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Swansea/Laudrup boardroom crisis

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Relations between Swansea City and Michael Laudrup slumped to a new low last night, with the club severing all ties to their manager’s representative.
Sportsmail can reveal that a massive ruction between chairman Huw Jenkins and Laudrup’s agent of more than 20 years, Bayram Tutumlu, is partially behind the bust-up that is highly likely to lead to the Dane’s departure this summer.
In a series of damning allegations, senior officials at the club have claimed that Tutumlu has been attempting to dictate and control the club’s transfer policy for months and they have now taken the step of preventing him from holding any authorisation to recruit or sell players.'


Among the most provocative allegations emanating from the club concerns a moment in the closing stages of last season when Tutumlu is said to have declared his intention to sell Ashley Williams.
Jenkins opposed the suggestion and the incident is understood to have triggered a huge showdown between the pair and a shouting match, virtually destroying the club’s relationship with an advisor Laudrup has turned to since his playing days at Barcelona.
Further claims have been made that Tutumlu insisted all new players are signed through him, while he is also said to have met prospective signings without Jenkins’ or the club’s knowledge. A further allegation is that Tutumlu attempted to scupper deals the club have arranged via other agents in Europe.


Tutumlu responded by calling Jenkins a ‘liar’ and insisted he had made no money on any of the deals he has been involved in.
He told Sportsmail: ‘Everything I have done at the club has been on behalf of Michael Laudrup. I have made no money from it. The club has never paid me to do work for them. The work I have done has been to help Michael, to help Swansea and it has all been done the correct way. I have done nothing wrong.’
He added: ‘Huw Jenkins is a liar. If he wants to say things about me, he should show his balls and do it face to face, in front of television cameras.’
Intriguingly, the club has not banned Tutumlu from the Liberty Stadium or the training facilities for fear that Laudrup will claim his position has been made untenable. There is a strong suspicion among the Swansea board that the 48-year-old is trying to engineer a way out of the club.
Laudrup and Jenkins have spoken by phone this week, but the Swansea board have lost almost all hope of keeping their manager.

The latest twist follows the peculiar developments on Tuesday, when the club is understood to have rejected Laudrup’s suggestion that they sign West Brom striker Peter Odemwingie.
In an indication of the distrust that is currently circling the Liberty Stadium through this saga, there is a firm belief at the club that the proposal of a 31-year-old striker with a difficult recent history was made in the full expectation that Jenkins would refuse to sanction a move, thus giving Laudrup grounds for complaint.
The club’s decision not to back the move followed the recent collapse of transfers for Iago Aspas, who has joined Liverpool, and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of St Etienne. The message coming from the Laudrup camp over the past fortnight, and supported by a Laudrup statement at the end of last week, has been that Laudrup was promised a ‘strong team’ for next season and is unhappy that it has not yet materialised.


Laudrup met with Tutumlu in Mallorca yesterday in order to discuss the rapidly-deteriorating situation, which comes just four months after the Dane led Swansea to Capital One Cup glory at Wembley.
Sources close to Brighton’s suspended manager Gus Poyet have indicated that the Uruguayan would be keen to take a job he was heavily linked with when Brendan Rodgers left for Liverpool last summer.
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Don't see Laudrup at swansea next season,

His agent doesn't sound particularly pleasant, not someone I'd want around Everton
 


It sounds like Swansea would be better off getting rid, that Tumulus bloke sounds like a bit of a knob.
 
Marco Materazzi said:
We shoulda waited. Then we could have got him. T'is a shame, we can't rest on our laurels.
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haha. yes, we should have waited around (because kenwright has the benefit of hindsight) for a mercenary to employ him for 1 year before he jibs us off like he's going to do swansea. definitely sounds like someone i want as boss of everton.

poor old swansea, 5 managers in a row to jib them off i think? most of them after 1 season
 
toffeejack said:
haha. yes, we should have waited around (because kenwright has the benefit of hindsight) for a mercenary to employ him for 1 year before he jibs us off like he's going to do swansea. definitely sounds like someone i want as boss of everton.

poor old swansea, 5 managers in a row to jib them off i think? most of them after 1 season
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That they have kept doing well suggests that its not that much about the manager - even if he does have a dossier, or look a bit like that Jaime Lannister.
 
Tbh I don't hate the Lannisters as much now. I've grown on Cersei, Jamie and Tywin. Always liked Tyrion, and always hated that c*** Joffrey. I am open to new ideas, if ya know wha I myean ;)
 

Bayram Tutumlu ‏@BayramTOficial 53m
Swansea City Fans, you gonna see the real face of huw jenkins...
because he is lying so many times!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/2AkdgIzkji
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That's from Laudrup's agents offical twitter
 

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