Harry wanted to do it the Swansea way

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Brendan had Watford playing hoofball until the Swans, coached by Roberto, turned up at Vicarage Road in a Championship match. I remember reading an article where Brendan admitted that although Watford won 2-0 he was so impressed by Swansea's style of football that he tried to copy it.

Not long after that he went to Reading and tried to implement it and got kicked out - because it takes years to establish. After a period on the scrapheap he arrived at Swansea and took over the reins from Roberto.

I had to laugh when I read 'Arry said he asked Rogers to go to the Euro Champs - as though the system could be implemented overnight <laugh>

Is it the Swansea Way? Of course it is - the Club has a strategy of playing passing football which was established in the lower leagues. Having said that we followed the Spanish Way - but we've got the UK copywright <laugh>
 
Quite simply, the Swansea Way is the Huw Jenkins Way. It's not the Flynn, Jackett, Martinez, Sousa, Rodgers or Laudrup Way. The board made a conscious decision to change the way we play when we hired Martinez. They wanted to grow and progress with an image, a style, that stood out. The fact is that it didn't have to be Martinez. He got the job, he implemented the style. We gave him his first management job and poached him from Chester. Playing in the Conference. Not that great an idea really in theory. But if it wasn't Martinez, there would have been somebody out there who wanted the challenge of transforming us. Since then, we don't hire a manager because of their ideas and philosophies. We hire managers because they they agree to go along with our ideas and philosophies. The Swansea Way.

It didn't have to be Martinez, Sousa, Rodgers, or Laudrup. There are loads of managers out there that fit our style. These are the lucky 4 guys that got the job. Laudrup is probably the only one where I feel lucky to have him. I mean, Rodgers had just spectacularly failed at Reading when we got him. When it looks like we're taking a chance to a normal football club, actually, we're making a calculated decision with barely any risk involved.

It's so clearly the Swansea way. Martinez and Rodgers are currently managing the two Merseyside giants. Sousa is on record saying that he regrets leaving. We make managers look better than they are. Why? Because we have continuity. Because when managers come to our club, we've picked them because we already know that they fit our system. They don't need to change anything here to have success. Just be yourself and it will fall into place.

If you're used to a Sky remote control and purchase Sky TV, it's easy to operate. If you purchase Virgin TV, it takes time to get used to the new remote control and adapt. We use Sky at Swansea. And we only employ managers who use Sky. In the words of Ace Ventura, "Like a glove".
 
To go back to the original post - Harry Redknapp wanted Rodgers solely because he was the manager of Swansea at that time. If I took anything from the article posted, it's that the FA should be run by Huw Jenkins.
 
bigkidderz said:
If you're used to a Sky remote control and purchase Sky TV, it's easy to operate. If you purchase Virgin TV, it takes time to get used to the new remote control and adapt. We use Sky at Swansea. And we only employ managers who use Sky. In the words of Ace Ventura, "Like a glove".
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WTF?? :D What if you have got freeview in Swansea? What if you purchase the Sky package on Virgin? What team are you if you stream live Sports?? #wtfconfused
 
swimaway said:
WTF?? :D What if you have got freeview in Swansea? What if you purchase the Sky package on Virgin?
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;) Throw FreeSat, TalkTalk and BT into the mixer and you've got a true TV Provider merry-go-round. This analogy is becoming more and more realistic by the second!
 
bigkidderz said:
Quite simply, the Swansea Way is the Huw Jenkins Way. It's not the Flynn, Jackett, Martinez, Sousa, Rodgers or Laudrup Way. The board made a conscious decision to change the way we play when we hired Martinez. They wanted to grow and progress with an image, a style, that stood out. The fact is that it didn't have to be Martinez. He got the job, he implemented the style. We gave him his first management job and poached him from Chester. Playing in the Conference. Not that great an idea really in theory. But if it wasn't Martinez, there would have been somebody out there who wanted the challenge of transforming us. Since then, we don't hire a manager because of their ideas and philosophies. We hire managers because they they agree to go along with our ideas and philosophies. The Swansea Way.

It didn't have to be Martinez, Sousa, Rodgers, or Laudrup. There are loads of managers out there that fit our style. These are the lucky 4 guys that got the job. Laudrup is probably the only one where I feel lucky to have him. I mean, Rodgers had just spectacularly failed at Reading when we got him. When it looks like we're taking a chance to a normal football club, actually, we're making a calculated decision with barely any risk involved.

It's so clearly the Swansea way. Martinez and Rodgers are currently managing the two Merseyside giants. Sousa is on record saying that he regrets leaving. We make managers look better than they are. Why? Because we have continuity. Because when managers come to our club, we've picked them because we already know that they fit our system. They don't need to change anything here to have success. Just be yourself and it will fall into place.

If you're used to a Sky remote control and purchase Sky TV, it's easy to operate. If you purchase Virgin TV, it takes time to get used to the new remote control and adapt. We use Sky at Swansea. And we only employ managers who use Sky. In the words of Ace Ventura, "Like a glove".
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Pepped <ok>
 
swanselona said:
Now other than a few English players in our setup, Britton, Dyer, Routs, then England would not really benefit from the Swansea way, as much as they would by bringing in Rodgers, now that is not to say it is the Rodgers way, but Rodgers had already been given a season with us, and learning the best way to train our brand of football.

If it was as you keep asking, the Rodgers way, then Swansea wouldn't have played it prior to him. Rodgers just had the experience with working with such a system, which other than Martinez, and Sousa, there are no other real candidates. I reckon the fact that Martinez isn't British would be the only reason why Rodgers was Arry's preferred choice.

Also the fact Liverpool were lucky to get a point at the Liberty recently will go to show how much the Swansea way is what people are after, not the Rodgers way ;)
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That match was an example of the 'Shelvey way'...
 
bigkidderz said:
Quite simply, the Swansea Way is the Huw Jenkins Way. It's not the Flynn, Jackett, Martinez, Sousa, Rodgers or Laudrup Way. The board made a conscious decision to change the way we play when we hired Martinez. They wanted to grow and progress with an image, a style, that stood out. The fact is that it didn't have to be Martinez. He got the job, he implemented the style. We gave him his first management job and poached him from Chester. Playing in the Conference. Not that great an idea really in theory. But if it wasn't Martinez, there would have been somebody out there who wanted the challenge of transforming us. Since then, we don't hire a manager because of their ideas and philosophies. We hire managers because they they agree to go along with our ideas and philosophies. The Swansea Way.

It didn't have to be Martinez, Sousa, Rodgers, or Laudrup. There are loads of managers out there that fit our style. These are the lucky 4 guys that got the job. Laudrup is probably the only one where I feel lucky to have him. I mean, Rodgers had just spectacularly failed at Reading when we got him. When it looks like we're taking a chance to a normal football club, actually, we're making a calculated decision with barely any risk involved.

It's so clearly the Swansea way. Martinez and Rodgers are currently managing the two Merseyside giants. Sousa is on record saying that he regrets leaving. We make managers look better than they are. Why? Because we have continuity. Because when managers come to our club, we've picked them because we already know that they fit our system. They don't need to change anything here to have success. Just be yourself and it will fall into place.

If you're used to a Sky remote control and purchase Sky TV, it's easy to operate. If you purchase Virgin TV, it takes time to get used to the new remote control and adapt. We use Sky at Swansea. And we only employ managers who use Sky. In the words of Ace Ventura, "Like a glove".
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That's a tad simplistic if you ask me, no way did our board have a master plan of the way things developed to what they are now, based on Martinez Spanish style, yes we as a club and fans have always insisted on getting the ball down on the deck, but to say that the foundations Martinez laid was the Jenkins way, is bloody absurd, as at the time they had Dean Saunders on the short list after his interview, and that alone tells you something about the speculation of our board at the time regarding football philosophy. Jenkins simply bought into the cheap stock of Spanish players that Martinez could lay his hands on, and his vision for securing football success with his continental style of keep ball.

I bet the tight fisted git that Jenkins was, couldn't believe his luck, when Martinez started bringing in such cheap talent, more bloody luck than judgment if you ask me, but no doubt he's been a great chairman, but it is in no way, 'the Jenkins way', get real man!........<ok>
 
DPJ: Sometimes things work out through a stroke of good fortune, sometimes by design. Jenkins may have had some luck early doors but that was a long long time ago. Jenkins is one of the most admired chairmen in the Premiership due to his running of a very tight ship and his (and the Board's) astute decisions since those days. We have developed year upon year long after Martinez' departure and this is down to decisions taken at the highest levels at the Club. Martinez' contribution to our style was massive though - I accept that.

He takes no crap from bloodsucking leech agents (Tutumlu was sent packing with a flea in his ear) and his dealings with other clubs on transfers etc have been mainly excellent, with a few exceptions. Both he and the Board now insist that any prospective managerial candidate fits us, not the other way around and this is crucial to our Club and the way we play.

The Swansea way = The Jenkins way? You'd better believe it.
 
I agree with how you have put it there Knackered, but I think that to say that Jenkins had a vision in the night of how we were going to develop as a continental style of possession football, is way of the mark, that style can only be attributed to Roberto Martinez, it was he, and he alone that sold his vision to the board, and developed it on the field of play, and in fairness to Martinez his only one weakness was defence, and it could be argued that the board and Jenkins did the right thing in bringing in a defencive coach such as Sousa, to sort that out, which he did very well in fact.

I'm not trying to undermine our board and the way they have so well over the years been financially prudent in running the club, but to ascribe to them what Martinez did, is to steel all due credit to Roberto, anyway the project continues under Laudrup, and I'm sure in the fullness of time, all managers will be seen to have had a positive input, though for me, Roberto will be the one who remains the architect of our game today!..................<ok>
 
What's wrong Sisu? Is you pissed off because Martinez has succeeded in doing with Everton what Brenda is still trying to do with your lot after 15 months <laugh>
 
I gather Arry was on Talksport today, did here a little snippet and he mentioned Swansea and Wigan, so is it the Martinez way!!! Maybe a clever bugger can put up the interview on here!!!
 
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