On Tuesday, Bob Bradley was sacked by Swansea City after managing just 11 games. It was a disappointing and short-lived tenure for the American manager to say the least. Swansea blogger Max Hicks lays out five reasons the former United States national team manager failed and pinpoints five further things the new manager will have to fix immediately.
5 Reasons Why Bradley Failed
1. Williams and Ayew were never properly replaced
It is too kind to blame all of Swansea's underachievement on poor summer recruitment, especially since Bradley's predecessor Francesco Guidolin had been faring better with the same players, but the fact remains Swansea sold their defensive leader and their top scorer and replaced neither.