Swansea City headlines as Man Utd's Laird enduring 'tough' time, Sheffield Utd boss twists the knife and former Swan dies aged 50

These are your Swansea City headlines on Sunday, February 20

Former Swansea loanee Ethan Laird could be in line to make his bow for new team Bournemouth against his former employers on Tuesday night.

The Manchester United defender has yet to play for the Cherries, despite joining them nearly six weeks ago.

His loan stint with Swansea was brought to an abrupt end at the turn of the year, with United's decision to cancel his stay in Landore an unexpected and unwanted one.

Laird had arguably been Swansea's most consistent performer over the course of the first half of the season, and his absence has been keenly felt, despite the positive displays of replacement Cyrus Christie.

Now on the south coast rather than south Wales, it hasn't gone to plan with Scott Parker's men so far.

He has been suffering due to a setback to his recovery from a hamstring injury but he returned to training in recent days and Parker hinted he could be ready to travel to Swansea in midweek.

"It's tough. It has been tough for him," said Parker earlier this week. "I think for him and Kieffer (Moore) really. Ethan's come in and obviously not played a minute. So of course, I think it's been difficult for him.

"He is on the right path now. He can't look back now. He's close and he's edging closer. He's been with the team the last week or so. So he's moving in the right direction.

"Maybe Swansea is an option for Ethan, we'll have to see. He's got two hard days planned today (Thursday) and tomorrow (Friday). We'll have to see how he comes out the other side of these next two days.

"He will have a down day on Saturday, and then we'll prep going into Swansea. We'll see where he is after that and make the call.

"There is still a lot of football to be