re: Swansea City 2016/17 Season Long Thread: 15th? Safe All Along

Trying to agree with personal terms with Baston. Clubs have settled on the transfer fee

Bartley has been solid thru preseason and two games. Like you said, he looks comfortable at this level. Grimes was kind of disappointing vs qpr but then again so was the whole team.

Dude was fantastic as a #10 last night. Monk said he was supposed to start at qpr but didn't get cleared in time. Should keep his place for a while.

Guidolin has already come out and said that Ki and Taylor won't be playing tomorrow and that Gylfi will start on the bench to give them all extra rest after their summers. With Gylfi and Ki both out creativity in the midfield is going to be hard to come by. Will be interesting to see how they set up

Really need Baston up top. Last two games have been pretty ugly. We need someone who can finish at the net.

Yeah he's supposed to be healthy after the break. Routledge needs to sit. He's just been a turnover machine. The lack of creativity is apparent. If Jeff, Barrow or Gylfi isn't creating something by themselves then nothing is happening. I like having the wingers being creative but at times we become way too dependent on it and one dimensional. It becomes get it out wide and hope they do something and that's it

Hard to really judge him at this point. He looks like has good feet to link up well with Gylfi or another striker but all we do is swing balls in at his head when he's the only man in the box. Hard to ask him to be productive like that

ya boy just got unbanned so expect more rage novellas after the games

here's a real quick one

First-Llorente is trash, I didn't expect him to score a lot but I thought his hold play would benefit our wingers but no hes all around trash and a poosie. Borja and Mcburnie Sanders need to play( yes I know borja is hurt)

Second- If routledge sees the field as the starter one more time this season I will punch a baby. He is so bad and losses the ball every time. He turned the ball over like an idiot and it lead straight to the vardy goal. Montero is a million times better than routledge

Other than that im really not worried, we looked the better team against Hull but the final ball was lacking and then conceded on a corner( which we have to get better at)

Then against Leicester we couldn't make a pass first half and two mistakes that lead to goals( routledges dumbass and another corner) but after the subs we looked close to getting a point out of it.

After the break and with Montero and Borja starting I think we beat Chelsea.

It's been tough to watch for a while now. The midfield just made no sense. Fer should never be played in a holding mid role as he has no interest in playing defense. Same with Ki. Once we brought on Montero and had some balance in attack so it wasn't all going through Barrow we looked better. Really need Baston to get to full fitness because someone needs to start scoring some goals.

Rumours over here that Giggs has been in talks with the board about coming into the management team.