Ryan Giggs is currently the surprising name to be considered as the next Swansea manager to replace Garry Monk.
Swansea City are reportedly ready to assess the managerial intentions of Ryan Giggs before making a final decision about who will be the successor of Garry Monk at the Liberty Stadium.
Giggs, right now assisting Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal, has made it clear that he wants to pursue a career in management. The 42-year-old United legend is has been seen as one of the leading candidates to replace van Gaal at Old Trafford when the Dutch tactician’s current contract expires at the end of 2016-17 season.
However, Swansea are investigating every possible option, and the Welsh club are now said to be ready to discuss with Giggs offering him the managerial post as the former Wales international is poised to consider leaving Manchester United to start his own managerial career instead of a assistant job.
Brendan Rodgers already rejected the possibility of returning to his former club whom he left in 2012 in order to take charge of Liverpool and Swansea are going through several candidate profiles to succeed Monk; but the prospect of tempting Ryan Giggs to the South Wales club would be regarded as a major move and would also relate to the club chairman Huw Jenkins’ plan of bringing in emerging coaches who prefers attacking football.
Cardiff-born Giggs, who played 63 matches for Wales, started coaching career as a player-coach under David Moyes after Alex Ferguson’s retirement as United manager in 2013. As Moyes was sacked in April 2014, Giggs took charge of the Red Devils as a caretaker manager for four matches before being named as the assistant to Louis van Gaal to groom him to take charge on a permanent basis after current United manager van Gaal decides to leave.
Now that van Gaal is moving closer to his final 18 months of the contract, it is not clear what the club’s intentions are, with ex-Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti confirming this week that he would be interested to take charge of the Red Devils when van Gaal’s departs.
With his former United team-mate Gary Neville now managing La Liga side Valencia, Giggs’s lack of management experience could eventually cost him the top job at Old Trafford. This is the realisation Swansea is trying to exploit if Giggs doesn’t receive any assurance from the Manchester United hierarchy that he is still regarded as one of the top contender to manage the club.
Swansea will not make any appointment before this weekend’s trip to Manchester City in the Premier League.
Tempting Ryan Giggs from Old Trafford would be a tough challenge, but the prospect of starting a managerial career in Premier League with a club considered as being well-run could yet help Swansea to be successful.