After a fairytale debut with Swansea City where his team beat Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool, Clement continued to build on his good work earning 26 points from 18 games and leading the Swans to the safety season. However, this season things have gone downhill for them and Swansea are currently staggering at rock bottom 20th place with just 13 points after nineteen game weeks. In their last ten English Premier League matches, Swansea City has lost eight of them. The results have been horrendous and the nature of defeats even more depressing. It is tough to see the Swans surviving this season in this form, a situation that added more pressure to Clement’s demise at his current club.
The stat of nine defeats in their last twelve matches, excluding yesterday’s draw at Palace, has left the fans frustrated and the players must shoulder some responsibility. This is Swansea’s seventh straight season in the top flight since their promotion in 2011. The Swans must look to themselves as their top-flight run clearly proves they have the quality in their squad to cut it in the league. However, with the current crop failing to prove useful, Clement had to pay the final price.
Swansea City are increasingly looking like a team that seems set on the drop. The players are looking demotivated and are now facing an uncertain period in the midst of a managerial change.
It is now being reported that Swansea City are seeking to appoint Dennis Bergkamp. The former Arsenal player left his assistant coach role at Ajax and with Swansea struggling to find a replacement for the sacked Paul Clement, Bergkamp has emerged as a shock candidate.
Swansea had talks with Van Gaal but to no avail and after failing to secure a replacement in time for the Crystal Palace match, their club legend Leon Britton had to take over despite being relatively new to management.
“It tells its own story that the club has had six managers in three years, it was unheard of for Swansea before,” Britton said.
“People used to speak of us as a model football club and how we played and went about our business.
“It’s been disappointing that we’ve had so many managers in such a short space of time and we need to get the club back on track and settle down.
“Moving forward we have to get an idea back, get a manager in place and get some stability back.”
Whether getting an inexperienced manager in Bergkamp will solve the crisis or should Swansea City hold on to Britton until someone experienced comes along, only time will tell.
