Swansea transfer window 'depressing' - Jones

Former Swansea City midfielder Owain Tudur Jones has described the club's January transfer window activity as "depressing".

Loan deals for Hannes Delcroix from Burnley and midfielder Lewis O'Brien from Nottingham Forest were completed as captain Matt Grimes left for Coventry.

Swansea's squad, already thin on options, is two players lighter in terms of numbers after the close of the window and that is a situation which concerns Jones.

"I always think that if you sign a player on deadline day there's a sense of panic," Jones told BBC Radio Cymru podcast, Y Coridor Ansicrwydd.

"Swansea City are a club that needed to bring in players in a bit of a panic.

"You we're hoping, by doing that, they would be lucky in bringing in good players.

"What we've seen this last week is Delcroix coming in as a centre-half and he only came in because Harry Darling is suspended for three games.

"O'Brien only came in because Grimes had left. You wonder if Darling had not been sent off and Grimes had not left, then perhaps they would not have brought anyone in and that's depressing."

As well as Grimes, Swansea allowed Azeem Abdulai to join Leyton Orient and sent Andy Fisher on loan to St Johnstone.

But the Championship club failed in their attempts to sign another central midfield player, an attacking midfielder and a wide player.

"I saw a quote from a Swansea reporter – 'Even by their own standards this January window was, however you look at it, a total disaster'," Jones added.

"Perhaps that says it all and that's the feeling around the club."