Finley Burns facing big Nottingham Forest audition as future at both Man City and Swansea City in limbo

When it was announced that a Manchester City youth player was to join Swansea City in January, feelings of optimism and excitement were rife among fans.

Defender Finley Burns joined, signing a six-month loan deal from the reigning Premier League champions. Burns had made one senior appearance for Manchester City prior to moving to south Wales, which came in an emphatic 6-1 home drubbing of Wycombe Wanderers in the Carabao Cup last September.

Arriving at the club in late January, Burns had to wait until Bristol City visited the Swansea.com Stadium on February 13 to make his debut. The young centre-back played 75 minutes and made a solid start for his new team.

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This was shown in Burns attaining the highest passing accuracy percentage in the match with a 95.4% rating for the young English defender. This is not entirely shocking given the high importance placed on passing style of play by his parent club, but to employ it playing in the Championship age, was a whole new feat.

Swans fans were impressed but sadly for them and Burns, the initial glowing debut was not to be a sign of things to come for the London-born player.

Burns started the following game for Swansea but succumbed to a crushing 4-0 defeat to Sheffield United. Burns managed to make three interceptions and two clearances in the match but did not feature again until the goalless draw vs Birmingham City in March, missing a run of five games after what was a dismal away day for the Jack Army.

Things got even worse as the young player was hooked at half-time against the Blues and has been left out of Swansea’s matchday squads ever since. Burns once again proved