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Laudrup - what's gone wrong?

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As the article says, he was one of the hottest managerial properties over the summer, and now it's all going wrong with the Swans very much in the relegation battle. He had a really good squad left to him from Rodgers, and he added to it brilliantly last year with Michu, Flores and Pablo. Another year, and most of his signings just haven't done much (especially Bony, who despite his talent wasn't been played much until Michu was injured because he just didn't fit in with Michu).

Just an average manager who did well on Rodgers' squad? Bad luck? What is it?

@the_khl - maybe this is the post to see your return to the site?

[article=http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/swanseas-michael-laudrup-leave-summer-3048084#.Ut-H2_v8Jc4]Michael Laudrup is heading for the exit door at Swansea this summer – even if the club stay up.

The Swans' hierarchy believe it will be his final season in charge, an that it's just a case of whether the Dane decides to walk away or is pushed.

Swansea have held an emergency board meeting to discuss the growing crisis and Laudrup admitted on Tuesday that the club are facing “dark days”.

Police were called to the training ground after Chico Flores was allegedly spotted threatening Garry Monk with a brick during an amazing bust-up.

There was a boardroom inquest into the row and Swansea chairman Huw Jenkins is understood to be deeply concerned after the flare-up last Friday.

Swansea’s players are understood to be fed-up with training and results have shown a desperate dip in form which has plunged them towards the relegation zone.

Danish legend Laudrup’s relationship with Jenkins is at breaking point again after the club was last season forced to deny a rift between the pair over transfers and player recruitment.

Laudrup has struggled to balance the Europa League – which he has publicly admitted was a priority and fresh challenge for him – with the Premier League, which the board see as a priority because survival in the top flight comes first.

Ex-Real Madrid star Laudrup was one of the hottest managerial properties around last summer after winning the Capital One Cup, but it's now believed Swansea would even be willing to reduce his £10m buy-out clause if another club comes in.

Laudrup has 17 months left on a contract extended after the Welsh club’s triumph at Wembley last February - it would cost them around £4m to pay him off in the summer.
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Holle said:
Maybe he isn't that good in reality?
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I dunno ... He did brilliantly at Getafe (lost to Bayern in Europa League, almost won the Copa del rey cup), and then quit. He was shite at Spartak and then kept Mallorca in La Liga despite all the mess surrounding them (and then he quit).

Maybe he's just a manager a club in transition need ... He'll do well for a year, fire him and then move on.
 
Or the injury/form to Michu.

But, his signings this season have been poor imho. Loaning out Ki (who I think is a very decent footballer) to Sunderland and replacing him with that Canas lad was awful.
And the trio of new Spanish attackers have been shite.

Shelvey is, well Shelvey. Capable of some great stuff but also horrendous at the same time.
 
I've watched a bit of Swansea recently (I don't know why) and to a point I've been impressed.

They play some pretty good stuff but are just massively let down by their inability to create enough goalscoring chances. I guess having Michu, Hernandez and whoever else hasn't helped in that regard.

Also, as far as Bony goes I think he might be starting to find his feet. He is scoring quite a few now and has looked pretty good when I've seen him. At 12M or whatever they paid for him, he will go on to prove good value if he continues in this vein.
 
keniget said:
I've watched a bit of Swansea recently (I don't know why) and to a point I've been impressed.

They play some pretty good stuff but are just massively let down by their inability to create enough goalscoring chances. I guess having Michu, Hernandez and whoever else hasn't helped in that regard.

Also, as far as Bony goes I think he might be starting to find his feet. He is scoring quite a few now and has looked pretty good when I've seen him. At 12M or whatever they paid for him, he will go on to prove good value if he continues in this vein.
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I agree, and to me this all seems a bit previous. I can't help wondering whether, if there really has been a serious falling-out between Laudrup and his chairman, some of this chatter in the media may have been fuelled by leaks from within the club at Jenkins' behest.
 
keniget said:
Also, as far as Bony goes I think he might be starting to find his feet. He is scoring quite a few now and has looked pretty good when I've seen him. At 12M or whatever they paid for him, he will go on to prove good value if he continues in this vein.
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Bony is boss.
 
cloggypop said:
Bony is boss.
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Yeah fair play - You were singing his praises awhile ago. He's had a bit of a slow start but I think he's adjusting to the PL nicely now. If he can bang in 15+ for his 1st season that will be very good.

Unless he gets shot in the back by Pat Garrett of course 😉
 
There's nothing gone wrong.

It's just Laudrup's Danish - it's in their nature fail miserably.
 
i said last season that i doubted he be there more than 2 seasons .
I just don't think he's too bothered with the hassle of it when the going gets tough .


Yet the other side of the coin is that Laudrup's enthusiasm for football has clear boundaries. There is no chance he will be managing when he is 60, he says, because there are "other things" that he wants to do with his life and he also has no great desire to be in charge of a top club. "People sometimes say to me, 'You've been to Getafe and Mallorca and you go to Swansea now, but you always played at the top. Why do you do that?' First of all, I haven't received an offer to go to Barcelona, Madrid or Manchester United," Laudrup says laughing. "Secondly, I don't have that ambition to think, 'Oh, one day, I would like to go to the top.'
"It's not that if that possibility came I wouldn't do it. But let's say I started with Brondby in 2002 and my ambition was to manage Barcelona or Real Madrid. I do well, after four years I go to Spain, I do well and after the third year I have the possibility to go to Barcelona. We finish second, I lose the Champions League final and I go out in the semi-final of the Cup. And they say to me, 'Michael, we're sorry but we didn't win anything so we're going to have to change.' Then I've had eight years with that ambition and in 10 months it's all over, for one game. You can't live like that."
But lots of people do. "Yeah, but I don't. And then you're going to ask me, 'Why don't you?' Maybe it's because as a player I was already there. Don't misunderstand me when I say I don't have the ambition to go there. It's not that I would not like to. But I'm very happy to be in clubs where I probably won't win titles, because what is important for me is that I can see players and teams improve. And the day I don't feel like that anymore, I will stop and do something else."
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Second Season Blues perhaps?

Not a good Season for him at all, can still be redeemed mind.

As mentioned first time EL for the club ever and last years impressive run doesn't help keeping fans expectations at bay though Swansea really is a small fish in a big pond.

Still hope to see what players he'd go for with a major kitty somewhere. Perhaps won't ever happen however.
 
There is only so much a manager can achieve with someone else's squad before it all starts to go wrong. In football-science circles this is known as the Ged-Rafa Paradox. For more detail on the science behind it, ask Dantes.
 
Fabio said:
I'd buy him off them if they don't recover from their slump
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He's scored 13 in all competitions. So he could conceivably get 20 by the end of the season. That'd be an excellent first season for a mid-table side.

That said, he's basically like a Drogba-lite, isn't he? Good as he may be, I'm not sure that's the kind of the player I want as the third striker to be rotated with Suarez and Sturridge. Ideally, I want this player to be someone who's comfortable playing up front or as a wing-forward. Adaptable and with a good work-rate. That makes him far easier to fit into our fluid attacking system than someone like Drogba. Someone in the mould of Tevez, for instance, would be the perfect third striker for us.

I'd have a look at both Lavezzi and Menez at PSG, who're both that sort of player, and haven't been getting much playing time behind Zlatan and Cavani.
 
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