Your Swansea City headlines on the morning of January 1, 2024.
Swans ‘pushing’ for ex-Spurs starlet
Transfer specialist Fabrizio Romano experiences Swansea are “pushing” to signal former Tottenham starlet Romaine Mundle. The 20-year-old left north London final summer season to affix Belgian membership Standard Liege.
But Romano states a number of Championship golf equipment are eager on bringing the young attacker again to British soccer on mortgage. Swansea are the group name-checked within the social media put up, with Standard “assessing (the) present scenario”.
The teenager had starred for Spurs in Premier League 2 within the 2022/23 season and was rewarded by former boss Antonio Conte who named him on the first-team bench 5 occasions within the Premier League final time period.
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He rejected a four-year deal on the desk from the membership and as a substitute signed four-year contract with Standard. Speaking to the media in August, Mundle outlined that Liege’s supporters had a task in his last selection. “The supporters are unimaginable,” he stated. “When you may have the selection between a number of golf equipment, simply the ambiance on the stadium pushes you to make the choice to affix Standard.”
He added: “I want somewhat time to adapt to the depth of the Belgian championship, however I work on it daily and as quickly because the coach calls on me, I’ll be able to take the chance.”
Mundle has had a irritating time within the Jupiler Pro League up to now, that includes in simply 5 video games up to now.
Cullen: Current position not adequate
Swansea striker Liam Cullen says the membership’s present position is not adequate.
Cullen bagged a late free-kick at Coventry City final week to assist his facet declare a draw in opposition to the Sky Blues in what has been a tumultuous interval for the membership.
They stay with out a supervisor 4 weeks after Michael Duff’s departure and discover themselves seventeenth within the Championship. They face West Brom in SA1 this afternoon, with Cullen saying it will be simple to make use of the present scenario as an excuse.
“Obviously the scenario on the membership is what it’s,” Cullen stated. “I feel it will be simple for us to make use of it as an excuse. We do not, as a result of we all know the standard we’ve got within the dressing room and performances have proven that, whether or not it was this season or final.
“The group is basically the identical regardless of the very fact we’ve got made a couple of signings, so we all know we’ve got that high quality and we all know the position we’re in isn’t adequate, we discuss it daily.
“We have to get again to what we’re greatest at and that’s dominating the ball, dominating video games and beating groups on this league. We know we will do it, we’ve got proved we will do it and hopefully (Coventry draw) is a step in the appropriate route. We will look to build some momentum into 2024.”
Sheehan points problem
Caretaker boss Alan Sheehan desires to finish the festive season on a excessive when the Baggies arrive in SA1 this afternoon (3pm).
The Northern Irishman has overseen six video games as far as the search continues for a everlasting man on the helm. Swansea have taken eight factors from that six-match run and Sheehan desires to increase that tally at present, albeit in opposition to an in-form outfit.
“They are a good team with a lot of Premier League and international experience, so we have to recover and make sure we give the lads the best possible chance of putting on a performance and getting a result,” he stated. “We had outcome on home turf final outing, we should see how a few of the lads are feeling with a few of the illness we’ve got had within the camp.
“We will see the place we’re at, however the gamers have given us a lot lately and I feel there’s a lot to take from that. People wish to write you off on this recreation on a regular basis, and this can be a difficult time of yr with the fast turnaround between so many video games, however the gamers have responded.
“But the challenge is to dust ourselves down, see where we are at and get ourselves ready to go.”
