Borja Baston

[manic-road]

Is this a loan or a buy?

[hilts_coolerking]

Is this a loan or a buy?

If we're getting him on a free, as is being suggested, then I assume it's a buy.

[MalcolmP]

Welcome Borja, please be better than Hogan and Kodjia

Nothing suggests he is I'm afraid. Doesn't make any sense to let Hogan and Kodjia go to replace them with a Swansea sub.

To call him a Swansea sub is ignoring his decent goalscoring record in Spain.

In the second division? Last four seasons, he has scored 13 goals in 77 games with three different clubs. Prolific he ain't!

  a lot more prolific than Keinan Davies

[Risso]

What was all that about us being at the top table now, and wanting Premier League quality players?  All very well coming out with that, but then when you get a free Swansea reserve you look a bit daft.

[eamonn]

Tom Carroll, this chap...maybe next January 31st we'll finally get Leroy Fer.

[villa `cross the mersey]

What was all that about us being at the top table now, and wanting Premier League quality players?  All very well coming out with that, but then when you get a free Swansea reserve you look a bit daft.

Maybe Suso signing up all his "clients" from Spain or they are relatives
It's all looking a bit " small time" and doesn't suggest the owners are busting a gut to stay up - gambling on what we have already - I wonder if Smith was expecting more
 

[Toronto Villa]

Let's just hope we are getting the Zaragoza and Eibar version or even the one that started the season strongly. Like Drinkwater there was a time they were both rated much more highly. Granted quite the gamble on our part to try to rehabilitate them both at PL in the midst of a relegation battle.

We just need to get over the finish line this season and everything will look better.

[JD]

Seems the club can't win. Maybe we were trying to get in better players but for whatever reason they were not available.

I have no problem with this signing, as it adds an extra forward, which is what we have been hoping for. He won't be first, or even second choice, but it's another player and a further option. I welcome it.

 

[Nii Lamptey]

Apart from the keeper, can anyone honestly say that this has been a successful window? A third choice striker in a dysfunctional Swansea team is not the answer, even if free surely?!

Yes, it's cheap, but it's more about the negative message it sends out to potential targets (players that would actually 'improve' us). If FFP is the reasoning behind it then fair enough, but we've seen what impact an out of sorts striker can have on our performances for most of this season... we don't need a mk2 - Better off playing a false 9 like we have been recently if it comes to it imo.

[langleylions]

im sure the club were trying to get someone better in but not many forwards have left today , what pisses me off is we should have been doing the groundwork i nov & dec and a striker should have been announced on the 1st jan !!!!

[SaddVillan]

Damned if they do, damned if they don't

Before going overboard with the criticism, look at where we are both in terms of finance and League position.

Which players were we "rumoured" to be signing?
Where did they go and how much was spent?

FFP and the possibility of relegation undoubtedly affected our ability to spend bigly, or to be as attractive to foreign players as we might think we are - mega wages might have tempted them, but that's money we don't have (at present).

[JD]

We've signed Samatta as well though. That's two forwards if we get this one in. Samatta will be first choice and this guy will be the back up. No problem with that.

[SoccerHQ]

He had a fantastic season for Eibar in 15/16, close to 20 league goals there. Since then he's been a flop, 1 goal for Swansea in 16/17 and just 5 goals in last two seasons for Malaga and Alaves.

Out of nowhere Swansea gave him another chance and he did score a few at the start of the season but hasn't scored since 28th September.

It's a punt but Andre Ayew would actually be a better fit given he can out wide. Can only presume Suso knows him from Spain so it's a last minute Plan D call and he's obviously happy to come given he's bench warming for a championship team.

One thing that confuses me is we're actually signing him permanetly. What use would he have next season? Perhaps we'll just flog him to a La Liga team for a couple of million in the summer if he scores a couple of goals.

[itmustbe_it is!]

FFP signing, no more , no less. It's not a reflection of ambition, more one of artficial spending constraints. See what happens next year, when (!) we stay up

[Steve67]

Welcome Borja, please be better than Hogan and Kodjia

Nothing suggests he is I'm afraid. Doesn't make any sense to let Hogan and Kodjia go to replace them with a Swansea sub.

To call him a Swansea sub is ignoring his decent goalscoring record in Spain.

In the second division? Last four seasons, he has scored 13 goals in 77 games with three different clubs. Prolific he ain't!

  a lot more prolific than Keinan Davies

Who is at least a Premier Division player.