Is Clement the right choice?

​​​​​​​Paul Clement has been appointed as Swansea’s new head coach. The 44-year-old has a fascinating coaching background, but is he the right man keep the Swans in the Premier League?

After Bob Bradley’s ill-fated spell at the Liberty Stadium, it would have been understandable for Swansea to select a successor with rather more Premier League experience. The American lasted just 85 days in the job and left the club bottom of the table, but in Paul Clement they have appointed another coach with plenty to prove.

Clement’s coaching CV includes numerous spells working alongside some of the biggest names in football, but for all his time as Carlo Ancelotti’s assistant at Chelsea, PSG, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, his managerial experience amounts to just eight months in charge of Derby County in the Championship. He remains something of an enigma.

It makes his appointment a gamble, and it’s hardly surprising that the bookmakers are giving him little hope of keeping Swansea up. Clement is inheriting a dysfunctional side who have only won three times all season. They are seven points adrift of safety, confidence is on the floor, and in the last six games alone they have conceded 18 goals.

It all adds up to a massive task for such an inexperienced manager, but he returns to England with unfinished business. Clement took over at Derby on a three-year contract in June 2015, only for his tenure to come to an abrupt end following a seven-game winless streak midway through last season.

Clement’s brief spell at the iPro Stadium did …

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