Swansea City’s loss to Stoke City highlighted the scale of the job Bob Bradley has on his hands to keep his team in the top flight.
Swansea City manager Bob Bradley
Swansea City were comfortably beaten by Stoke City on Monday night with former players Joe Allen and Wilfried Bony inspiring a night to forget for Bob Bradley’s men.
The loss meant Swansea remained five points from safety in 19th and with a tough run of fixtures, the table could make for even worse reading for the South Wales club.
Bob Bradley took the job under controversial circumstances with his appointment causing an upset among Swansea fans who fear an American revolution, with the new owners also being from the States.
Swansea City’s Alfie Mawson scores an own goal for Stoke’s second goal
The former USA boss faces a tough task to win over supporters and an even tougher task to keep his team in the premier league.
There was defensive error after defensive error in his side’s second half performance on Monday evening and there’s no sign of those mistakes being eradicated from their game.
Also, Swansea just don’t seem to have the quality in their squad to compete with the majority of teams in the division.
They have some brilliant individual talent in the likes of Gylfi Sigurdsson but there isn’t enough of it in the team and Huw Jenkins’ decision not to spend on big players in the summer, could well come back to haunt him.
Stoke City’s Wilfried Bony scores their first goal
Spanish strikers Fernando Llorente and Borja Baston have failed to acclimatise thus far, and Swansea desperately need a goalscorer to fire them out of trouble when other players aren’t performing.
There is no word on how much money Bradley will be given to improve his squad in January but on Monday evening’s evidence, he may need significant backing.
There is so much to address for Bob Bradley and he has no time to do it because before he knows it, he could be looking at an unrecoverable void between his team and Premier league safety.
Swansea City manager Bob Bradley
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