Matos Explains Swansea's Summer Transfer Plans

ByGareth Vincent

BBC Sport Wales

Vitor Matos says Swansea City must debar different overhaul of their playing squad erstwhile nan transportation model opens this summer.

Swansea brought successful 12 caller signings successful past year's summertime model while a big of players besides departed.

Eight caller faces arrived successful nan 2024 model and 13 were signed during what turned retired to beryllium a peculiarly underwhelming summertime successful 2023.

While Matos feels location is simply a request to strengthen, Swansea's caput coach believes his squad needs fine-tuning alternatively than awesome activity successful nan upcoming adjacent season.

"It's not astir changing 14 players and getting 14 caller ones - nan guidelines is there, nan foundations are here," Matos said.

"It's rather clear nan request for extent successful nan squad - that's rather clear for everyone and I deliberation that's thing that we request to return attraction of.

"Looking what positions we want to strengthen, which benignant of profiles we want, that's really it will be. It's to effort to amended what we person and I deliberation that's what everyone wants."

The grade of Swansea's summertime transportation activity will dangle successful portion connected really galore departures location are.

Three of their 4 indebtedness players are expected to depart, pinch left-back Ishe Samuels-Smith (Chelsea), Malick Yalcouye (Brighton and Hove Albion) and Gustavo Nunes (Brentford) heading backmost to their genitor clubs, and Matos has indicated that they are improbable to return adjacent season.

Leo Walta's lawsuit is different, pinch nan Finland midfielder owed to complete a imperishable move to Swansea successful nan summertime having joined connected an first indebtedness woody successful nan mid-season window.

There are only 2 elder players, defender Joel Ward and third-choice goalkeeper Paul Farman, whose Swansea deals expire astatine nan extremity of nan season.

Matos says "everything is still connected nan table" regarding nan futures of nan out-of-contract duo.

"We will decorativeness nan play and past speak astir it," he added.

Then of people location are players who are nether statement astatine nan Swansea.com Stadium but could pull bids from rival clubs.

The early of Zan Vipotnik could beryllium a talking constituent passim nan summer, pinch Matos acknowledging that liking successful nan Championship's apical goalscorer is inevitable.

It would beryllium nary daze should nan striker move on, though the caller woody he agreed past period strengthens Swansea's manus erstwhile it comes to immoderate transportation negotiations.

Matos says it would return "proper money" to person Swansea to waste nan Slovenia international. The suggestion, astatine this early shape astatine least, is that a bid successful nan region of £15m could make a woody happen.

Another plus who whitethorn good pull offers is Ethan Galbraith, though Matos remains hopeful he will beryllium astir for a while yet with statement negotiations ongoing.

Josh Tymon is different Swansea subordinate whose shape this play must person attracted admiring glances from elsewhere, while Lawrence Vigouroux has besides impressed connected a accordant basis.

But Matos will person fingers crossed that astir if not each of his cardinal performers are still astir travel August.

With Samuels-Smith going and Kaelan Casey not replaced pursuing his exit successful January, Swansea will beryllium successful request of protect reinforcements this summer.

There could beryllium different vacancy should Ward depart, though nan caller re-emergence of Sam Parker and nan impending return of Filip Lissah aft an fantabulous indebtedness spell successful Scotland will travel into nan equation.

Swansea look good stocked successful cardinal midfield, though a subordinate pinch powerfulness is apt to beryllium connected nan wishlist for Matos.

They already person Marko Stamenic and Jay Fulton, but location is simply a emotion wrong nan nine that much physicality is required to header pinch nan rigours of nan Championship.

With Nunes leaving, astatine slightest 1 wide subordinate will beryllium a target – and it whitethorn beryllium that Swansea look to do further business successful that area fixed nan deficiency of extremity threat coming from their flanks this season.

Up front, meanwhile, Swansea are successful bully style pinch Adam Idah competing pinch Vipotnik and Liam Cullen besides offering an option. All that will change, of course, should Vipotnik beryllium sold.

Matos says wide alterations must beryllium avoided different nan activity done connected nan training crushed and successful nan gathering room since he took complete successful November "was conscionable for nothing".

"The ownership has a really clear imagination of what they want for nan future," he added.

"I bargain into that and they bought into my ideas arsenic well. That was ever nan communal ground, that's why [my] statement is until 2029.

"We had a transportation model pinch much limitations, that was January. Now a small spot different, truthful let's spot really it goes."

Regardless of what business is done, Matos insists he is excited astir nan summertime because of pre-season.

Since taking nan reins, nan Portuguese has continually referred to nan deficiency of training clip disposable fixed nan wave of fixtures successful nan Championship.

This week is an perfect example. Having hosted Southampton past Saturday, Swansea travelled connected Monday to look Queens Park Rangers connected Tuesday earlier returning to Wales successful nan early hours of Wednesday.

After 1 afloat time astatine nan training ground, they were backmost connected nan autobus connected Friday for nan agelong trek eastbound to look Norwich City connected Saturday (15:00 BST).

"I will opportunity it now, nan champion transportation [of nan summer] will beryllium nan pre-season together," Matos said.

"It doesn't mean that you're going to triumph each nan games, but it intends you create basics to beryllium person to occurrence and you create basics that erstwhile there's a small spot of a storm, you ever find a measurement to get out.

"That will beryllium monolithic for us."