Swansea City: ‘Brexit the problem’ as Vitor Matos waits on backroom staff

“We did everything they (the relevant authorities) asked us for and that’s how it is,” Matos added.

“Now it needs to be the panel to make a decision and we wait for that.”

Matos has so far been working alongside long-serving coach Kristian O’Leary and head of goalkeeping Martyn Margetson at Swansea, with club legends Leon Britton and Joe Allen also joining his staff on a short-term basis.

When asked whether working without his familiar backroom team was making his job harder, Matos said: “I would not say harder, but different. I think different is a right word because my coaching staff knows the way I want to play, knows the way I build that way of playing, and that’s different if they are not here.

“Joey and Leon have been absolutely brilliant trying to understand what I want and at the same time giving me the background of the team, of the club and of the players.

“I’m really happy to have them with me, they are legends of the club and I respect that a lot. So the right answer is different of course.”

Swansea have lost their two games under Matos, at home to Derby County and at West Bromwich Albion last weekend.

They are only outside the Championship relegation zone on goal difference having suffered five straight league defeats in all, with the pressure on to halt the slide when they host 20th-placed Oxford United on Saturday.