Swansea City chief reveals 'critical' transfer policy shift and the 'next batch of players' they are looking at

Swansea City sporting director Mark Allen says it's "critical" that the club move away from loan signings and focus more on permanent deals in the absence of parachute payments.

In recent years Swansea have enjoyed a number of loan signing successes, especially under former boss Steve Cooper's watch. The likes of Conor Gallagher, Rhian Brewster, Marc Guehi and Freddie Woodman were all brought to SA1 and played key parts in play-off challenges.

With the changing of the guard in the Swansea dugout and the fact that Premier payments have now stopped, Allen feels it is crucial that clubs look to sign young players on long-term deals instead. The likes of Joel Piroe and Flynn Downes are perfect examples of that mantra. Martin and his staff were out on scouting missions this weekend - you can read more about that here.

Allen also revealed that summer recruitment plans are already well under way. “I think it is critical to a club,” said Allen, who has also worked at Manchester City and Rangers. “Championship football is very different to Premier League football, and there will always be an element of having to trade players.

“We have made no secret of that in the past, and we will make no secret of it moving forward. It is about realising the players who can help us get up the league, but also developing assets who could help the club economically. We are always mindful of those things, but the strategy is to identify young up and coming players and to purchase them where possible.

“We have had some successes with that this season and long may it continue, we are already out there looking at the next batch, if you like. It’s there for all to see that revenues in the Championship are a lot lower than the Premier League, and