Recruitment specialist Adam Worth has left the Swans. Due to a leak at the club it became news two days before the club wanted to announce it. We had certain information on Sunday but as we do with transfers and other news at times we protected what we knew before yesterdays announcement.

Worth has been the focus of some Swans fans, but his record is more than decent. He quickly proved his ‘worth’ recruiting permanent signings Melker Widell, Ethan Galbraith, Leo Walta (completion this summer) Zeidane Inoussa, Marko Stamenić, Cameron Burgess, Adam Idah and Bobby Wales with a hand in placing Lewis O’Brien last winter at Swansea. He has repaid the club with some players of quality. They will earn the club multi millions in the future.

He has had some poorer moments with Ricardo Santos ( an Alan Sheehan signing) admittedly but his overall presence, irrespective of opinion has changed the shape of the club for the coming years. The loan signings, much of whom were back ups to the permanent team will possibly be a learning curve for him but Malick Yalcouyé from Brighton is a stand out. Kaelan Casey and Ishè Samuels-Smith really didn’t stand a chance as the players ahead of them were first choice no matter what. Gustavo Nunes from Brentford has shown glimpses of his ability but Manuel Benson from Burnley was indeed a low point. Operating within a stringent budget Worth unearthed players to suit a certain style preferred by the club. On that the average success rate for an EFL club based on appearances, goals, and of course a whole plethora of stats is around one in four. It’s hard to gauge after a season how these players will improve and perform in 2026/27 but there are stand outs.

Another player sourced quickly in January was Joel Ward.

Worth and CEO Tom Gorringe were instrumental in bringing in Vitor Matos to the club last November. Matos was spoken to by the Swans before Kim Hellberg (now at Middlesbrough) was interviewed in London last year. The general belief being Matos was a rushed replacement is simply not true.

Now forty one Worth wasn’t sacked by the Swans, in fact much was done to retain him after his decision to leave on Saturday evening. A club source has given us plenty of information on this latest installment at the Swans. There are reasons for the decision, which no doubt will be copied in mainstream press reports when we do reveal it. However, when agreements are made we stick to the. Certain quarters can abuse our position on social media but our track record in solid reporting on Swansea City and Wales I personally think stands up to scrutiny. It’s safe to say there is no other club awaiting his services and no immediate plans to do so. We reported yesterday that a new Director Of Football had been approached, and as is normal the BBC copied the information two hours later as did Wales On Line. The situation with that is the Swans have been actively in search for a new person to come in and fill that role although they have never seen it as an urgent matter.

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