Swansea City take on Norwich City at the Swansea.Com stadium this afternoon at 3pm. There is some good news but first we concentrate on Josh Ginnelly.

TEAM NEWS :

⚽️ Swansea City: Lawrence Vigouroux; Josh Key, Ben Cabango, Harry Darling, Kyle Naughton; Matt Grimes (captain), Gonçalo Franco, Ollie Cooper; Jisung Eom, Liam Cullen; Ronald.

Substitutes: Jon McLaughlin, Jay Fulton, Joe Allen, Žan Vipotnik, Josh Tymon, Florian Bianchini, Myles Peart-Harris, Nelson Abbey, Azeem Abdulai.

⚽️ Norwich City: Angus Gunn, Jack Stacey, Shane Duffy, Callum Doyle, Borja Sainz, Josh Sargent, Ben Chrisene, Amankwah Forson, Kenny McLean (captain), Marcelino Nunez, Oscar Schwartau.

Substitutes: George Long, Grant Hanley, Liam Gibbs, Ante Crnac, Kaide Gordon, Onel Hernandez, Jose Cordoba, Kellen Fisher, Gabriel Forsyth.

As we have reported and the club when asked have updated, Josh Ginnelly isn’t having a favourable time recovering from his achilles injury from a year ago. The good news came in April when he was back in mild training mode, taking that long and slow personal journey back to fitness. Unfortunately he didn’t respond to the rehabilitation, and found himself sidelined with associated injuries to the achilles recovery. It has been a hard slog with numerous setbacks that mean it’s unlikely we will see Josh this year. He came with so much promise and endorsed that in early games. We saw why the Swans brought him into the club having scored thirteen times for Hearts the previous season with seven assists over forty one games.

He has played just six times for the Swans scoring two goals in all competitions.

Better news is that Sam Parker has signed a new contract until 2028 and is going to see some game time for the U21 side in the coming weeks. Thereafter the winger, almost fully recovered from a hamstring injury will play and be available for the first team squad. Luke does see him as a utility player out wide, attack midfield and defence. That sounds painful to us. He’s an attacking forward with bags of pace, let’s utilise him where he fits best, we’ve seen enough tampering and meddling over the last three seasons or so. It’s a crucial time for Sam, and now he has been advised well about his Swansea future without outside influence he can concentrate on his football.

Aimar Govea, despite attention from Juventus and their Wales academy in Cardiff is a few more weeks away. He, as Parker will start the long process again of getting into the mind of head coach, Luke Williams for first team selection.

The Juve ‘interest’ report we did on Aimar recently is linked below.

⚽️ —> What is behind the Aimar link

Straight away there’s four players out with Kristian Pedersen looking at a long lay off with a hamstring injury. Liam Cullen has been declared fit this morning after a lengthy fitness test looking at his ankle and how it can stand up to the rigours of a Championship game.

Norwich City have their fair share of injuries. Below their head coach, Johannes Thorup reviews those.

Full match report later.

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