‘Hey, you are using a lot of 4G!’ – Carlos Carvalhal’s Swansea phone bill shock

• Swansea manager’s mobile phone usage costs club a packet
• ‘I use a lot of 4G because the internet is slow and I have work to do’

The remarkable turnaround that Carlos Carvalhal has engineered at Swansea has come at a cost after it emerged eyebrows have been raised within the club at the level of 4G usage on the manager’s phone – something the Portuguese puts down to the combination of a slow internet connection at home and the amount of time he spends painstakingly analysing opponents.

Swansea have collected 10 points from five games under Carvalhal, including impressive back-to-back league victories over Liverpool and Arsenal to breathe new life into their troubled season. Getting the manager’s broadband up and running has proved to be much more difficult and has resulted in a rising mobile phone bill.

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