Swans close in on Michael Laudrup

Chairman Huw Jenkins has been conducting negotiations this week in a bid to find the right man to replace Rodgers, who joined Liverpool earlier this month. Swansea hope to make an appointment in the next 24 hours.

If it is Laudrup, compatriot and former Swansea manager Jan Molby says the 47-year-old ex-Brondby, Getafe, Spartak Moscow and Real Mallorca boss will maintain the style of football developed by Roberto Martinez and continued by Rodgers. “I think he’ll do well. I know Michael was very impressed with the way things are done [in the Premier League], the way in which he is in control of footballing matters, selling players, buying players,” Molby said. “He was strongly influenced by Johan Cruyff when he was at Barcelona in the late 1980s, early 90s. That’s how he wants to play, that’s how Swansea played last year under Brendan Rodgers, so if it happens I think it’s a marriage made in heaven.

“They’ve proved they can do it in the Premier League. That’s very important for Michael, he won’t have to start from scratch with a group of players that maybe aren’t comfortable having the ball, being in possession. Michael is a bit like Brendan Rodgers, likes a settled squad, likes to work with the players, feel that he can improve the players.”