Swansea Supporters’ Trust express their disgrace after Graham Potters’ exit

The Swansea City Supporters’ Trust expressed their displeasure and disappointment following the exit of their manager to Brighton and has urged the club’s American owners to be “open and transparent” with fans as they seek to find a replacement for Graham Potter.

The 44-year-old was officially unveiled as Brighton’s new manager on Monday afternoon, just a week after the Seagulls made the bold call to part company with Chris Hughton who steered the club to finish at position 17on the EPL log.

Swansea had been eager to keep Potter at the club after leading them to a 10th-place finish in the Championship as well as taking them to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup in his debut campaign at the Liberty Stadium but the pressure from Brighton and coupled with his desire to exit forced them to bow out.

Potter chose to depart after less than a year in the job in South Wales, taking backroom staff Billy Reid, Bjorn Hamberg and Kyle Macaulay with him from Swansea to the south coast of England.

Swansea City manager Graham Potter and chairman Trevor Birch

In a statement, the Supporters’ Trust noted their disappointment at Potter’s exit following his efforts during the 2018/19 campaign highlighting the concern of fans that several members of the first team squad could follow Potter in heading for the exit door this summer.

The Trust went ahead to urge the club’s owners to be fully honest with the Jack Army during the process of finding Potter’s successor in a bid to ensure Swansea can build on what was an impressive season following the relegation from the Premier League.

“The Supporters’ Trust is disappointed to note today’s departure of Graham Potter and his coaching staff from our club.

The last 12 months has seen the club undergo an unprecedented level of upheaval. After relegation from the Premier League last summer, we saw the departure of most of our senior players, with their places in the squad being taken by talented youngsters from our Academy setup.

Whilst relegation from the Premier League brings inevitable financial consequences, it is clear that the scale of our issues has been exacerbated by historic mismanagement of our football club which, even now, we are still suffering from.

It is to the significant credit of Graham and his team that last season was relatively successful as we came close to gaining a play-off place and enjoyed an excellent run in the FA Cup. We also saw the club working towards regaining the footballing identity it had lost in previous seasons, with our fans once again enjoying entertaining, progressive football along with the development of some incredibly talented youngsters.

The Trust had hoped that this summer would finally see some much-needed stability at our club, however, it is not surprising that our management team were viewed as attractive propositions for others”.

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