I would love to see Cooper again in Swansea – Robinson

Andy Robinson says that the president of Swansea City, Andy Coleman, “just had to do things well” while looking for a replacement for Luke Williams, dismissed as chief coach after 13 months in charge.

And Robinson, the favorite of fans of the ancient-wans, says that he would like to see the former boss Steve Cooper in the role, although he admits that it is “very ambitious”.

Williams left with Swansea 17th on the second level after a seventh defeat in nine games at Stoke City on Saturday.

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“It had to happen,” said Robinson who watched the match at the Bet365 stadium for the BBC Radio Wales.

“Unfortunately, in football, the male will always stop with the manager. He selects the team, he brings the players and as I said on Saturday if there was never a football match that Luke Williams was going to win In this bad shape of form was this game.

“Unfortunately, he never obtained victory and to lose 3-1, I think the writing was on the wall.”

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While Williams paid the price for an alarming form in shape that saw Swansea slip to the last three with 13 remaining league matches, President Coleman and the club’s board of directors are also under fire for a series of Disappointing meetings and bad recruitment.

“They have to make sure that the new boss arriving is the right one because it has been drastic at the football club for two or three years and take small steps and not really go anywhere,” added Robinson.

“I think that the greatest thing about the structure and composition of the football club is an element of confidence, and the element of confidence of the board of directors, which has certainly played their role in all of this.

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“From manager to the president and the president to the manager and to the players and when you lose this in any football club, it is difficult to come back.

“You thought Luke Williams was going to be the man but he [Coleman] Just get it now. To make the football club advance [it] must be done correctly. “”

Deputy head coach Alan Sheehan was named Boss Caretaker for the second time “on a provisional basis”, with Swansea claiming that the search for a permanent successor in Williams is “already underway”.

Cooper, 43, left the championship club in 2021 after running Swansea to the playoffs at each of its two seasons in charge.

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He then took Nottingham Forest in the Premier League via the play-offs and kept them in the elite for a season before losing his job at City Ground. He has been without work since a 12 game spell in charge of the Premier League Leicester City at the start of this season.

“There is a man who has made an absolute world of work at the football club, Steve Cooper,” said Robinson.

“That he abandons a level, I would like to see him again at the football club but it is very ambitious.”

“Swansea problems are deeper”

Another former Swansea player, the former Wales midfielder Owain Tudur Jones, has sympathy for Williams and thinks that Coleman and the owners of the club are also guilty for recent failures.

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“I don’t think he [Williams] had to go, “Jones said on the Dros Frecwast program of BBC Radio Cymru.

“I think the pressure rose, yes, but it’s as simple as this: if you lose matches, then the pressure is on you as a chief coach, in any football club.

“I think the problems are deeper. If we return to January, only a few weeks ago, President Andy Coleman came out and said:” Luke Williams is the perfect manager for this football club “.

“So many things have changed since … Yes, until the race, but the problems are deeper because, if we assess Swansea because they have been relegated to the Premier League, Graham Potter remained a season, then was Passed to a better job for him in the Premier League, Steve Cooper left under a cloud after a few years, Russell Martin left the club under a cloud.

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“We are talking about good managers here. But none of them stayed too long because of problems behind the scenes.”

Asked about what was to change, Jones said: “Naturally, the new owners often want to put their own stamp on things, which often means a change in management.

“But we have not seen anything since the new owners came. This is what January was all fine, to see how much money there was to invest, and nothing. So, the problems are more deep, and I hope now we can bring the right person to enter.