Granero to Swans

Swansea line up Esteban Granero transfer as relegated QPR try to ditch high earners
9 Jul 2013 22:30
Spanish midfielder played for Swans boss Laudrup at Getafe PLUS Wilfried Bony expected to sign in next 24 hours




West London to west Wales? QPR's Granero is a £2.5m Swansea target
Paul Gilham
Swansea are trying to tie up a cut-price £2.5million deal for Queens Park Rangers midfielder Esteban Granero.

Former Real Madrid midfielder Granero, who played under Swans boss Michael Laudrup when he was coach at Getafe, joined QPR for £9m last summer, but they are keen to get him off the wage bill following their relegation.

Meanwhile, the Welsh side expect to confirm the signing of Ivory Coast striker Wilfried Bony from Dutch side Vitesse Arnhem within the next 24 hours.

There is yet to be an official announcement from either club about a deal, but a picture of Bony posing with a Swans shirt alongside the Welsh outfit's chairman Huw Jenkins has appeared on Twitter this evening.

And it is understood the transfer - thought to be for about £13m, which would be a club record fee paid by Swansea - is set to be tied up around lunchtime on Wednesday.

Bony, 24, was named Dutch football's player of the year for 2012-13, a campaign in which he netted 31 goals in the Eredivisie for Vitesse to become the division's top-scorer.

He is poised to become the seventh permanent signing Swansea have made this summer as they look to kick on after finishing ninth in the Barclays Premier League last term.

Jonjo Shelvey, a senior England debutant in October, completed his move from Liverpool last Wednesday, which followed the arrival of three Spaniards - fellow midfielders Alejandro Pozuelo and Jose Canas, both at Real Betis last season, and defender Jordi Amat, recruited from Espanyol.

The Swans have also brought in two teenagers in Slovenian goalkeeper Gregor Zabret and Cypriot midfielder Alex Gogic, while Villarreal's Holland midfielder Jonathan de Guzman has returned to the Liberty Stadium on loan again, signing a season-long deal with the Carling Cup winners as he did a year ago.

The Swans' previous record transfer fee paid was £5.55m - to Valencia last season for winger Pablo Hernandez.


He'll probably be brilliant for them but for 2.5 million???? That is just effing insanity......

 

A loss of £6.5m on one player.

Can't say I would be sad to see him go.

The word disappointing springs to mind.

Adios Esteban.

 

They'd be getting a bargain. He would fit in well under Laudrup

 

Yep, I hope there's some serious clauses in the contract to favour us, sell on % etc.

 

too right its a bargain. it could all be cobblers of course but if it isn't, as finglas said, a 6.5 mill loss on a player who's played only 25 odd games is probably something of a record. They've got to get at least 5 for him surely???

 

Goodbye

 

£2.5m? They must be having a laugh. Granted we won't get back what we paid for him but we are not going to take that big of a hit either.

 

Frankly, Granero was a huge, huge disaster of a signing. One classy goal against West Brom aside (and that a mere consolation) he simply failed to cope with life in the PL. He simply lacked the 'nads to control matches, something I think many of us believed that we'd see. To be fair to Hughes, I think he believed he was signing a player with immense talent and something to prove. This guy was Real Madrid for goodness sake!

Note: It is possible to write a similar piece about Park that finishes with "this guy was Manchester United for goodness sake!"

 

We never paid £9m for him, it was a lot lot less, even so £2.5m is about half of what Id be expecting for him.

 

And we paid £9million! £2.5 is too low.

 

We never paid that much, it was about half that.

 

talks a good game but got lost in far too many matches. English league isnt right for him, should go to Italy and study the architecture. Numb nuts

 

Honestly dont know what happened to this guy.

Another who has talent and simply didnt deliver. A far greater let down than any other player we had last season.

Having said that, watch him thrive at Swansea. prob be MOM every bloody week.

Have to ask, is that down to him, our team or our management? Agree he has to shoulder a lot of it but....?

 

Queens, sometimes a player clicks with a club, sometimes they don't. If it ain't going to work in the first couple of months ............... it never will.
As much as I'd like to see him play for us in the championship, if his hearts already left, he may as well, too.

 

Totally agree Aussie, shame though because on those odd times him and Adel clicked together they seemed to play off each other really well.
They looked devastating at times that i just dont understand how the rest of thier seasons were so sh*te...
WBA game springs to mind !

I suppose everyone gets it right once in a while..whats the old saying? "even a broken clock is right twice a day"...?

 

His heart never arrived to Loftus Road. With the performances he gave us last season he could be a joke in the championship. In Swansea Laudrup has already his own spanish colony which he can lead brilliantly. He could be a big hit there with Michu. Let him go but with big sell on clauses.

 

They have just bought four midfielders - Jonjo Shelvey, Alejandro Pozuelo and Jose Canas, and Alex Gogic - and retained Jonathan de Guzman on an other year long loan.

What the hell would he want Granero for as well? Does he collect midfielders like Sparky does?

Life is going to be interesting on the Costa del Swansea.

 

Swansea to me has to be one of the best places on this daft little island: I love the Swans

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