Swansea City club captain, Matt Grimes has played his last game for the club and will have a medical at Coventry City’s Sky Blue Lodge training facility at 1pm today. The details of his move will be for an undisclosed fee but it is being suggested Swansea City Chairman, Andrew Coleman has managed to get as close to four million pounds as is possible, with add ons.
The transfer has come as a surprise but as we reported yesterday he had little chance of having an improved contract at the Swans with him already on around twenty thousand pounds a week. It’s a huge saving for Coleman on salary alone, but there is a lot of suspicion around that the funds will end up unused this January window. To some it’s an end of an era, anything said negatively being taken as a personal insult by many. However, Grimes is a commodity and he is thirty in four months so a deal like this just had to go through. Just like Harry Darling who is getting a lot of interest and he in turn is interested in leaving Swansea this month to the right club. That club is currently Sheffield United but more will be in tow, you can guarantee that this week.
Matt Grimes has been reported as delighted with his move, and Dean Austin at the Sky Blues who looks after these recruitment matters will be rubbing his hands this morning. Away from this transfer the Swans are still in talks with AaB in Denmark for much touted midfielder, Viktor Widell (Melker) The fee required is believed to be around €3.5M, and if the Swans are to be talked about seriously it’s players such as this they need to recruit. Also this morning we have news of another player of interest to the Swans. Joel Mvuka has been linked, he is currently at Lorient in Ligue 2 in France. This is a league the Swans have been shopping in before. Joel (22) is described as a ‘quick’ right sided player who has scored three goals in sixteen or so appearances this season. Like Florian Bianchini he does fit the profile that the Swans require. Young with potential from a league which the club have shopped in before, plus his salary demands will be quite low.
On the subject of Joe Low he most certainly is of interest still. There was some talk that he is again leaving Wycombe Wanderers last night. For the moment we can put that one to bed, he has been out for a short while with tonsillitis, came back on Saturday but wasn’t fit last night. That’s the gen at this moment in time.
Finally we have to congratulate Azeem Abdulai on his debut last night for Orient at St James Park, Exeter. He bagged three goals. That’s a great start as Old Father Time starts his judgement on not only him, but those who are in charge of the worst start of the year in living memory for Swansea City.