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

It's going to be a long season. That game was tough to watch yesterday. No possession, lost basically every 50/50 ball, midfield was just abused all day. Unless Borja is the answer it's just going to be really tough to build up enough consistent attack for Swansea to score goals.

Much better this past week. Team looked a lot better on Saturday even though the result wasn't there.

Leon has to absolutely be the first name on the sheet each game. It is night and day when he plays.

Whoever the next coach is should be given full control over transfers. It's pretty obvious that FG is a yes man and was brought in to be such. A manager needs to be able to pick his players.