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Carlos Carvalhal admits he has racked up a big internet bill as he tries to find the solution to Swansea City’s relegation woes, but it will be worth every penny if he can pull off another great escape.

The 52-year-old Portuguese has already seen a staggering turnaround in fortunes.

In the 20 Premier League games before his December appointment the Swans had accumulated just 13 points.

Just five games later and they have already added 10 to their tally.

It was enough to briefly haul them out of the bottom three following the midweek win over Arsenal, and they can do so again with a positive result at Leicester today.

Carvalhal has deflected praise for the revival in fortunes on to his players and his staff, rather than extolling his own virtues.

But, as he prepares to try and pick up another valuable result at the King Power Stadium, the former Sheffield Wednesday boss lifted the lid on the level of preparation that has gone into making his first month in charge a success - additional 4G charges and all.

“Me and my staff do a lot of work – you don’t realise how many hours we discuss the opponents,” he said.

“I arrive at 8 o’clock. Sometimes I go home at 6 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 6 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 okay, it has been fixed!”

But Carvalhal - who along with assistants Joao Mario and Bruno Lage has had a book on coaching published - insists he is not a football obsessive, as much as he is a man clearly infatuated with his work.

“I love football and I love my work,” he said.

“What I can tell you is we try to go into the details because when you go into the details you are looking deep into things.

“We try to get down into the little things, you know in your job that when you have to do something and analyse something you have to know the details of your subject and it means you spend many hours on general things and then into the smaller things about the opponent.

“I don’t think it is obsessive though, I have a life. I like to ride bicycles, I like to read books and take in the views over the sea.

“If you ask me if this last month I have had time to do that over the last month, I would say no because I have been working.

“With one game a week I might have more time, but it is always about the details.”

Those details included gathering all club staff together following his arrival and urging them to always be positive in their dealings with the players, to have smiles on faces, believing that every interaction can make a difference on the mindset and mood of the squad.

The players have relished his personal touch, he is not afraid to pull them aside for one-to-ones on aspects of their play but also has a sense of fun.

They have found his analogies every bit as amusing as supporters and the media, but appreciate his intensity and energy when it comes to his tactical instructions and training.

That energy - and the number of clubs he has managed or coached at over a 20-year career - may suggest a restless personality. A perfectionist.

But Carvalhal will not be a man to lose sleep fretting over what lies ahead.

“The night before the game is normally my best night of sleep. The worst night is the one after the games but the best is the day before,” he said.

“It was the same when I was a player, I never had stress or worry the night before a game.

“I was never stressed before competition, I was always stressed post-competition.

“So I sleep bad after games, but it is better before.

“It is because I know I have done all I can because when it comes to 1pm on the day of a game, if the information is not in the players it is too late and if it is then only they can use it on the pitch.

“There is nothing I can say to them then, other then just before the game. Instead I like to have everything ready on a Friday and everyone knows what will happen, how the opponent will act if they are winning or losing.

“After that it is down to the players and I can go to sleep.”

If he can end up putting Swansea’s relegation worries to bed, he’ll never be short of gratitude in SA1.