According to footybunker.com, the Swans are nearing the completion of signing Polish goalkeeper Grzegorz Sandomierski. It goes on to say that Swansea City manager Brendan Rogers has close ties to the Chelsea team and there has been an interesting arrangement made whereby the West London club will have first refusal should Swansea choose to sell and the Chelsea management feel that Sandomierski can make the grade at Premiership level. Also mentions that he could cost £3-5m, depending on add-ons. Full story at http://footybunker.com/swansea-city-closing-in-on-chelsea-fc-target/4737.
Interesting story... although I don't see why Chelsea would benefit from our buying a player unless they were part funding it, which I assume to be illegal in this country! If the total transfer could rise to 5 million, I doubt Huw would pay 3mil up front as part of that...
Think you are reading it wrong, Chelsea would buy the player themselves now, but they would prefer the swans to take the risk than them, should the swans come to sell chelsea has 1st refusal, nothing wrong there I think.
Why would we give them first refusal on our own deal though? It makes no sense! The only way I could see this being the case is if Chelsea said "look, we were going to bid for him but we'll let you have him IF..." which I doubt to be the case.
I don't think anything is wrong here. Chelsea were going to bid on the kid and they could easily out-muscle us in the transfer market. So Brendan goes to them and says "Look, we haven't even got a keeper, let us have this one for a change" - and Chelsea say that they'll only pull out of the market for Sandomierski if they get first refusal if we ever decide to sell the keeper. If we establish ourselves, then we probably won't ever sell him. But if he has a great season but we still go down and then decide to sell him on, Chelsea get first dibs. Obviously nothing will be in writing, so we could still screw Chelsea over and not keep our word. But in reality, you don't want to hack off one of the superpowers of world football.
And if the above is in fact true , we have had a couple of favours from them like Sinclair and Borini , so returning the favour is good for a relationship with them, we will never compete with them so it's good that a team likethem could be the source of players in the future, like liverpool were years ago .
I've done a bit of reading up on him and he sounds really good...... also seeing as he's 21 he has mega potential opportunities and making the International team already has got to a bonus...... i think we could say he has proven ability!
