The Swansea City Courier
Transfer targets11 Aug 2031
Swansea City make their move for Mark O'Mahony
$3.6M on the table at Leicester City. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market11 Aug 2031
Federico Acosta hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Swansea City can pretend not to have heard.
Market11 Aug 2031
Zain Westbrooke has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Swansea City they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad11 Aug 2031
Tempers go at Swansea City
Eli Junior Kroupi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad11 Aug 2031
Swansea City lose Simon Mitchell
28 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad11 Aug 2031
Real improvement from Owen Hayden-Taylor at Swansea City
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Owen Hayden-Taylor is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad11 Aug 2031
Gonçalo Franco falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout11 Aug 2031
Ronald has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Swansea City will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market11 Aug 2031
Lawrence Vigouroux is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Swansea City has been clear about where Lawrence Vigouroux stands, which is more than many ever get.
In brief
- Market The Zeidane Inoussa talk will not go away
- The dugout Gonçalo Franco asks for a word with the manager
- Match Nothing left to play for but pride at Swansea City