Bradley to keep fighting

Bob Bradley is working in 'every possible way' to help turn Swansea's season around.

The Swans dropped to the bottom of the Premier League table after last week's heavy defeat at Tottenham and they face another tricky game against fellow strugglers Sunderland on Saturday.

Bradley has only won once in seven games since succeeding Francesco Guidolin as manager and he is reported to be fighting for his future at the Liberty Stadium after the dismal start to his tenure.

With the club struggling Bradley accepts he is under pressure but he insists he is doing all he can to improve his team's fortunes.

“A long time ago I said to my wife that I had a meeting, and she asked me if I would still have a job afterwards," Bradley said ahead of Saturday’s game.

“I said ‘Who knows?’. That’s football. You go in every day and at any moment the club can say ‘We need to make a change’.

“But if you worry about that, the players will spit you out fast. They will see through you. If I am telling the players they have to look adversity in the eye and have some courage, then I have got to do that too.

“I continue to work in every possible way to help us improve, and I will put my arms around these guys and say ‘Come on, you can do it’.

“I am going to keep fighting. That’s how I work. At the end of the day all that matters in this job is that you get results.

“Results are hard to come by when you take over a team who have been struggling, and results when you do that in the Premier League are even harder to come by.

“But that’s what I signed up for when I took the job. I knew when I came in this was going to be a big test and it still is, but that’s no problem.”

Having defeated Crystal Palace 5-4 the previous weekend, the Swans were thrashed 5-0 by Tottenham last time and Bradley believes they must approach Saturday's game as if it was a cup final.

“I know when you lose a game by the scoreline that we lost by last weekend, it looks bad for the supporters and for confidence and there’s a lot there to jump on,” Bradley explained.

“But I also know we are not the first team in the history of the Premier League to be beaten by a scoreline that’s got away from them.

“Now we have to turn it around. We have to step on the field to play against a team who are around us in the table and look to win.

"We had a little run of games where we were quite consistent and in a perfect world we would like to continue that. But a loss like Tottenham means we have got to look hard again.

“When you go into a big game like this – in a way a cup final for us – you have got to make sure you have a group of guys who will be ready for that kind of challenge.

“That’s the work that goes on all week – talking to the guys and watching them to see which ones are not fazed by the challenge.”

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