How have Swansea City gone from a model club to a mess in 18 months? | Stuart James

Paul Clement’s sacking was no great surprise but, after the club sanctioned the departure of its best two players, he has not been given much of a chance

What a mess Swansea City have become. There are problems on the field, off the field and just about everywhere you look, so much so that it seems like a trick of imagination that only a few years ago they were hailed as the Premier League’s model club. Who on earth would want to follow their example now?

For a third season running they are mired in a relegation battle, anchored to the bottom of the table and caught up in a dismal cycle of failure that sees the club lurch from crisis to crisis, hire and fire managers, and never for a moment stop to address the deeper, underlying problems that have got them into such a dire position in the first place.

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