keith margam
Vital Football Legend
One of Peterborough’s best performers, 27 year old Centre Back Ryan Tafozolli, is drawing interest from many clubs including the Swans. He moved from Mansfield three years ago and his contract expires this month.
Swansea City boss Graham Potter was spotted at Fratton Park on Thursday night watching the League One promotion play off semi final between Portsmouth and Sunderland.
Reports claim Potter was there to scout potential transfer targets, one of which was Sunderland’s versatile defender Tom Flanagan.
They claim that the Swans had interest in Flanagan back in January and Potter was likely at the game to see the defender in action, as well as to assess Portsmouth centre back Matt Clarke.
So Potter was scouting for Brighton whilst still employed by Swansea.
Matt Clarke is having a medical with Brighton after they agreed a £3.5 mill fee with Portsmouth.
I said all along that he was tapped up and poached from us as early as last January.
No rumour this.
So here we are then, Steve Cooper’s first signing, 26 year old left back Jake Bidwell, who joins on a free transfer. He’s signed a 3 year deal after leaving QPR at the end of his contract.
An ex-Everton academy player he also has plenty of Championship experience with QPR and Brentford.
“I’m definitely excited about getting down to work,” said Bidwell, who was also impressed by his conversations with head coach Cooper.
“It was a different situation for me being a free agent. There were a couple of options, but I tried to do as much homework as I could on Swansea and all the feedback I had off various people was positive.”
“It’s a massive club, you look around and everything about the infrastructure is Premier League.”
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Swansea City have completed the signing of Watford centre-back Ben Wilmot on a season-long loan, subject to international clearance.