I don't like Sousa and don't want him here but you are exaggerating quite a bit here. He inherited a squad that had done well but had got rid of quite a few of their best players. They were by no means an excellent squad. Swansea had a poor run in but didn't really show relegation form for a sustained period last season.
You're right - I am exaggerating but not "quite a bit".
We lost only two players - Jason Scotland and Jordi Gomez (who was only on loan with us anyway) but brought in David Cotterill, Craig Beattie, Trundle, Shefki Kuqi, Lopez (a PS signing from QPR who's our highest paid player but hardly ever players because he's simply not good enough) and others so our actual wage bill increased a lot under PS.
We still kept all of our defence, midfield and goalkeeper.
If you look at the stats from Jan 1st until the end of the season and applied that over a whole season, it was relegation form. Really!
Our form from September - December was superb and nobody saw what was coming after New Year. I think the players went from thinking "he's a double Champions League winner, he must know what he's talking about" to "he might have been a good player, but hasn't got a clue how to manage".
I think the key point about Sousa isn't that he doesn't understand football, but he doesn't know how to manage people. Players are not robots and no matter how much they earn, they need to be managed properly.
Maybe one of the reasons he doesn't manage well is because his English is very poor - I've seen him argue with a reporter who asked him a normal question but Paulo understood something quite different. I've seen so many situations when a reporter asks something like "which goal did you think was the best from a team perspective?" and Paulo answering "yes, I did". The room goes silent!
I'm probably boring a lot of you now but I am giving you the truth - warts and all.
