Swansea City’s young squad gearing up to get competitive with Alan Sheehan

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Swansea City’s youthful cohort, exemplified by 17‑year‑old Sam Parker, are thriving under Alan Sheehan’s guidance. Sheehan, impressed by Parker’s debut, emphasised that “if you’re good enough, you’re old enough”.  Inspired by strong form and a permanent head coach appointment, the emerging Swans are gearing up to compete fiercely, buoyed by confidence, momentum, and a culture built on energy and resilience.

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00:00let's take a look now at swansea city and looking at their upcoming championship season now last

00:10season for swansea was let's be honest quite mediocre in terms of what they can achieve and

00:16what they're capable of as a club of course swansea a club who in the last you know 10 10 or so years

00:23were an established premier league club and yet since then since they've gone down to the

00:29championship again they've never really challenged enough to get themselves back into england's top

00:35flight now as i mentioned last season was mediocre and sort of a testament as to where they are at as

00:41a club at the moment but what can they achieve for the upcoming season certainly in the transfer

00:46market they've they've tried to sort themselves out and add depth and quality to their squad but

00:53is it or will it be enough to at least challenge the top half of the championship and be anywhere

00:58near the playoffs i don't think that they'll be capable of going on an automatic promotion push

01:03given the fact that some of the clubs who will probably be in that race will have just come

01:08down from the premier league and will have those parachute payments and already quality squads

01:12themselves but will they be able to at least get themselves into the top half and have

01:16a bit more of a memorable season that remains to be seen but to find out more let's go to our

01:22wales sports correspondent charles higg jones charles what can you tell us about swansea city

01:27and what we can expect from the swans going into the championship season have they done enough

01:32during this transfer window so far to at least be a bit more competitive than they were last season

01:37of course no card of city in the championship this season but wrexham are in the championship so

01:43will that perhaps play into what they try to do or should swansea just concentrate on themselves

01:49and ultimately be the best of the welsh teams once again in english football so what can we expect

01:55from wales in the upcoming season yeah obviously um it's been quite a loud um summer for swansea

02:03city off the pitch with their their ownership situation um a lot of stuff going on obviously

02:09the managerial change making alan sheehan the permanent boss um you know one thing you have to say

02:15about sheehan he's got such a proactive approach um you know mid-table sort of disappointment last

02:22season he emphasized strengthening the squalling increasing that sort of depth ahead of this

02:26campaign as well and and how you know important that actually is so um you know they've focused

02:32their window on attacking reinforcements have spent one and a half million pounds on you know

02:38officially recorded you know plus undisclosed fees as well um they've had a few players come in i mean

02:44it's not really a transfer window that's going to blow your breath away like the likes of of wrexham

02:50have had with their sort of interests of different players as well also in the championship next season

02:54it's going to be uh interesting to see when when these guys meet um but for swansea city i mean

02:59you know they go away to to middlesbrough uh in that first game another team that have sort of

03:06disappointed a little bit and have high expectations and haven't really met them over the last couple of

03:11seasons swansea are in that boat swansea are in a boat with a number of teams you know the likes of

03:16of watford bristol city whole city um middlesbrough themselves as well where you know you have clubs

03:22coming up from league one the likes of wrexham and birmingham city they have massive investment

03:26then you have the guys dropping down from from the premier league as well who couldn't sustain that

03:31and become another group of premier league um promotion teams to come straight back down so you've got

03:38those to compete with as well and then you have this group of of teams now group of clubs at the

03:43moment who just don't know where they lie they're in that bit of pool of uncertainty uh swansea is

03:49certainly in there and i mean i can see them going really well at times i can also see uh consistency

03:54maybe costing them but what they do have is alan sheehan he is the the prize asset for me in terms of

04:01of the player um sorry in terms of the managers to sort of get them forward get them that that proactive

04:08as i say really positive guy a lot in that first game of way at millsburg to hold their own there

04:13would be uh fantastic for sheehan's side but um as a whole i do think right now they maybe lack a bit

04:21of goal threat they lack a bit of um cohesion across the entire side they haven't added as much depth

04:27that they maybe would have liked and invested as much as other clubs so i think it will be a bit

04:32of a struggle at times this season but um you know i'm confident that sheehan can deliver again

04:38and get some really nice runs going on again so um that could be good for the swans fans

04:43and get some really nice questions

04:47to see you next week

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