Garry Monk is standing firm. He knows he has to pull out all the stops to keep Wilfried Bony at Swansea, and the City boss has slapped a ‘hands-off’ tag on his Ivorian hitman.
Bony has been in superb form all the way through 2014, and has struck 6 times for the Swans already this season, which has naturally generated further interest. Liverpool and Arsenal are widely reported to be keeping tabs on the 6-foot international, but Monk has insisted he is going nowhere:
‘It’s not a concern for me, I’m not focused on that at all. I’ve mentioned it many times, and when he signed his new contract, that this would still be the case.
‘It’s not my focus. He’s our player, a Swansea City player, and I have said many times before in football money does dictate things, but it would take an astronomical, astronomical fee for him to ever go anywhere.
‘We’re not a selling club. We don’t need to sell. We are very much committed with our players, they are committed to us and that’s how we move on.’
25-year-old Bony signed a new four-year deal with the Swans just a few weeks ago, but if he keeps banging them in against the elite of English football, surely that big money, life changing offer from a superclub is only around the corner. We’ll be watching.
Written by Michael Horne
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