Swansea City headlines as pundit says Pato spat has cost Swans play-offs, Wilfried Bony 'like a plane' and Obafemi goes viral

These are your Swansea City headlines on Tuesday, February 8.

Sky pundit Don Goodman says the Jamie Paterson saga has cost Swansea an outside shot at the play-offs this season.

Paterson missed a number of matches at the turn of the year due to a dispute over his contract extension at the club.

Swansea's form dipped without their main creator, and Goodman believes his absence has come at a price.

He also questioned what Swansea want to be as a football club.

"You could see what he brings to the party," Goodman said of Paterson's man-of-the-match performance against Blackburn Rovers on the latest EFL Podcast.

"One of Swansea's big problems and why they're not a little bit further up the table is the lack of goals.

"I think there are only four teams who have scored fewer than Swansea. Jamie Paterson has been at the heart of an awful lot of the goals they have scored in terms of creativity and sticking the ball in the back of the net himself.

"He's scored some brilliant goals this season, important goals. It's such a shame really. I look at Swansea and it wasn't that long ago they were in the Premier League. I look and I ask myself 'what do Swansea City Football Club want? What do they want to be?'

"Do they want to be a mid-Championship football club because the last two seasons under Steve Cooper they finished sixth and last season fourth. Possibly - not possibly, definitely - a massive overachievement with what they had at their disposal.

"But Steve Cooper left for a reason, and it brings me back to Jamie Paterson. Steve Cooper left because he didn't feel that he was going to get the relevant backing from the Swansea City board to progress that football club.

"Progression from sixth and then fourth is probably pushing