The remarkable turnaround that Carlos Carvalhal has engineered at Swansea has come at a cost after it emerged eyebrows have been raised within the club at the level of 4G usage on the manager’s phone – something the Portuguese puts down to the combination of a slow internet connection at home and the amount of time he spends painstakingly analysing opponents.
Swansea have collected 10 points from five games under Carvalhal, including impressive back-to-back league victories over Liverpool and Arsenal to breathe new life into their troubled season. Getting the manager’s broadband up and running has proved to be much more difficult and has resulted in a rising mobile phone bill.
“Me and my staff do a lot of work – you don’t realise how many hours we discuss the opponents,” the Swansea manager said, before today’s game at Leicester. “I arrive at eight o’clock. Sometimes I go home at six o’clock or half six, it depends, but sometimes my staff are still working. I don’t know what time they leave because they are always working. When I leave to go home at six o’clock most of the time I go to analyse videos again.
“I was frustrated a little bit because the internet is very slow. The club must have spent a lot of money because I used the 4G. They said: ‘Hey, you are using a lot of 4G!’ I said: ‘Yes, because the internet is slow and I have to work.’ I used a lot of money and it wasn’t good but now the internet is OK.”
