{"id":26363,"date":"2025-02-17T18:16:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T18:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/luke-williams-head-coach-leaves-swansea-city-after-slump-in-form\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T18:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T18:16:48","slug":"luke-williams-head-coach-leaves-swansea-city-after-slump-in-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/luke-williams-head-coach-leaves-swansea-city-after-slump-in-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Williams: Head coach leaves Swansea City after slump in form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Swans were 16th in the Championship when he arrived, having taken 11 points from seven games under Sheehan during his previous spell as caretaker boss, which came following the sacking of Michael Duff in December 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite some difficult days in the early part of his tenure, Williams led Swansea to a 14th-placed finish last May and set out this season hoping to make steady progress while developing the young players in his squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was on course to achieve those goals until the collapse in 2025 which has prompted his exit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams goes just as Richard Montague, who he worked with at Notts County, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/crlk79dg8zyo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">takes up the role of director of football<\/a> at Swansea. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams felt Montague&#8217;s arrival would assist Swansea&#8217;s off-field operations, having been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ckg0pvy21gvo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">critical of the club&#8217;s failings<\/a> in the mid-season window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Blackburn, Swansea have 10 days without a fixture before they go to Preston on 4 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will keep supporters informed of developments when we are in a position to announce a new head coach, while Alan, his staff and our squad focus on our upcoming fixtures,&#8221; Coleman added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swansea, meanwhile, have postponed a much-anticipated fans&#8217; forum which had been due to take place on Tuesday, 18 February until Monday, 3 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams and Coleman had been due to answer supporters&#8217; questions at the event, but Swansea say they have put it back as a result of Williams&#8217; exit. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cwyjy75xz8po\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swans were 16th in the Championship when he arrived, having taken 11 points from seven games under Sheehan during his previous spell as caretaker boss, which came following the sacking of Michael Duff in December 2023. Despite some difficult days in the early part of his tenure, Williams led Swansea to a 14th-placed finish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26365,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26363\/revisions\/26365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}