{"id":251961,"date":"2025-11-08T21:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T21:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251961\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T21:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T21:48:07","slug":"alan-sheehan-insists-he-is-right-man-to-lead-swansea-city-after-ipswich-mauling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251961\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Sheehan insists he is right man to lead Swansea City after Ipswich mauling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sheehan, who signed a three-year deal in April after an impressive spell as interim boss, added: &#8220;I think that nothing good comes easy. I think where we are within football, every manager goes through spells where they don&#8217;t win consistently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You need to be very strong. You need to be confident and believe in what you do, and I do believe that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think we get so many plaudits from opposition managers and staff about what we do, but we need to turn some of those performances and what we do into wins.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is the most difficult spell of Sheehan&#8217;s brief managerial career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He revived Swansea after taking the reins in February so successfully that they began this season with belief that they could push for a play-off place, particularly after a summer transfer window which was widely regarded as the club&#8217;s best in years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheehan, who signed a three-year deal in April after an impressive spell as interim boss, added: &#8220;I think&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-251961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}