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Summer Transfer Window 2017

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BOOM!!! Didn't he follow that up with a second thunderbolt from a free kick too?
 
If that. Can't remember the last one he scored. Might even have been the 2 at West Ham.

We're not great at them.

i cant picture any of our players staying behind after training to practice them like beckham used to. well maybe lukaku but any practice isnt really paying off
 
Swansea City prepared to turn down record bids for Gylfi Sigurdsson, say defiant American owners
After a stunning season in South Wales, the Icelandic international has been the subject of intense interest from Premier League rivals
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Gylfi Sigurdsson has had another superb season for Swansea City
Swansea City are ready to turn down record-breaking bids for Gylfi Sigurdsson – with the club's American owners adamant they're keeping the Liberty's star man.

And even an offer of £40m would not necessarily tempt the board into changing their stance as they look to hold firm in a summer of speculation over the Swans idol.

Sigurdsson, Swansea's player of the season, is known to be wanted by a host of rival clubs with Tottenham and Everton among those keen on landing the No.10 ahead of next season.

It's led to some reports that the Toffees have already agreed a £25m fee for the 27-year-old just days after the end of a Premier League season where he played a vital role in keeping the club in the top-flight.

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Gylfi Sigurdsson celebrates his stunning equaliser against Manchester United(Photo: Huw Evans Picture Agency)
But it's understood that figure comes nowhere near what Swansea consider their prized-asset worth having already rejected enquiries of a similar value over the past 12 months.

And Swansea majority shareholder Steve Kaplan has told WalesOnline that there's no appetite to consider selling having held talks with the player over the weekend.

“We all know how important Gylfi is, just as he knows how much he's valued and loved here,” said Kaplan. “There's been interest in him before – there were some pretty big enquiries about him last summer and in the January window – but we didn't want to sell him then and we don't want to sell him now.

“And neither do we need to sell him. He has three years on his contract and he's part of our plans going forward under Paul Clement.

"Our aims are to make sure that we build on the successful end to the season and that doesn't include selling out best players."

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The Swansea City end of season award ceremony, which took place at the Liberty Stadium. Gylfi Sigurdsson, Away Player of the Year. (Photo: FREELANCE)
Swansea are expecting for more interest in Sigurdsson and are aware that there is a danger of the player potentially having his head turned.

But Sigurdsson has already admitted he is happy at Swansea and is not thought to be ready to kick up a fuss should Swansea turn down offers – especially from anyone outside the current top four.

Kaplan and fellow majority shareholder Jason Levien were both in South Wales over the weekend for the end-of-season win over West Brom, and held talks with manager Clement. It's thought that included reassurances over Sigurdsson's situation.

In light of the reports of an agreed fee with Everton for Sigurdsson, a clubs spokesman said: "There has been no contact between Swansea City and Everton.

"As far as the owners, the chairman and the manager are concerned, they want to keep Swansea City's best players."

Well well well the daily Mirror in reporting complete bullshine shocker
 

Stats post alert.

In football analytics there is a statistic that measures how many assists you would expect to get for the chances you create.

This means if you played that pass to a striker in that position how often would it lead to a goal.

So if you tap a ball to a player on the half way line who dribbles around 5 players and slots it in you only get credited with 0.0000001 of an expected assist as only 1 in a million of those passes results in a goal.

If you put a ball into a player with an open goal 1 yard out and they blaze it over the bar then you get credited with 0.9 of an expected assist as 90% of those passes result in goals.

Now having written all of that I can't actually find the site that has the data on. But trust me Ross was in the top 20 and Sigurdsson didn't make the list.

I want to see this site
 
a lot of owners say the same stuff, if they come out and say "oh ye we'd probably sell him if a decent offer come in like" clubs will just low ball you
 

According to SSN,just now, Siggy has turned down 100k a week offer from Everton....Spurs will have to change their salary structure to come anywhere close to that.
this fella really doesn't want to come does he? chose to stay at Swansea last year when we'd just got Big Ed in. I'd rather we don't take players not keen to come, it just stores up problems for the future.
 

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