SWANSEA CITY have been warned to avoid becoming a club which constantly changes its manager by Sunderland counterpart David Moyes as the pressure mounts on Bob Bradley.

Bradley has won only one game since taking over in October.

The American went on the defensive this week after accusing critics of taking cheap shots at him over his accent.

There have already been calls for him to go after one win in seven; the only occasion Swansea have won in the Premier League since the opening weekend.

But Moyes, whose squad travelled to South Wales yesterday, believes Bradley deserves to be given more time as Francesco Guidolin’s replacement.

He said: “Swansea have had a really good identity to their club. Good managers. They were in Europe not too long ago. But this is the way the Premier League is, how you recruit, and if you're a club like Swansea you will lose players.

“How you recruit, how you bring them in, the money you spend to keep up with the Joneses', you have to do that.

“But I do think that you don't want to be known for a club who keep changing their managers because I think if you get that reputation, what happens is that managers don't want to go and join you because they realise that if they get rid of the manager now, the next one's coming in saying 'Well if I can't win in the next six games am I the next one to go?'

“I think it's ridiculous and I think the manager has to be given time and support there or before you know it they'll lose a lot of the good things and the strengths that they had.”

Moyes even went one step further by claiming that it should be the Swansea board who are accountable rather than Bradley.

The Sunderland boss said: “It shouldn’t be Bob Bradley who loses his job. It should be the person who appointed Bob Bradley. Bob Bradley was brought into the job and it must be the people who made the decision. That would be the way I look at it.

“I think Bob Bradley would have to be given time. If it was Swansea, Sunderland, for example, or some of the other clubs at this end of the table, then they expect a massive turnaround. If anyone thinks that then they would be completely wrong.”

Moyes was given time at Sunderland after failing to win any of his opening ten matches. Even though the Black Cats are still in the relegation zone, they have given themselves a fighting chance of survival after winning three of their last four games.

He said: “I don't think we'll ever be back to square one because we've given ourselves (a chance), we're clinging on to other teams now. A lot of teams are closer to us, and I felt that going into January we had to be in with a shout.

“For a month or two there we didn't look as if we were in with a shout. We're in with a shout now. We're positive, we feel good. We'll go into the game positive, with a good attitude. I can tell from the players' training, the way they're looking, that we'll have a chance. I really do.”