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Carvalhal 5th Swans manager in 2 years
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Swansea City hired Carlos Carvalhal as its fifth manager in barely two years yesterday with the task of keeping the disjointed team in the English Premier League.
The 52-year-old Carvalhal arrives in south Wales having parted company with second-tier northern English club Sheffield Wednesday on Sunday following a seven-game winless run that led to fans calling for his dismissal.
Swansea has taken a gamble on the journeyman Portuguese coach with no previous EPL coaching experience despite being bottom of the standings and five points from safety with 18 games remaining.
“In this moment, maybe if you ask 100 people who follow football, they will say Swansea are going to get relegated,” Carvalhal said. “This is the general idea. Maybe some people will say we need a miracle. But when things are in the hands of men, it’s not a miracle you need.
“It’s in our hands and we can manage things.”
Carvalhal has only been given a contract for the second half of the season at Swansea, but there is an option to extend it. Swansea has won one of its last 12 games, with the latest loss a 0-5 collapse at Liverpool on Tuesday.
“It will be tough,” Carvalhal said, “and we will need the support of everybody.”
Especially from restless American owners Stephen Kaplan and Jason Levien who fired Paul Clement last week before he completed a year in charge.
“We felt we needed to get the managerial situation resolved as soon as possible and while the timing is not always perfect, we can look forward to the second half of the campaign with renewed optimism,” Swansea chairman Huw Jenkins said.
It’s not the first time hiring Carvalhal has seemed a gamble. He had been out of work for three years when he was handed his first job in England in 2015 by Sheffield Wednesday. Before then, he had mostly drifted around jobs in Portuguese leagues but there were also stints in Greece and Turkey.
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