Swansea City v Reading : Teams for today’s game at 2pm
The swans take on the royals at the Swansea.com stadium this afternoon. Team news is below, the swans may well be favourites but this isn’t a Reading side ready to give up easily. Swansea should be well on guard today. This is the championship.
As predicted Williams makes a return and Obafemi and Whittaker again don’t start.
Swansea City: Ben Hamer; Ryan Bennett, Kyle Naughton, Rhys Williams; Ethan Laird, Korey Smith, Matt Grimes (captain), Ryan Manning; Olivier Ntcham, Jamie Paterson; Joel Piroe.
Substitutes: Steven Benda, Flynn Downes, Brandon Cooper, Liam Cullen, Joel Latibeaudiere, Jake Bidwell, Liam Walsh.
Reading: Luke Southwood, Tom Holmes, Alen Halilovic, Andy Carroll, John Swift, Danny Drinkwater, Andy Yiadom (captain), Tom Dele-Bashiru, Baba Rahman, Scott Dann, Josh Laurent.
Substitutes: Rafael Cabral, Dejan Tetek, Femi Azeez, Mamadi Camara, George Puscas, Tyrell Ashcroft, Kelvin Abrefa.
Tickets still available.
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The fate today’s Swansea footballers would never have to endure Swansea City bring this season to a close on Saturday with a home game against Millwall. However, what about those bygone days when footballers had no choice but to go down the pit after their career ended, or open a toy shop, pub or retrain ? That thought would petrify todays modern footballer.
Brave Swans in memorable game at Carrow Road It was a pulsating game to watch and very much one of my favourite away games of the season. The Swans looked an entirely different side to that we saw at Middlesbrough when it is clear a catalyst for commitment was agreed behind the scenes at Swansea City. To a man every player grafted and
wore the shirt with pride. To see the players really acknowledge the Swans support at Carrow Road this afternoon was emotional.
Swansea reject Cullen contract and trigger one year option Liam Cullen has had his request for a new contract dismissed by Swansea City after discussions broke down last week. The lowest paid ‘senior’ player at the club ( he is twenty five) asked for a better contract increasing his £3,500 a week to around £7,000 a week over three years.
Sam Parker hasn’t turned down a new deal, he is willing to negotiate He was a revelation for the Swans for the few games he played this season, and now it emerges Sam Parker has ‘turned down’ a new Swansea City contract. News is thin on the ground, and some of it just incorrect as he looks to involve his representatives in some further negotiations. Plus his current contract runs for two more years.