Laudrups laissez-faire attitude....

Even if you don't completely agree with this piece you have to admit it's very well written.

http://sabotagetimes.com/football/swansea-inept-laudrups-laissez-faire-attitude-was-killing-our-team

 

Long gone is Rodgers' taut tiki-taka, Laudrup grew fat and lazy dining off one good season and the board were totally correct to send him out to pasture...

Let us attempt some regression therapy. Close your eyes and take yourself back to a childhood summer holiday. There you are, on a beach, admiring the excellent sandcastle you’ve taken ages to construct from scratch. Then a posh kid comes along and develops it further, creating exquisite ramparts, an elaborate bailey and complex moat systems that it becomes a vibrant Alhambra Palace. He then loses interest and kicks half of it over. Shocked, you’d be forgiven for not having anything further to do with the spoilt b******.

There are better off-the-shelf visuals which are analogous to current events; but for a Swansea fan, Chairman Huw Jenkins is you; clutching your black & white spade and watching your grand design and dreams collapse in the oncoming tides of relegation, because a self-centred brat ruined it.

Laudrup has in many eyes been shuffling on the Green Mile since last summer. Away on holiday; dining off a fabulously successful season for the Swans, stuffed to the gills with a fat contract and feeling somewhat insuperable that this provincial Welsh club feted him as a messianic figure who would have all his demands delivered to his feet by fawning celtic lackeys. However, like the old Ferrero Rocher Ambassador’s reception; the sweetmeats on offer would eventually make him fat, and his palace, like that of the sandcastle would be revealed to be built on collapsing foundations.

For militant ideologues; the thought of Laudrup cravenly using his agent Bayram Tumultu to destabilise the prudent steerage of the club to get his way, and the appalling slur on Jenkins’ integrity through Twitter was a crass betrayal of loyalty. The club had in many ways rescued Laudrup’s diminishing managerial stock as a one-season pony, a disinterested venture capitalist with a low attention span and seemingly carefree attitude in the face of crisis.

Laudrup did nothing to disassociate himself from Tumultu’s contemptible behaviour, and as such should have been sacked for breach of contract. Instead Jenkins blinked first; splashing out £12m and £5m respectively on Wilfried Bony and Jonjo Shelvey. Sums, that for many fans who carried begging buckets through the city centre or helped spruce up the North Bank with their own paint, were eye-watering. It somehow felt like protection racketeering, where the spoilt b****** returned to threaten complete demolition of that sandcastle unless you bought him an orange mivvy.

Consequently, Laudrup’s laissez-faire mind-set turned into a pernicious and soporific poison haunting the very structures of a game that rotated the turnip heads of punditry. Performances became progressively worse, evolving from the puzzling to the inept. The Liberty Stadium turned from a cascading volcano of decibel to a collective creaking ambience of sucking in through teeth like a car mechanic viewing your cracked exhaust pipe. Suddenly there was a sense that the horsemen of ambition, passion and ruthlessness -so evident during our Carling Cup run- had instead put on their onesies and novelty slippers, and parked their ever-fattening a***s on a couch named stupor.

Following the terrible West Ham performance, something had to be done. Jenkins and Leigh Dineen played a smart game here. The underwhelming activity in the transfer window and the imposition of Garry Monk onto the coaching team were inspired chess moves that would’ve exposed Laudrup’s vainglorious weaknesses and made his position as untenable as a Somerset potato farmer.

While fans bemoan the loss of Laudrup; bestowing him with that ‘true Jack’ emblem (which on reflection is now about as worthy as a Jim’ll Fix It badge); I make no apologies for any analysis of Laudrup as an egocentric, bread-head. It was always about Laudrup. It was always about the marketing of Laudrup. It was always about maximising his earnings potential. It’s not surprising then that he was one of the founders of the Danish conservative think-tank CEPOS, which aims to exploit the public sector and impose free-market reforms. One should not expect altruism or passion from a driven elitist multimillionaire. We should not mourn his passing.

But where does that leave Swansea? We now have people worthy of that ‘true Jack’ emblem (albeit) temporarily at the helm in time for the derby. Where Laudrup would’ve daubed the faces of his little Spanish pets with a damp nosegay before sending them out to face an aroused Cardiff, now we’ll be coming at them like those burning bulls in ’13 Assassins’. The players already have the tools; all they want now is an olfactory infusion of that perfume labelled ‘Passion’. Hopefully Garry Monk will be spraying it liberally around the dressing room to mask the stale odours of that hypnotic Laudrup nerve gas. Thank you, Huw. Now you can rebuild that castle.

Raise the pressure. - by Antony Thomas


Thought I'd copy and past it on here, great read and well presented case for the prosecution, I'm sure the defence will be along in a minute!............

 

Thanks Dragon For some reason I couldn't copy the text on my iPad.

 

No problem, a superb analysis of life under Laudrup that needed a visible presence on this thread, well spotted Pagan!.................

 

You would swear i wrote that or he has copied my numerous posts as i have been saying everything he has wrote for months.

 

Yes we know Dai! Leave it out will you, self praise is no recommendation, try and be magnanimous in you victory?

 

You could never write that eloquently Dai.

 

after all the abuse i had ....nay sir i deserve praise for sticking to what i knew was the truth and giving you the facts as i was told by insiders of the club....I knew i would be proved right in the end as i always do...

 

I was thinking that too!.....................

 

Yes but you bring it on your self most of the time, and I suppose you don't give out abuse?

 

i will always tell the truth as i have no reason to lie. If i mention something that i have been told by a creditable reliable persons and ex work mates then you can bet there is some truth or in most cases the absolute truth. I know stuff that i wont post on here because of getting people into trouble but the ones i do will be creditable and you have your own opinions then....It always comes out in my favor in the end as most long time poster will know. I know they know but they are not man enough to admit it....but i know alright...

 

Yes ok Dai..............................

 

well that's the way it is im afraid..

 

Bony and Shelvey were worth every penny and Laudrup deserved to spend that money from money we will get from selling players he brought in his first season. Jenkins just spent 4.5 million and all we got is his chest sticking out.

 

Your a humble chap then Dai?.........................

 

Bit of a mistake the contract extension, but it was only an Insurance policy for the big club vultures that back fired, that's the one bit Jenkins will be losing sleep over, though if we stay up, he'll be sleeping soundly in the knowledge that it will be lost in next years £70 Million bonanza!...........

 

3 seasons in the premier league and we haven''t spend a lot of money on transfers . The sale of Rodgers and Allen brought in more money than Bony and Shelvey cost . 3 season had to bring in, 150 million just for being in the premier, wonder were it all went?

 

Not been on here for a while, I like others got fed up with all the bickering that was going on but maybe, just maybe this will get us all together again. Dragonphil, I agree with you whole heartedly and that must have taken you a lot of thought and time and looking up long words in the dictionary to come up with that but I'm impressed, nice one. Only one word missing, Hywl. Monk and Curtis know that word and by golly we are going to need a lot of it if we are going to survive this season the way we are going. This is going to be a fight to the finish and the fight starts this weekend of that there is no doubt. We need to win this game, not only from the usual rivalry point of view but from a serious point of view, we have to get points to avoid relegation, the way our last results have been going, we are in trouble. Relegation would be a disaster for us, we have to win this game. Sorry Mr ML, thanks for all you did for us which was huge and took us to our first ever major cup win and entry into Europe which has been very interesting.I wish you well at your next club and I am sure they will be queuing up to sign you. I'm sorry to see him go but results, lets face it, in the league and is the most important thing for us at the moment, and they have been awful recently. They need inspiration and they need it now. There be a mass gathering of the 10 or so New York City Swans supporters club on Saturday, you at the Liberty, get behind that team as we will. We are Jacks and so are Gary Monk and Allan Curtis and if any one can pull us through this crisis, they can. Total support to them.

 

too many long words for you . all you've ever written about Laudrup was he was the worst without once giving a reason why you felt that way , so please don't insult posters intelligence any further by pretending Walter you're clever than you are .

 

Can I make one thing clear Newjersey, these are not my words, but the words of one Antony Thomas who's article is on the link of the original Op by Pagan, who could not copy and past the article with his Tablet. Still a great read I'm sure you'll agree....................