There are some deals that threaten to go right to the wire before getting agreed and it now seems as if Matt Grimes to Fulham is going to be one of those deals this deadline day.

News comes through now that the Swans have turned down the latest offer from West London which was creeping towards the ยฃ3m barrier as they look to secure the best deal possible for their seemingly wantaway captain.

Not an overly cryptic tweet from Stuart James but one that probably suggests that the two clubs are coming closer to agreeing a deal for Grimes who looks seemingly unlikely to be a Swansea player come the closure of the window.

This is now at least the third bid that Fulham have had turned down and it’s relatively clear that they are not ready to give up yet so it gets almost to the stage of seeing who blinks first with Grimes looking set to be potentially the latest to leave the Swans on this deadline day.

An interesting evening ahead.

By Phil Sumbler

Been watching the Swans since the very late 1970s and running the Planet Swans website (in all its current and previous guises since the summer of 2001 As it stood JackArmy.net was right at the forefront of some of the activity against Tony Petty back in 2001, breaking many of the stories of the day as fans stood against the actions where the local media failed. Was involved with the Swans Supporters Trust from 2005, for the large part as Chairman before standing down in the summer of 2020.