Blackburn Rovers in for Swansea striker? Could it mean a Langstaff move?

Reports this morning have suggested that Jerry Yates could be the subject of interest from Blackburn this week with our Championship rivals allegedly keen on a loan move for the striker we signed from Blackpool in the summer.

Yates return of six goals in the league this season is not what the Swans would have hoped for when they paid £2.5m for his services back in the summer.   Having scored 14 in the league for the relegated Seasiders last season it would have been hoped that he would have generated a bigger return considering the outlay.

Yates cause may not have been helped by the change of management seen around the turn of the year but any departure this week surely needs the Swans to move into the market to get a replacement especially given the fact that Jama Lowe is out for a period of time.

The natural link will be between the Swans and Macaulay Langstaff who has twenty goals to his name this season and, of course, is well known to Williams having played under him at Notts County – this season’s tally following forty-two in the National League last season as Williams led the Magpies into the Football League.

The report on Yates – from Alan Nixon – suggests that while Rovers want Jerry on a loan deal the Swans could be open to a permanent deal which presumably would mean that the funds would be used to find an adequate replacement.

Should the Swans choose to let Yates go then it is another blow to the transfer activity of last summer and highlights another thing that was wrong with the recruitment despite anybody at the club being prepared to laud the arrival of thirteen new players to the club.

We wait and watch what happens with this particular deal but it is certainly something that we can see happening in the course of the next few days but, at the same time, the Swans will absolutely need to move into the market to secure a replacement.  Something we can only assume has already been given some thought.