08 Oct 2016 18:20:37
Giggs reveals that Swamsea didn't match his ambitions from a football standpoint. Make of that what we will, was he even offered it?
08 Oct 2016 18:31:56
I think their ambition was to hire a competent manager, his ambition was to be hired without demonstrating any competence.
08 Oct 2016 18:40:40
Not sure what he expects. To be offered one of the top 20 positions in the country for your first job far exceeds most peoples expectations.
Does he expect to go to a club competing in Europe?
Personally outside of the top four Swansea are probably one of the best jobs in the league. They buy well, back their managers, play good football and rarely sack managers.
08 Oct 2016 20:19:44
Perfectly put Danny.
14 managers since the year 2000 Shappy.
08 Oct 2016 20:32:21
Come on herbie that's less than 1 a year😆😆.
08 Oct 2016 22:32:16
I'm a huge fan of Giggs tho player but since he retired he seems to have developed delusions of grandeur. Perhaps he saw Nev get the Valencia gig and therefore thinks he should get a big job but he has no experience. Bizarrely, the only top job he had a chance at was the United job purely from a cultural continuity standpoint. Given he was 'set free', he needs to be sensible about his first role. I don't see a Premier League club giving him a job.
08 Oct 2016 23:35:36
I agree AJH its a high risk appointment for any chairman to make.
09 Oct 2016 09:25:59
Herbie, how many of those managers were sacked and how many left to join a precieved bigger club due to the good work they did at Swansea.
Sir Alex said to Steven McClaren that its more important to pick a good chairman/ chief excecutive than a club with a history or high status.
Because it is vital that you get support from those people in key positions within the club, that way you get time and more freedom to run the club amd make a success of it.
Hew Jenkins is a good supportive chairman, where as Daniel Levy isn't for exanple. One backs you the other bins you at first sign of a wobble.
09 Oct 2016 11:03:50
Very good article in NY times on Bradley's appointment. Candidates were asked specifically how they would set up in their first game in charge, and Bradley was able to provide detailed info on every player, their strengths/ weaknesses and the the role they would play. One of the British candidates (nothing indicates it was Giggs) said that he would get the players to work harder and run more.
Seems like it was simply the case of Giggs and the others been blown out of the water by a well prepared manager with decades of experience.
Giggs expected the United job to be handed to him, and probably expected the same with the Swansea job. His buddies in the media have even been saying that he shouldn't need to interview because he's Ryan Giggs. Being a fantastic player does not entitle you to one of the top 20 management jobs in England. But it looks like Giggs still hasn't learned that lesson, and instead of taking his slice of humble pie with good grace, he's prattling about being too big for the job.
09 Oct 2016 12:18:49
Sounds to me like he simply wasn't offered the job and that he has worded in such a way to illustrate that he didn't want it.
It really just sounds like he wasn't offered it.
Ed001 has made some very valid points somewhere else on the site. He gives his view and others within the games view on Giggs. Worth a search.
From my own standpoint I just wouldn't be able to take a man like him serious with what he has done recently.
I was a huge Giggs fan, one of my all time favourite players but what he did to his brother is just lowest of the low and I lost all respect.
09 Oct 2016 14:35:40
Angel can you then imagine Trump to be the #1 in the US? What a comedy.
09 Oct 2016 14:33:03
Herbie, of those 14 managers 4 were caretaker appointments while 1 was player manager and add to that 3 other managers namely rodgers, martinez and sousa left with mutual consent to other teams. So not that many when you take that into account is it?
09 Oct 2016 15:08:52
Ryan Giggs is destined for failure unfortunately. It doesn't matter what club he goes to, the emphasis from both fans of football and the media will always be placed on him instead of the results. For example, if he got the Swansea gig, it would always be "Ryan Giggs first game in charge ends with win/ loss/ draw instead of "Swansea beat blah blahh" and that will continue throughout the season. He's ****ed.
09 Oct 2016 15:29:03
Red absolutely pal. It's a mad world.
09 Oct 2016 19:30:49
Common sense
Ok we'll take that 4+1+3=8
That leaves 6 in 16 years, SCANDALOUS :-)