He's been sacked to remove the constant uncertainty surrounding the club apparently. What does that mean? Did he have his eye elsewhere?
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It's likely that he's probably just not got on with the chairman and it just wasn't going to work for whatever reason. It would just seem a bit bizarre for them to sack him on results alone when you consider what he did last season.
Moyes now up to 19th in the leagues best manager table.
Wow, strange sacking, there must be a reason behind this?
Their form since winning the cup has been awful.
Surely this is worthy of a new thread?
Don't see how they could do much better than him
Despite them doing pretty well during his tenure, there always seemed to be report of something going on between him and the chairman.
Hope he remains in England anyway, the Premier League could do with more managers like him. Charismatic and play progressive football.
I imagine this is more to do with off the field problems, he seemed to have a pretty fraught relationship with the chairman at the best of times. They've not been great this season, but in fairness to him the Europa league pretty much always has that effect on the smaller clubs.
Interesting to see who they replace him with though.
Interesting to see who they replace him with though.
Never really understood the fascination with him to be honest. Pretty much a step down from the previous two managers.
Any man that sees Shelvey as the long term answer in a premiership midfield has to have eyebrows raised. Injuries or no injuries.
Any man that sees Shelvey as the long term answer in a premiership midfield has to have eyebrows raised. Injuries or no injuries.
And people wanted to hire him for United.
Assuming their new man will have to fit their footballing philosophy it will be interesting to see who they go for.
They have been in freefall since last March.
Can't say I'm surprised.
Hence the term pretty well during his tenure. Overall he hasn't done a bad job. Their downfall this season is as a result of Michu being injured I think and last season was just a team being safe and having nothing to play for.
Swansea have been really poor in 2013. He's obviously a good enough manager but I don't rate him as highly as some.
Derby coming up this weekend too. Strange timing.
Derby coming up this weekend too. Strange timing.
Mental. This is what happens when you get put in the Europa League with a small squad (see Newcastle last season). Absurd decision. I thought they were meant to be good football people. Bizarre.
Not sure if this is true but sounds like they're putting Garry Monk in charge until the end of the season. 
Mental.
Mental.
They must have looked at the table and got a little worried. It's so tight at the bottom with just one game separating even 11th place from the relegation zone.
I can't really see them being able to replace him with someone better.
Most journalists when asked about Swansea during the summer said that they didn't see him as manager in a year's time. I think this probably goes quite a bit deeper than just results.
They will. Jenkins is the master of appointing managers.
Óscar García from Brighton? They've similar philosophies to Swansea, don't they?
They've tried for Graeme Jones, Martinez's assistant, on a number of occasions before now. Maybe him?
Depends on who the caretaker manager is to be fair.
What an absolute joke
Yeah tbf their last 3 have all done good jobs now that I think of it.
Depends. This isn't a good time of year to be picking a manager. Do you bring someone in for the future, and possibly get relegated, or do you go for a safe pair of hands and either stick with them if they keep you up, or reassess in the summer?
There were reports earlier this week of the Everton Assistant being offered the job at the end of the season as Laudrup wanted to leave. Apparantly he was offered it before but felt he wasn't ready.
Maybe he was giving it large in the boardroom because he's big Micky Laups. Demanding more money for big players or he'd go elsewhere and Jenkins just said yeah feck you Mick. We don't need you.
They'd also been playing pretty shit, much more direct than previous years with Shelvey at the head of everything
They'd also been playing pretty shit, much more direct than previous years with Shelvey at the head of everything
We should sign him up, as a player.
Pretty odd they've already given the job to Garry Monk. As far as I can tell he has absolutely no coaching experience whatsoever, i'm sure he's respected there but its a hell of a risk to throw someone with no experience in to a relegation battle, certainly didn't work well with Shearer. The good will he has there as a player won't save him if they lose to Cardiff next game.
Pellegrini is now the tenth longest serving manager in the Premier League. 
Wonder if they'd consider luring Moyes away from Old Trafford.
Would he make a good #2 for United? At least to get us playing a more progressive style of football which goes beyond "we got the to the byline 8 or 9 times".
Highly doubt he'd be interested in an assistant role.
It's madnessPellegrini is now the tenth longest serving manager in the Premier League.
Needs to prove himself before he makes the jump.
I think he had no intention of staying next season so it was really just a case of when he left.