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
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