Why Swansea City Board Must Take Responsibility For The Club’s Abysmal Form Rather Than Going On A Sacking Spree (Bob Bradley).

Swansea City have unsurprisingly disposed of their second coach this season which is also the fourth coach to be sacked by the club in one year with American Bob Bradley (lasted only 85 days) getting the sack yesterday just the same way the likes of Gary Monk and Francesco Guidolin got theirs some months ago.
Although Bradley should shoulder some of the blame having taken over a house on the verge of collapse and losing seven of his 11 Premier League games in charge and lasting only 85 days yet the truth is that the Swansea City board and chairman are the main culprits. Going down memory lane with the likes of Monk, Ashley Williams and Chico Flores, Swansea had a team of leaders even though they lacked Premier League experience when first promoted under Brendan Rodgers in the 2010/2011 season. A look at the likes of Michael Vorm, Williams, Ben Davies, Joe Allen, Jonjo Shelvey, Scot Sinclair and Dede Ayew looks too descent and full of quality to be in the mess the present crop of players like Jack Cork, Lucas Fabianski, Neil Taylor and Federico Fernandez to mention a few find themselves. To buttress further, the board underestimated impact quality players had in a squad as they didn’t sign these sort of players In the summer worsening their situation by selling the few they had with the likes of Ayew and Williams moving to West Ham and Everton respectively and the club realising more than £30 million from their sales and using a fraction of it to sign inexperienced and young players like Mawson and Jay Fulton all from the League One. Make no mistake, the aim of this writing isn’t to disrespect the lower tier of English football as Swansea are expected to perform better considering they have more experienced players than most newly promoted sides who are not doing so badly at the moment (Burnley and Middlesbrough), yet what should be noted is that the few experienced players in the South Wales club who should compliment the inexperienced players are too old and should have been released namely Leon Britton (34 years) and Rangel (32), yet these players are regularly started making the team unbalanced. The club record signing of Borja Baston for £13 million has also come to hunt them as the Spaniard has failed to bang in goals together with compatriot Fernando Ilorente which is the opposite of what happened in the past with Michu and Wilfried Bony. Clearly the Swansea board failed in the transfer market and must take the blame rather than continue to sack managers. A look at the past shows that this was the same issue last season before the sacking of Monk with Guidolin doing his best to halt the decline before getting the sack this season . On his part, Guidolin won only one of his seven games this season before he was booted out and now Bradley has reminded all who care to know that even a Pep Guardiola will struggle to keep the club in the top flight considering their lack of quality players. Apart from decent wingers Montero, Barrow, Wayne Routledge and star player Gulfi Siggurdsson, Swansea posses one of the worst teams even on paper at the moment.
Sitting 19th in the table with a goal difference which is the worst in the league with the exception of bottom placed Hull City, Swansea are clearly favourites to go down hence the club’s top management must take responsibility for their failed oversight rather than continue living in denial.
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