The Swans and Celtic have been instilled as the favourites to clinch the signature of Blackburn and Republic of Ireland defender Shane Duffy who featured for his country in France this summer.

The Swans were on the look out for a central defender and that search seemed to have ended with the capture this week of Ajax defender Mike Van Der Hoorn but the Sun is reporting today that Federico Fernandez is once again a target for Valencia who were linked with him last summer.

Bet Victor slashed the odds on the Swans signing Duffy to 1/2 this morning with Celtic second favourites at 5/2 after some speculation that the player was to move to the Premier League.

You can pretty much know that with all transfer odds it takes very little movement to actually influence the odds greatly but someone somewhere will have put money on this to make the Swans such odds on favourites.

Personally I am not sure that there will be any mileage in the Fernandez to Valencia rumour which means that I cannot see us being in the hunt for one more central defender so going to file this for now under the 'not happening' camp although never say never

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