Ben Phillips

Central Defender - Swansea City U20
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Marked for Ben Phillips

34 Edition

The Swansea City Courier

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad22 Mar 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ben Phillips

15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Swansea City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad22 Mar 2027

Ramon Rees-Siso breaks a bone — 17 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings22 Mar 2027

Gustavo Nunes, 21, steals the show — 7.70

Marked 7.70 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Player ratings22 Mar 2027

A defender's goal wins it for Swansea City — 7.98

1 for Stephen Eustáquio, marked 7.98, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad22 Mar 2027

The step up is real for Moussa Yeo

At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Market22 Mar 2027

Only the photograph left for Joel Cotterill

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Joel Cotterill will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Swansea City the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad22 Mar 2027

Words at Swansea City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Harry Maguire is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match20 Mar 2027

Stephen Eustáquio sends Swansea City past Sheffield Wednesday

It finished 1‑0, and it was Stephen Eustáquio’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Swansea City.

The dugout22 Mar 2027

A promise honoured for Harry Maguire

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Swansea City told Harry Maguire something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief

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33 Edition

The Swansea City Courier

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad15 Mar 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ben Phillips

22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Swansea City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match9 Mar 2027

Swansea City out of the cup

West Ham United ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad15 Mar 2027

A fracture rules Ramon Rees-Siso out for 26 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Swansea City will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad15 Mar 2027

A falling-out at Swansea City

Harry Maguire and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market15 Mar 2027

Tom Iorpenda is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Swansea City is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

The dugout15 Mar 2027

Adam Idah gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad15 Mar 2027

A row about effort at Swansea City

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Malick Yalcouyé was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Loan watch15 Mar 2027

Filip Lissah wants to come home

“I did not go to Oxford United to sit and watch. I want to come back to Swansea City and fight for my place.” 10 appearances in 30 matches say the rest.

Player ratings15 Mar 2027

Josh Tymon takes the honours

Marked 7.27 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Swansea City had the best player on the pitch.

In brief

32 Edition

The Swansea City Courier

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad8 Mar 2027

The knee: Ben Phillips out for 30 days

30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Swansea City lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad8 Mar 2027

35 days out for Ramon Rees-Siso after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Swansea City will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings8 Mar 2027

No sign of nerves from Gustavo Nunes at 21 — 8.01

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Gustavo Nunes did not need any: 8.01, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Harry Maguire in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Swansea City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Žan Vipotnik signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Žan Vipotnik commits to Swansea City for another 5 years.

The terraces8 Mar 2027

The crowd has taken to Gustavo Nunes

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match6 Mar 2027

Watford take the points off Swansea City

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Match2 Mar 2027

Žan Vipotnik sends Swansea City past Wrexham

It finished 1‑0, and it was Žan Vipotnik’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Swansea City.

The dugout8 Mar 2027

Matthew Hughes answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief

  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Adam Idah
  • The dugout Gonçalo Franco gets it from the manager
  • The dugout Adam Idah knocks on the manager’s door