Swans sign up Arsenal goalkeeper on a four-year deal
Well that's a good way to start a Thursday morning! Firstly, I woke up on time so for the first time this week my work preparation wasn't a semi-naked scramble around my house, and secondly we've just announced the signing of Lucasz Fabianski.
This has been rumoured for quite a while, and while some are still clinging to the "FlappyHandsSki" tag personally I think he's a very good goalkeeper, and if pushed I'd say he's an improvement on either of the 'keepers we've been able to call on this season. I've become disillusioned with Vorm, while Tremmel seemingly went from hero to zero in the space of one season. Wherever he went on holiday last summer, you best be sure that destination is banned by the club for future holiday exploits, as he was a completely different stopper last season and seemed bereft of the confidence which made him such a steady pair of hands the season before.
That's why I expect Fabianski to come straight in as our number one goalkeeper. I'm actually fairly stunned we managed to pull this off - at times this season he kept Kojak Chesney out of the Arsenal team, and I'm sure we were far from the only option he had. With no European football to worry about though, it's more than possible the club have (understandably) pitched next season as a serious push into the top ten, and as with any player the possibility of playing week in week out is the biggest lure of all.
He's agreed a four year deal and will join for free at the end of his current Arsenal contract this summer (though I have no idea how much we'll be paying him), and it's hard to see this as anything other than the end for one of our two preexisting goalkeepers. With Vorm supposedly the subject of interest from a couple of big clubs, selling him at a profit and bringing in Fabianski on a free could prove to be one of the outstanding bits of business anyone does this summer.
What's more, that's definitely a transfer steeped in the traditions of the Swansea way. Sell high, buy... well, don't buy. Sign for free! Well played chaps. Well played.