These are your Swansea City headlines on Friday, December 29
Juventus chief in London for Patino talks
Tuttosport – by way of Sport Witness – report Juventus technical director Cristiano Giuntoli has flown to London to work on a cope with Arsenal for Swansea mortgage man Charlie Patino.
The attacking midfielder has been linked with a transfer to the Serie A giants for a while. The Turin-based facet have tracked Patino for some time and the Italian publication state “now looks as if the suitable time to strike”.
They report that Juve wish to transfer now, with Inter Milan additionally monitoring issues. A payment of €20million is needed by the Gunners, which is seen as a sticking level for the Old Lady, who’re set to supply former Everton striker Moise Kean to sweeten the deal.
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It has been labelled a “sensational alternate” within the Italian press.
Were Swansea to lose Patino in January it will be a blow. The 20-year-old has featured in 18 Championship matches to this point this time period, scoring thrice. He spent final season on mortgage with Blackpool.
Ramsay jumps up odds
Manchester United coach Eric Ramsay has jumped up the record to change into Swansea’s subsequent supervisor.
Alan Sheehan (1/1) and Luke Williams (5/2) stay the frontrunners however Ramsay is now priced at 4/1.
The Welshman, who’s a set-piece specialist up at Old Trafford, was lately a part of Rob Page’s employees with the nationwide workforce. Another identify that has moved up in the previous couple of days is Brian Barry-Murphy, who’s at the moment the pinnacle coach of Manchester City’s under-21s facet after spending two years in command of Rochdale, the place he earned reward for his possession-based model.
Former head coach Michael Duff left Swansea on December 4 after lower than six months in cost. The Swans’ seek for their subsequent supervisor is prone to head into its fourth week.
Sheehan desires a response
Meanwhile, interim boss Sheehan desires to see a response tonight in opposition to Coventry City following Swansea’s 5-0 battering by Southampton on Boxing Day.
Sheehan referred to as the second-half show at St Mary’s unacceptable and needs to ensure it does not occur once more – beginning tonight in opposition to the Sky Blues.
“All we can focus on is making sure we prepare the team as well as we can, that’s what we’ve been trying to do over these last number of games,” stated Sheehan.
“That doesn’t change and that would be the similar for Friday. We have been in the entire video games over this recent run except for one actually disappointing half which we all know was not adequate.
“We need to pick ourselves up and make sure that does not happen again.”
