MANCHESTER, England — Bob Bradley’s answer to one question, in particular, stood out. As Swansea City’s owners conducted a handful of discreet interviews with potential replacements for Francesco Guidolin as manager, they asked each candidate for a detailed explanation of how, precisely, he might set the team up for his first game in charge, away at Arsenal on Oct. 15.
Not every response passed muster. The club’s American proprietors, Steve Kaplan and Jason Levien, were particularly unconvinced by the contender who could offer only the platitude that, to come out of a slump that has taken the club to 17th in the Premier League table, Swansea’s players simply needed to work harder, to run more.