Undermining Swansea City
For a team that is currently sitting 9th in the Premier League, playing football that is winning the plaudits and a manager cooler than ice, you’d understand why Swansea City are quickly becoming the second team of every football fan.
Fresh off the back of their Capital One Cup victory and guaranteed a place in the Europa League next season, the story of the Swans rise through the lower leagues of the game to the position they’re in now is astounding, to say the least.
Furthermore, operating on a £15m profit from last year, a club performing debt free is even more impressive. Which is why, reportedly, the club offering an 11 month unpaid internship beginning in the summer saw football supporters scratching their head why a Premier League football team would act in the manner they are.
A club supposed to be the good guys of football, expecting not one but two people to move to Swansea for almost a year to go about their job unpaid while a number of their players are earning around £20,000-a-week, not to mention the aforementioned operating profit, could they surely not afford an extra £40,000-per-annum to pay two people to do a job to improve the club as a whole?
On top of that, by only offering the internship for 11 months, it effectively denies the employees employer rights, meaning they can, legally, get away with not having to pay the two who apply for the role. Either way, for a team that have been winning the plaudits over recent months, this is a huge blow to the club, PR-wise anyway.
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