Swansea City: Lewis O’Brien set for SA1 despite late Derby County interest

Sunday, 2 February 2025, 18:36
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Swansea City are set to complete the loan signing of Nottingham Forest midfielder Lewis O’Brien as the man to fill the hole left by the departure of Matt Grimes at the end of last month.

The Swans appear to have reached an agreement with the high flying Forest to cover a proportion of his reported £40,000 per week wage and will bring him in before the transfer window closes tomorrow and having had to deflect late interest from Forest’s nearest rivals in Derby County.

O’Brien has struggled to have any real impact at Forest having made just eight starts in thirty months at the club and loan spells at DC United, Middlesbrough and Los Angeles have made up most of the last two years of his career but just forty-eight appearances in that time have been secured by the player.

Looking beyond that he was a very influential part of the Huddersfield squad that made the play off final in 2022, ranking highly for his defensive metrics across both duels wo and recoveries – data that will be music to the ears of Andy Coleman and his data analysts.

O’Brien’s loan to LA also included an option to buy but the MLS side decided not to pursue that and whilst Derby have shown recent interest there has also been suggestions that Preston, Blackburn and Luton have all been alerted to the possibility of a loan.

But it seems that despite all that interest the Swans are the ones set to secure a player who Forest still value at £5m despite his lack of football at the City Ground.

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Mel Nurse

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2 X decent signings especially O'Brien who will bring a bit of experience and forward drive from midfield.

I still fear the lack of attacking recruitment if not sourced tomorrow will be a big issue, little creativity will equal few goals....something that has been glaringly missing from day one this season.

We need to see a good 10 and a winger at least with O'Brien and Wright.

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Has made 8 starts in 30 months.
Yeah ok.

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Roger Freestone

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To be fair our biggest problem right now is a side crippled with low confidence.

There is only so many times the manager can publicly throw the side under the bus and label them pathetic before that turns into belief that it is true. We all know the player Ronald was when he first came to us and when you compare that to the player yesterday who had no conviction when played clean through on two separate occasions its night and day.

The side has creative elements, but what it has lacked is a stable base that will actually release the ball at the right time and find the progressive passes so that when we do beat the press that we don't just turn around and go straight back into it.

Players like Cullen, Franco, Bianchini, Ronald and Vipotnik would turn out entirely different performances if we were actually driving forward with intent and a good tempo instead of walking football ad infinitum.

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