After leaving Liverpool at the same time as Klopp in 2024, Matos spent time with Lijnders at Red Bull Salzburg before taking over at Maritimo.<\/p>\n
That was only five months ago, his only senior role, but it is far from the first time Swansea have given rookies a chance.<\/p>\n
Most notably, Roberto Martinez – now manager of Portugal’s Nations League-winning national side – was still a 33-year-old player when he was announced as Swans boss.<\/p>\n
And there have been newcomers such as Garry Monk, who led Swansea to their record Premier League points tally and eighth place, while Graham Potter and Steve Cooper had not managed in senior club football in England before their appointments.<\/p>\n
Matos is different. Despite his coaching pedigree, he has just 12 games as a frontline boss with Maritimo.<\/p>\n
“I understand if that’s something that could concern some people,” said Matos.<\/p>\n
“But at the same time, I feel completely prepared. If I was not prepared, I would not be here and I hope that in one or two months everyone feels much more confident with everything.<\/p>\n
“I’m here to try and to turn it around that’s for sure.”<\/p>\n
Swansea chief executive Tom Gorringe said the Championship club made use of statistical analysis during the recruitment process, metrics from Matos’ time at Maritimo placing him on the list of candidates before a detailed presentation on what is needed at Swansea won him the job.<\/p>\n
Matos also had the blessing of some former players who were consulted, not to mention minority owner Modric, the Croatia and Real Madrid great.<\/p>\n
“He was included in the process, not directly, so he’s due to speak to Vitor shortly but hasn’t done so yet,” said Gorringe, adding that the two were due to speak in more detail in the coming days.<\/p>\n
“Luka’s been aware of a lot of the process as we move through it. He was privy to the technical presentation and got the chance to review that – and he was a strong advocate of where we’ve ended up.<\/p>\n
“The more information that becomes available the more research you do, the more conversations you have, that risk level reduces. <\/p>\n
“Throughout the process, Vitor’s been exemplary in every single area and ultimately you get more information and you do more due diligence, and you get more of a feeling for each other and how it’s going to work.<\/p>\n
“As we’ve gone through that process, we’ve just become more and more convinced this is the right fit.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After leaving Liverpool at the same time as Klopp in 2024, Matos spent time with Lijnders at Red…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-157813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}