright - Man City ...
at 21:45 3 Feb 2025
What have they got that we haven't got, apart from a better wage structure, being 3 points off the play offs and looking to challenge for a spot etc. |
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Reply | 🔴 Swansea City : Transfer Deadline Day
at 21:40 3 Feb 2025
Pay league 1 wages, eventually get league 1 football. Our awful recruitment in previous windows has speeded up the process. |
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Reply | 🔴 Swansea City : Transfer Deadline Day
at 21:20 3 Feb 2025
I disagree - clearly ambition for the deals that fell through. Trying to implement Plan B, C or even D on deadline day is the problem once again. |
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Reply | Swansea City on deadline day : Afternoon update
at 19:35 3 Feb 2025
I think Coleman is genuine, however our current form and league position, speculation regarding the manager, selling the captain to a "more ambitious" club, probably our best centre half running down his contract and our wage structure isn't going to encourage a lot of players in this country to make permanent moves.
I guess Wright was looking for a better positioned club to match us.
The problem with deadline day business, especially when you aren't pushing for the play offs is you often end up with either very little or overpaying for a player who is way down on your list |
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