Next Swansea manager: Left-field contenders Giggs & Grant shorten

Jamie Clark, Sports Editor | December 11, 2015

Reports in Friday’s national press have had a huge effect on the next Swansea City manager market, with Welsh-born Manchester United assistant Ryan Giggs and Ghana gaffer Avram Grant emerging as surprise contenders.

Gambles on Giggs, Grant and Bergkamp

While former Sunderland and Brighton boss Gus Poyet remains Coral’s odds-on 10/11 favourite to succeed Garry Monk at the Liberty Stadium, a gamble on ex-Chelsea, Portsmouth and West Ham United coach Grant has clearly picked up momentum.

Reaching the Africa Cup of Nations final with the Black Stars earlier this year, Israeli coach Grant is a 6/1 shot to take on the Swans. He will hope to have better luck in the survival scrap than he did at Pompey or with the Hammers if appointed by Huw Jenkins, however.

Red Devils legend Giggs, meanwhile, is a 13/2 chance to launch his managerial career in his natives Wales, and he’s not the only Premier League performer from yesteryear that there’s been market movement on.

Ajax assistant Dennis Bergkamp, best known for his 11 years at Arsenal and scoring that goal against Argentina at the 1998 World Cup for the Netherlands, has also propelled up the betting to be 6/1 joint second-favourite alongside Grant.

Di Matteo maybe, but not Moyes or Rodgers