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.

Photographs AaB & Imago via Reuters

Bluswan added 10:43 - Jan 29 Matt Grimes has proven to be a fine and loyal servant to the club. So best wishes and good luck to him at Coventry for working with Lampard (great midfielder, briefly once a Swan, but with a lot to prove as a manager) must have also been a ‘pull’ in addition to the obvious financial benefits. Personally, I would hope Franco is given the Captain’s arm band. Abdulai’s hatrick last night again points to extremely poor player and positional/tactical judgment by the verbose and not very committed (even disloyal) Williams and raises severe questions once again about the dire football understanding of the American ownership. This is why we are potentially staring at League 1. Levine and Kaplan may have left (but still it seems potentially screwing the club with their reported post-ownership agreement) and now we have the strangely (as it seems from Swans Independant) autocratic approach taken by Coleman to all facets of the club. Yet Coleman’s behaviour has been contradictory because the most obvious thing to have done when Williams gave his ‘come and get me plea’ to WBA (what a fantasist!) was for Coleman to put him immediate gardening leave and promote from within (say Joe Allen) to bide time until a manager with a proven track record could be brought in - the problem being of course that no manager with pedigree will want to come and work under this consistently failing ownership.

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