Youâve hit the nail on the head there. Swansea have the lowest net spend of all 20 EPL clubs. Conceding the same number of goals as Woolwich and fewer goals than Liverpool is mot much use when you have spendthrift owners selling attackers like Sigurdsson and Llorente, who were hugely influential players for Swansea.
Dyche is doing an incredible job. Bizarre that certain posters here were agitating for him to be sacked only a few months ago.
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Surely a straight shootout between Dyche and Pep for LMA manager or the year
Odd you werenât referencing net spends last year when you were backing Guidolin being sacked.
Also odd that you now make the same excuses for Spurs that you previously derided Wenger for making with Arsenal. Great to see Arsenal returning to being the top club in North London despite having a lower net spend than Spurs.
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Strange comment. Donât see the co-relation between Spurs recent poor run of form and the query you specifically addressed me on, Swanseaâs lack of goals this season. Swansea are averaging a goal every two games this season, you said. If the American owners in their wisdom decide to cash in on Sigurdsson for âŹ50 million and Llorente for âŹ15 million and donât replace them with players of the requisite standard (as evidenced by Swansea having the lowest net spend in the EPL for 2017/18), it was very foreseeable that Swansea would struggle for goals.
Llorente (15) and Sigurdsson (9) accounted for more than half of Swanseaâs EPL goals last season, 24 out of 45.
Maybe Clement shouldnât have splashed nearly ÂŁ20m on a guy who came through the football version of remedial class in Sam Clucas. Clement is the only manager of the bottom five yet to get the sack. If he was called Paolo Clementi, heâs have got his jotters a long time ago. Hard to see him survive defeat at Stoke this weekend. Time for Tony Pulls to come in and salvage Clementâs mess.
Clement has put Swansea on a sound defensive footing. Theyâve conceded 16 goals, the lowest in the bottom half of the EPL, the same number of goals conceded as Woolwich and two fewer than Liverpool. Since conceding 4 in the second game of the season to Man U, theyâve conceded on average just a goal a game, 12 goals in 12 league games. Contrast that to the defensive shambles of last season. Swansea had conceded almost double that tally at the corresponding stage of the season, 31 goals in 14 games. A club like Swansea, with one of the smallest budgets in the EPL just cannot afford to offload a prolific partnership like Llorente and Sigurdsson and expect to prosper.
Maybe if they tried to defend less and attack more they wouldnât be bottom of the table
Crystal Palace are bottom of the table.
A sound defensive footing that has them joint bottom?
Youâre living in the past you dinosaur, wins are now worth 3 times that of a draw. Scoring every second game is not going to cut it. He also happens to find himself level on points with the side who made the worst ever start to an EPL season. Itâs time for Clement to go.
He spent ÂŁ7m bringing Sanches in for 12 months, ÂŁ16m on Clucas, ÂŁ12m on Bony. Heâs made some major mistakes, Swansea are a mess thanks to him.
Would you say heâs a Clement Fraud?
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Manchester United have now been installed as favourites for this seasonâs Premier League, after evidence emerged of a Man City team photo in the dressing room following last nightâs win.
Team photos/selfies have proven to be the main reason for a club failing to win trophies, so Pep Guardiola will now be under huge scrutiny for allowing this to happen.
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Huge goal for Paul Clementâs hapless Swansea at Stoke. Youâd imagine Clement needs a result to save his job today.
He may soon need to be calling for Pochâs head. 1 down away at Watford.
Shaqiri levels matters against Paul Clementâs hapless Swansea.
A lot of talk during the week about Pochettinoâs book being partly responsible for the recent slump, I have it but havenât read it yet, surely giving away dressing room secrets isnât smart.
Stoke 2-1 up against Paul Clementâs hapless Swansea.