da leao： As Swansea look to pull off one of the Premier League’s great escapes under the stewardship of their third manager this season, Paul Clement, their former player, manager and all-around club legend, Garry Monk is leading Leeds United’s promotion charge in the Championship.
da stake casino： Clement looks to have had an early positive impact on Swansea but the frustration at losing Monk to the Yorkshire giants cannot be understated. The differing trajectories of the two clubs shows that.
The odd treatment of Monk was the beginning of a change in operation a Swansea. Having been used as the archetypal football club, the South Wales team were renowned for giving managers time and investing in players shrewdly. Since the dizzy heights of their early days in the top flight, a season like this has been of increasingly inevitability for the Swans.
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Although results took a downturn before Monk was removed from his post at Swansea, the 37-year-old looked set to build a long-term stronghold at the Liberty Stadium. Loved by the fans, he was the perfect man to hold the job down for several years and consolidate Swansea as not just a Premier League club, but a top half competitor.
Leeds, however, would love to have had the problems Swansea have had of late. Since their financial troubles during the early part of the last decade, they have perhaps been the most turbulent club in the Football League. If the well-run Swansea’s sacking of Monk sparked their downward trend, his signing by crisis-ridden Leeds has enabled their surge. The tables look to be turning.
Monk has brought hope to Elland Road and seemingly earned the trust of the board. His successes at the club will easily be forgotten if he does not bring a return to the top flight – and that will almost certainly require a challenging diversion through the play-offs.
Long-term Premier League clubs are spoilt in many ways, but Leeds will be endlessly thankful for Swansea’s Monk mistake. Clement is an intelligent, outside-the-box appointment, Bob Bradley may have worked well under less pressure and Francesco Guidolin did little wrong, yet Leeds have the best of the former Swansea bunch. The beneficiaries from one of a catalogue of poor decisions by Swansea, Leeds are on their way back where they feel they belong and it’s thanks to a manager too often overlooked. As the lack of British managers is bemoaned, one of the very best is working wonders in the second tier.
Monk’s departure was the beginning of Swansea’s problems. While Ashley Williams’ sale last summer is seen as the trigger for the difficulties on the pitch this season, the abandoning of their principles in the loss of Monk hurt Swansea as much as anything else. If faith had been kept with a young, calm manager, the Swans would unlikely be in the predicament they are right now.
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
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