Twitter reacts to Swansea's whirlwind romance with Bob Bradley
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Swansea City’s American dream didn’t last long, with the club sending Bob Bradley packing a mere 85 days into his tenure on Tuesday.
Related: Swansea fires Bob Bradley after 85 days, 11 matches in charge
The well-travelled manager’s short-lived stay in Wales has uncovered spiky relations either side of the Atlantic Ocean. In his native land, Bradley’s dismissal has drawn sympathy and anger, and in the United Kingdom, an air of inevitably, disappointment at the British treatment of Bradley, and blame for Swansea’s faltering hierarchy has been voiced.
Here is the reaction stateside and in Blighty over Bradley’s sacking:
Soccer world:
There’s no doubt Bob Bradley would have improved Swansea given time. In the short term Bob’s remit was to get points. Screams Aston Villa.
— Joe Prince-Wright (@JPW_NBCSports) December 27, 2016
“Bob Bradley deserved to be fired.”
“Swansea are trash and he had very little time.”These are not mutually exclusive.
— Aaron W. Gordon (@A_W_Gordon) December 27, 2016
Brutal. He gets 10 games with someone else’s squad, and that’s it? No transfer window to improve? I know they had looked awful, but still.
— Thomas Rongen (@TRongen) December 27, 2016
Bob Bradley being jettisoned after 85 days isn’t so much a commentary on nationalistic myopia as it as on the league’s coaching myopia.
— Will Parchman (@WillParchman) December 27, 2016
Biggest issue for Swans is firing Bob Bradley doesn’t solve their problems. Now paying off two coaches while searching for miracle worker.
— Kyle Martino (@kylemartino) December 27, 2016
Bob Bradley didn’t get it done. There are reasons, but there are always reasons. It’s not about fair. Life isn’t fair and soccer isn’t fair.
— Alexi Lalas (@AlexiLalas) December 27, 2016
Tough to say Bradley “knew what he was getting into” w/out being privy to convos between him/mgmt – surely he thought he’d have the window.
— Pablo Maurer (@MLSist) December 27, 2016
Football world:
Bradley was obviously the wrong man for that job but some of the treatment he got was nevertheless ridiculous
— Tom Adams (@tomEurosport) December 27, 2016
Bob Bradley: wrong place at the wrong time just as fans’ relationship with the new owners was fracturing and the club ethos was changing
— Rob Harris (@RobHarris) December 27, 2016
Feel sorry for Bob Bradley. Not really sure what he was meant to do. Inherited another manager’s players and never got a transfer window.
— Joseph Barton (@Joey7Barton) December 27, 2016
Bob Bradley seemed a very decent, classy man but results created a pressure that made it impossible for him to survive.
— Phil McNulty (@philmcnulty) December 27, 2016
Wonder what ex-#Swans boss Francesco Guidolin is feeling now? For all the criticism he took, he did better with the same players.
— Rob Phillips (@robphillipshere) December 27, 2016
Bradley had to go, IMO. But good luck to whoever inherits that shambles of a defence. They don’t need organising. They need replacing.
— Stuart James (@StuartJamesGNM) December 27, 2016
As a footnote, Bradley is big enough to take any tactical or footballing criticism. The anti-American bias he faced from some was laughable.
— Dafydd Pritchard (@DafPritchard) December 27, 2016
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