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This new investment
at 12:52 7 Jan 2025

Swansea are looking exactly for the players like Darling and will pay reduced fees on the basis of 6 months left. This is what the recruitment has been doing.

These players sign. Some do not like Ogbene.

If clubs can sell reduced fees and buy reduced fees it is cash neutral. If Darling wages are as high as suggested more reasons to move on.

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There is no economic logic in keeping Darling.
at 23:16 6 Jan 2025

I continue to be surprised how wimpy posters are on here. It's those terrible US owners who should have sold him 2 years ago.

Dealing is playing very well now and clubs desperately want him. They can have him now because if Coleman has any thing about him he will sign Low and tell Darling his days at Swansea are over. He is on good form and will not play another game until next August.

It is like a voluntary ACL

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January Transfer Thread
at 23:08 6 Jan 2025

People say Darling should have been sold two years ago. Just like that. Two years ago he was not playing that well. So how would they have forced him out.?

By signing an alternative and dropping him to the bench for a few months before the window and telling him he was not in the managers plans. He would sit out a few mob nth and find a new club.

So what has changed. He is playing much better and at least three teams are interested. The same principle apply. Swansea sign Low and a loan player and drop Darling.

The club will tell him he is unwanted and bad for team spirit. He is a footballer and wants to play not be a sulking contract rebel. In my opinion he will accept one of the 2-3 offers that come in offering him a pay rise.

QPR did this with contract rebel Me Manning and Swansea coughed up £250k. Swansea recruitment look for these out of contract player to sign for a discount specifically. Manning was always running down his deal and there was no bidding war. There is a bidding war. Clubs can buy a £5m+ player for £1m. They would be mad not to let this chance get away. Market forces. Wycombe are doing the same with Low.

Coleman needs to show some mettle.

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January Transfer Thread
at 22:53 6 Jan 2025

I have been laughing at your meltdown recently. You simply do not understand the principles of journalism or the character of agents and managers.

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U21s v Colchester
at 22:44 6 Jan 2025

Wilson is ready in my opinion for a first team start. He was flying last season with Fletcher but had injury set backs from which he has now recovered and slowly getting back to form. He is very fast and reacts quickly.

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U21s v Colchester
at 17:44 6 Jan 2025

Morgan or Mitchell? Michel has gone to Truro on loan so it must m be Morgan. No strikers for years and now they are queing up Wilson, Woodward and Bates Jr.

Reuben Davies was highly rated but dodged by injuries and has joined a Welsh league team.

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Lopetegui gone at West Ham. Potter being lined up
at 15:53 6 Jan 2025

I believe if t you give Potter 2 seasons he will do great thinks. He has to be kept away from recruitment though. I still cannot understand what his recruitment ever saw in Barrie McKay. Not one fan rated him.

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Swansea City v West Bromwich Albion : Match day thread
at 15:49 6 Jan 2025

There have been numerous juicy aerial crosses out in by Ronald and Tymon in particular that Cullen and Bianchini have messed up. Cullen mistimed another on Saturday a bit far out. Big Myk might have buried a couple of those plus been a benefit in defence.

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January Transfer Thread
at 15:41 6 Jan 2025

It is my opinion that if Darling his told he has played his last game for Swansea he will not hang around. It is a short career he can ot east half a season with offers on the table including Swansea s .

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The Harry darling rumours begin 😡
at 15:37 6 Jan 2025

Blame is not an appropriate word. The club felt that if they offered him great money he would sign. The could no more able to force him out q18 month a ago as they can now. Little has changed. Swansea will get less but on the other hand he has kept SCFC out of relegation trouble.

Bite the bullet and get what they can for him now. He can sit tight but that was always the case.

Swansea may prefer to let him run down his deal. It with cost them £65k a week. He will be gone.

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There is no economic logic in keeping Darling.
at 15:16 6 Jan 2025

They failed I as I said. What I do not accept is that they did not care. The fans cannot complain . THEIR OWN GROUP was worth £22m in 2015-2016. They are the ones who did not give a fig. The member are to blame and not one accepts any blame for being asleep. That is why they cannot deliver and never will.

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There is no economic logic in keeping Darling.
at 12:52 6 Jan 2025

"One set of American owners for another one". In general American owners will not bankrupt the club or put it into serious financial stress as seen with far east owners at Wi gf and and Birmingham.

Levien and co got relegated because of bad Welsh work in the transfer market and some bad luck with injured.

They tried another way with Martin s philosophy. They finished about 10th and pumped in over £20m. It is lazy to say they did not care.
They put their money down and failed and sold up cheaply to give someone else a chance . I know the new owners did not pay full market value. No where near.

The new people have offered Darling a good deal by the looks of it. WR says he is already on £15k a week.

Swansea have not been proactive in this situation and accepted Darlings words in good faith that he might sign a new deal. I believe he was never going to sign. Cut the talking and move him on after getting a replacement . That should have been the player brought in instead I if Abbey who was useless to Williams. Lissah has disappeared..

K&L got to two playoff s losing to a strong Brentford team. Cooper has some sensational talent to work with.

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🔴 Swansea Independent POSTER OF THE YUR !
at 00:37 6 Jan 2025

I won fair and square. You are just a bad loser. I would have won this year as well but to was not included in the democratic process in an anonymous vote.

This year the poll is more restricted and nominations were required and there is no anonymity. Very much " after the Lord Mayors show".

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There is no economic logic in keeping Darling.
at 00:30 6 Jan 2025

Why would Swansea not sign a replacement? Your scenario is worst case assuming that no one at Fairwood is working. Are they all playing golf in galoshes?

Of course they will sign someone WR reckons Darling us on £15k+ in a week or so. No one outside the championship is on that and probably few in Europe outside the super clubs.

If the recruitment is any good for that money they would find a top player.

Lissah is also highly rated but our of the picture atm and untested.

Then there are ths loan options like Nat Phillips or equivalent. He has been jobbing around the championship for a while Liverpool unwilling to release him for a sensible fee presumably.

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The Harry darling rumours begin 😡
at 00:11 6 Jan 2025

He will cost £65,000 a week in wages and devaluation any if he stays. He is not Vidic and Swansea cannot afford to lose that money. If he wanted to stay he would have signed like Cabango.

He can and will be replaced

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There is no economic logic in keeping Darling.
at 22:47 5 Jan 2025

It is not a mystery. He wants to leave Swansea that is why he will not sign a new deal. I suspect he never had any intention of signing.

Swansea need to encourage him to leave. They should have signed credible centre- backs before.

It costs Swansea £65,000* a week to keep him in until July in wages and devaluation. Sign Low and tell him to find a new club

* WR figures

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There is no economic logic in keeping Darling.
at 19:20 5 Jan 2025

More the reason to get rid. If running down a deal do not expect a gold watch .

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There is no economic logic in keeping Darling.
at 16:51 5 Jan 2025

Why waste time and just tell me. As potential poster of the year you should give value to the forum and not fiddle about.

He can earn more elsewhere which is why he has not re signed. He can have his new monthly salary next month if he wants. If he is as very low wages relatively then he has an incentive to move this January.

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Fulham v Ipswich
at 16:28 5 Jan 2025

Wes Burns and Nathan Broadhead not good enough for Wales might be good enough for Ipswich to stay up.

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There is no economic logic in keeping Darling.
at 16:27 5 Jan 2025

The club have a beefed up recruitment team not sitting on their hands. They do now.. yours is a particularly passive position.

In my opinion Darling has been kidding the club that re-signing was a possibility. I suspect it never was.

I have given you the economic basics for a minimal £1m fee. That is £56,000 a week write down. Selling him puts the club back in control of their finances.

It is my bet if Low is signed and he is told he has played his last game for Swansea he will go. Players have 24 half seasons in the game . He cannot afford to waste a half season doing nothing on low wages while turning down good money.

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