...but it's not the manager. Yet. 

Away from the Wada Commission, Swansea City have parted company with Spanish forward Michu by mutual consent. 

Both parties have reached a financial agreement over the remainder of the 29-year-old’s contract, which ran until the end of this season, and he will now become a free agent.

Michu, who joined from Rayo Vallecano in July 2012, scored 28 goals in 67 appearances for the Swans.

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The report also:

• Revealed many instances of inadequate testing and poor compliance around testing standards.

• Recommended that Wada withdraw its accreditation of the Moscow laboratory as soon as possible and that its director, Grigory Rodchenko, be permanently removed from his position.
• Found that a number of Russian athletes suspected of doping could have been prevented from competing at the London 2012 Olympics had it not been for "the collective and inexplicable laissez-faire policy" adopted by the IAAF and the Russian athletics federation.
• Suggested that neither the Russian athletics federation (Araf) the Russian anti-doping agency (Rusada), nor the Russian Federation can be considered anti-doping code-compliant.

We know there has been a lot of information flying about over the last half-hour and more, so here's a breakdown of the key findings of the Wada Commission.

*Russia should be banned from athletics competition. because of doping, cover-ups, and extortion in Russian athletics.

*It wants five athletes and five coaches to get lifetime doping bans.

*The report also identified "systemic failures" in the IAAF that prevent an "effective" anti-doping programme.

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IAAF president Sebastian Coe is to seek approval for sanctions against Russia in the light of the doping allegations in the Wada Independent Commission report.

"The information in Wada's Independent Commissions Report is alarming. We need time to properly digest and understand the detailed findings included in the report. 

"However, I have urged the IAAF Council to start the process of considering sanctions against Araf (Russian Athletics Federation). This step has not been taken lightly.

"Our athletes, partners and fans have my total assurance that where there are failures in our governance or our anti-doping programmes we will fix them. 

"We will do whatever it takes to protect the clean athletes and rebuild trust in our sport. The IAAF will continue to offer the police authorities our full co-operation into their ongoing investigation."

Russia’s sport minister, Vitaly Mutko,has denied all allegations, while the RusAthletics, the Russian track and field federation, has accused WADA of circumventing established protocols for dealing with doping.

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“Any suspension should be discussed at the meeting of the IAAF [International Association of Athletics Federations] in November,” the acting head of RusAthletics, Vadim Zelechenok, told R-Sport channel. “It should be proven that any violations were the fault of the federation and not individual sportspeople. We should be given a chance to clear our names.”

A spokesman for Fifa’s ethics committee on Wada independent commission, in light of Russian sports minister Mutko’s role, tells the BBC: “We will carefully analyse the findings of the report. Before this, there is nothing to say about the matter.”

Mutko is also member of Fifa’s executive committee.

It was suggested Russia should not be able to host the 2018 World Cup by a journalist during the Wada Commission news conference,  

Some extraordinary extracts from the report on the role of the Russian anti-doping agency

*Gave athletes advance notice of tests, hid missed tests

*Bullied doping control officers and their familes, took bribes to cover up missed tests

*Allowed banned athletes to compete before ban was up

*Inadequate reporting of ‘whereabouts’ to assist no-notice testing

How long has this been going on, Pound is asked. "We picked up an investigation at a certain time but my guess is that this is an inherited attitude from the Cold War days.

"The real tough thing is that with money prizes is that the money is probably gone."

State supported cheating, evidence destroyed ... should Russia deserve to still be able to host the World Cup in 2018?

Dick Pound: "We had a very narrow mandate. We looked at athletics. Fifa has to sort out its own difficulties without our help."

Good question, well side-stepped.

Dick Pound: "The credibility of sport has taken some serious bodyblows over the last few months. The difficulty for all of us is that it doesn't stop there. The public view will move towards believing all sport is corrupt.  

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"If you can't believe results then there is a serious credibility problem. I hope all sports will look at their governance and their anti-doping systems because their existence may be at risk."

Where is the punishment? asks a journalist.

"If they are suspended they are out of competition until they are unsuspended," says Dick Pound.

But can they come back in three months though, if they say they are clean? adds the journalist.

"Yes, if they got that all done in three months and we are satisfied then yes," responds Pound.

"Their lab is gone. We have recommended their athletics federation is suspended, so they're gone - assuming that recommendation is followed.

"Then we say if you want to get back, here's the road back - and they have to satisfy Wada and everyone else in order to get back.

"I think it would take several months at least for them to do that."

Here's a strong line to say the least.

The London 2012 Olympics were "sabotaged" by the presence of Russian athletes with suspicious doping profiles, the Commission has found.

Their report blames the "widespread inaction" of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) plus the Russian athletics federation (ARAF) and the Russian anti-doping agency (RUSADA) for allowing these athletes to compete at the Games.

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"The IC (independent commission) has noted a cumulative lapse of action from the IAAF, ARAF and RUSADA in conjunction with pursuing suspicious profiles," the report stated.

"As a result of this widespread inaction, the Olympic Games in London were, in a sense, sabotaged by the admission of athletes who should have not been competing, and could have been prevented from competing, were it not for the collective and inexplicable laissez-faire policy adopted by the IAAF, ARAF and RUSADA."

Should another inquiry tackle other federations and other countries.

"We feel we have kind of done our job for the moment.Maybe other commissions will tackle that," says Dick Pound.

"But you're right when you mention the tip of the iceberg.

"We don't feel Russia is the only country with a doping problem and athletics isn't the only sport with a doping problem."

Pound then tells how more than 1,000 tests were destroyed.

Dick Pound: "When I was Wada president, we were just getting started on this and our staff would have received and decided how to act upon it. 

"One of the recommendation is to get better organised and organisations should have an Ombudsman so you are not putting your personal safety at risk.

"You don't want to encourage retaliation and the balance of power between whistleblower and the system is out of all proportion. The power of the national federation is enormous and that is the reluctance the whistleblower has."

If you are wondering, by the way, why we are not hearing much about the IAAF, it is because the commission has withheld most of the contents of the chapter.

This is in order to not compromise the continuing efforts in respect of information provided to Interpol.

Most of the IC’s Recommendations in respect of the IAAF are being withheld until criminal proceedings have run their course.

This really is damning stuff. Dick Pound is asked if the Russian Minister of Sport could have known what was going on.

"The extent of what was going on ... it was so prevalent that in our conclusion it was not possible for him to be unaware of it.

"If he was aware of it then he was complicit in it. That's our inference from all our evidence that we had a chance to examine."

Dick Pound: "I don't think we can be confident there was no manipulation with the Sochi Winter Olympic results.

"The Sports Minister is frustrated to some degree. They all knew the coaches were out of control and the coaches view was that the anti-doping organisation was to protect their athletes rathter than have them doping-free.

"He knows there will be condemnation but we have given him the opportunity he has asked for and there will be careful monitoring of what is done. They will have to start all over again.

"As far as Rusada there will be careful supervision of its activities by Wada before it will be willing to declare them compliant."

Dick Pound describes what has happened as 'State-supported doping' - "Our conclusion was this couldn't happen without the knowledge or consent of state authorities. Even though they were not running sport, they could not not have known."