The Swans are still slightly smarting from a twenty four hour spell of indecision regarding Ricardo Santos and Jesurun Rak-Sakyi. And a few things need pointing out regards this medical Santos ‘failed’

Our information is that Santos completed a medical, and unless it’s glaringly obvious players do not fail medicals. We have been told that a medical exposes certain matters and then it is up to the buying club to decide on those facts reported. People with grey hair or none at all will remember Asa Hartford who had a very successful football career. Way back in 1971 a medical when he was on the brink of signing for Leeds revealed a congenital heart defect. Leeds pulled out but Asa had a superb career with Man City and eleven years later played for Scotland in the 1982 World Cup.

The context of a medical is as follows : Medicals reveal potential problems (e.g. heart, knee, back issues, diabetes, vision), and the club weighs these risks against the player's value, the clubs needs, and the cost. One club's "fail" can be another's "pass," as seen when Loïc Rémy ‘failed’ a medical at Liverpool but signed for Chelsea shortly after plus Ivan Toney (2017): Wolves rejected him due to scoliosis, but he later succeeded at other clubs. So, really it’s not a pass or fail it’s a club decision after the facts are reported.

Our view which will never be proven either way is the huge negative reaction to Santos signing by Reading fans for around £300,000 (Exc news on here again uncredited) was an influence plus the fee was either discussed and the Swans wouldn’t decrease the agreed offer or Reading outright stated ‘No’ Discussing this yesterday we were told every medical reveals issues or potential issues, it is very rare they don’t.

That means Ricardo is still in the market for a new club as far as we are concerned.

Moving on to Crystal Palace player, Jesurun Rak-Sakyi, it needs to be said that he didn’t turn down any offer that he had as of yesterday morning, and that includes Swansea City. Despite a certain outlet repeating an uncredited story by Football Insider and not stating where the ‘deal agreed’ exclusive came from (you read it here a whole eight days ago) And even with the headline pointing the finger at our work being uncredited time and time again the ignorance of this Welsh publication continues. We have again complained. Yes, it’s boring so you can imagine how frustrated we are at a publication refusing to credit this website when if they did so the brain tumour charity would benefit.

⚽️ See here for full info
Deal agreed

⚽️ We revealed the huge interest in the player on Thursday.
Sakyi gets harder to complete

We expect that Manuel Benson and his position at Swansea will be resolved by early next week. There have been talks between Swansea and Burnley yesterday.

It’s been up and down so far for the Swans recruitment this January window, with profit and sustainability sitting on the shoulder of every player decision, the Santos deal was a big hit on plans. It may not sound a lot of money but it was, we assure you. We should have some positive news tomorrow but for now we concentrate on the LIVE game on SKY this evening, Swansea City v Birmingham City (5:30pm)

Photographs : Already registered Reuters & Swansea Independent