What is wrong with the article ? i'ts dam pretty accurate to me, We are the minnows of the premiership after all who have been punching above our weight for many years, we are the masters of it and long may it continue, players like micu, bony, vorm and the majority of foreign players see us as a stepping stone and one foot to playing at a high level for a big club. Just look at bony for instance...He had a trial for Liverpool and was deemed not good enough, The toon virtually had michu on their books but eventually let him go as not quite good enough. So this is where clubs like ours come in for these players who have confidence in themselves that they can make it in the top flight. We benefit from these players also and not just making a profit from them, they help us to keep punching above our weight so that we can keep on playing the Man Utd/city, chelsea and Liverpool's of the top flight....
How can what he says be wrong, when most of us have wondered the very same thing, how no club has come in for Bony. So he isn't a swans fan and didn't gloss over the facts, like we are a small fish in a big pond. When the likes of Lambert is getting bought by Liverpool, surely Bony would surely be wondering why there was no interest in him, not to say he would take up the interest, but surely it would be a thought. Is that wrong too?
The big clubs have had a good look at bony and have analyzed his career from top to bottom and come to realize that they have got better or there are better out there, Bony wants first team football and not sit on the bench for most of the season and that will have been conveyed to clubs that don't view bony in this way, Im talking about the really big clubs here...£25m is a massive amount of money to take a chance on after having a good season for little old swans. would he be that effective for a big club is the question to risk £25m because plenty of players who were the top dogs at small clubs have struggled at a big club. Hopefully he will get his chance but while we wait we will get the benefits from him..
What? You either can't read or you seem to think it's OK to denigrate Swansea City in this way. This jerk isn't just saying that we're a small club (which is very true) but he is implying that we're unworthy of having such a good player playing for us. The whole tenure is one of 'how dare Swansea have an international footballer of stature!' He actually says that you cannot progress your career here. Has he (or you) thought about career progression if he gets another 20 for us this season? He's only 25 - plenty of time to go for a bigger club. The article was insulting in the extreme imo and fails to take account of the fact that he'll actually play for us instead of warming a bench. No 'career progression' there. "One has to feel sorry for Bony" Give me a break. The sooner our fans loose this inferiority complex the better. It's somethng that winds Jenkins up and me too. Of course there are bigger clubs out there - let's be honest most are - but that doesn't mean we can't achieve great things.
Most of us are well aware that Bony will go to play for a champions league side if he gets the chance. What's wrong with the article? It doesn't give us any information we don't already know. Journalism is supposed to inform and give an opinion and this article does neither. Therefore it's only purpose is to speculate, belittle and possibly try to unsettle Bony. It is gutter journalism at its worst.
Im not that bothered by the article. Im also a bit fed up of the whole Bony situation, the press seem to be doing their best to get him a move but we arnt the only club this happens to. It so far seems the big clubs arnt sure and are not prepared to back their judgement with money, if i was Bony id be looking at that as a sign that he wouldn't be going anywhere as a number 1 .The best thing for him is another season with us to prove himself to everyone, the club will get the oney they want and bony would get the move he wants and probably go there as a first choice player. Arsenal wont sign him and put him number 1,neither will Liverpool,Man city are sorted for strikers so are Chelsea, that leaves us with Spurs who are a gamble for any top player wanting to win things and progress career in terms of champions league. The landcape would change with another 20 goal season with us, it would prove the doubters wrong IMO . Hope he stays here one more season but you never know in football.
It doesn't really matter what they write whether it's right or not it will have no bearing on the outcome. Let's be honest can anyone see Wenger, Rogers or any other premiership manager taking a blind bit of notice of these articles, of course not, they have they're targets and will systematically work towards signing the players they want. Most of these articles are total fabrication but as they say if you throw enough balls in the air you'll eventually catch one.
And there was little old me thinking we were here to win footy games, how did I get it soooo wrong!.............. Talkshit are chavs didn't you know that?
I rarely agree with Phillip but will happily do so right now. "Making up the numbers"? wtf? The Prem has a history of teams doing well against the odds. Yes it's unlikely we'll get top four but it can be done. What's the point in being here if we don't make a go of it?
The problem with the article is that the author makes it sounds as if Bony leaving the Swans is the only logical step for the player. I'd argue that staying at a club where you're guaranteed first team football is most important that money when you're only 25.
