Swansea Fans Have 'heard Too Many Excuses' - Tate

Club fable Alan Tate says Swansea City fans person "heard excessively galore excuses" successful caller seasons and that it is clip for nan club's players to present aft nan sacking of Alan Sheehan.

Swansea are seeking a 5th imperishable leader successful conscionable complete 4 years pursuing Sheehan's departure earlier this week.

Tate, who was portion of Steve Cooper's unit erstwhile Swansea reached nan Championship play-off last successful 2021, says nan nine request immoderate stableness aft excessively galore "poor decisions".

He has besides questioned whether Swansea's playing squad is bully capable to compete for a return to nan Premier League and says nan "only point consistent" astir his erstwhile nine is nan dedication of nan supporters.

"Honestly, nan committedness and nan desire of nan fans is unthinkable and if you tin get a squad that matches that, you're connected to a bully thing," said Tate.

"I deliberation they've heard excessively galore excuses complete nan past 4 years.

"Everyone now comes retired and says 'oh, sorry for this, sorry we sewage beat, sorry you travelled successful numbers and watched that'.

"The 1 point I cognize astir nan group of Swansea is you don't request to speak. Shut up saying sorry and show america you're sorry by playing good successful nan adjacent game."

Tate, 43, remains a fans' favourite astatine Swansea having played almost 350 games for nan nine aft joining arsenic a youngster – initially connected indebtedness from Manchester United – successful 2002.

He won 3 promotions pinch nan Swans and wore nan captain's armband successful their first Premier League game, astatine Manchester City, successful 2011.

"Speaking arsenic personification who's played for nan nine and happened to beryllium successful bully squads who achieved stuff, I retrieve getting beat," he added.

"I retrieve losing 4-0 astatine Reading and 5-1 astatine Blackpool and different disappointing performances, 3-0 astatine location to Middlesbrough.

"I can't retrieve coming retired and saying 'oh sorry' because we knew we had a group of players who would show they were sorry successful nan adjacent game."

Tate, who hails from nan northbound eastbound of England but has made his location successful Swansea, began his coaching profession successful nan club's academy earlier joining nan first-team unit nether Cooper successful 2019.

He departed aft Cooper's exit successful 2021, and has since worked alongside nan Welshman astatine Nottingham Forest, Leicester City and existent nine Brondy.

He says location person been signs of "a small spot of naivety" astatine Swansea successful caller times.

"I've seen them travel retired and opportunity guidance teams person said it's nan toughest crippled that they've had," Tate said.

"I deliberation you had that against Burnley erstwhile they won down here, Sheffield United erstwhile they won 4-0 up there. I was portion of a Forest squad that won 4-1 and 5-1 [in 2021-22 against Swansea].

"And past you're getting praised by managers who person conscionable beaten you. That can't beryllium good. What you want is managers to praise you aft you've beaten them.

"I deliberation group person been a small spot carried distant astir being praised for losing, which astir apt sums up wherever nan nine person been really."

Tate met Sheehan astatine Swansea's training crushed successful August and was impressed by nan Irishman.

"I liked him arsenic a guy, I liked really inquisitive he was astir nan nine and nan history and what it took to win astatine nan club," Tate said.

"For immoderate logic it hasn't worked out. I deliberation it's ever unfortunate erstwhile a head loses his job."

Tate has expressed his desire to negociate Swansea astatine immoderate constituent successful his profession but says, for nan moment, he and Cooper person "a batch of unfinished business together".

Hammarby's Kim Hellberg is nan favourite to win Sheehan, while Tate says he is "not actively looking" to go a leader successful his ain correct aft signing a three-year woody astatine Brondby successful September.

"I conscionable deliberation these jobs are each astir timing and it's astir apt not nan correct time," Tate said.

"Life successful Denmark's bully astatine nan minute, moving astatine an astonishing club."

Regardless of who takes complete from Sheehan, Tate argues, Swansea must see whether they person capable value wrong their playing staff.

"I deliberation convention table-wise complete nan past 4 years, [it] has ever been average," he added.

"You're looking complete that clip and you're going, are 4 managers wrong? I don't deliberation nan club's ever threatened nan play-offs since we sewage to nan play-off final.

"You look internally past astatine nan players, going look, are you conscionable not bully enough? Are you not accordant enough? Are nan demands not enough? Is it conscionable okay to play and spot really you get on?

"I deliberation there's been a deficiency of knowing really to triumph games, which is unusual really considering you look and they're not a young team. I deliberation everyone's 23, 25, 28, truthful you're not playing pinch kids.

"So I deliberation now whoever's going to beryllium nan caller manager, is he going to get it right? Has he sewage nan correct people? I don't know."

Tate watched Sheehan's squad tie pinch Watford successful August, erstwhile he met Brett Cravatt, who heads up Swansea's ownership group alongside Jason Cohen, and Adam Worth, nan club's world caput of analytics and recruitment.

"The 1 point I will opportunity astir some of them is they're very dedicated, knowledgeable and I deliberation they're successful it for nan agelong haul pinch nan club," he said.

"Their bosom and their desire is successful nan correct spot and now it's astir making decisions that are champion for nan nine moving forward."

As good arsenic changes successful nan dugout, Swansea's squad has been many times overhauled successful caller windows.

There has been a deficiency of consistency distant from nan pitch, too.

There was a takeover of nan nine 12 months agone which led to nan departure of president Andy Coleman, while Richard Montague's little stint arsenic head of shot came to an extremity successful September.

The likes of Leon Britton, Mark Allen, Paul Watson and Trevor Birch person besides held cardinal positions for comparatively short spells successful caller years.

"The turnover astatine nan nine has been acold excessively much," Tate said.

"I conscionable deliberation it needs stableness somewhere. You tin spell backmost to, which is nationalist knowledge, nan worldly pinch Andy Coleman successful nan fans' forum which was a disaster really.

"You look astatine group going 'listen to me, I'm your chairman'. No, no, you've sewage to gain these people's respect and their trust.

"It's easy for maine to beryllium here, successful a really bully occupation astatine Brondby, enjoying what I'm doing, an ex-player who's played X number of games.

"But I deliberation I tin speak for a batch of group erstwhile they conscionable want to say, 'just unopen up and show america really bully and committed you are'. I deliberation if that's your slogan, you're astir apt not excessively acold away."