Swansea City co-owner Jason Levien says they were set to make West Brom's Karlan Grant their highest-paid player before the deal for the striker fell through at the last minute.
On a frantic deadline day which ultimately ended in huge levels of disappointment in Landore, the Baggies pulled the plug on Grant's loan move to south Wales despite all the necessary agreements being in place.
It meant January finished with Swansea letting six players leave SA1 and no-one arriving to boost Russell Martin's threadbare squad, aside from Morgan Whittaker who was recalled from Plymouth Argyle. It was a shambles, which you can read about here.
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In an explosive interview with the Swansea City Supporters' Trust on Thursday night, Levien revealed exactly what happened with the move for the striker they so dearly craved. You can read more from the interview here.
Levien revealed they were set to make Grant their highest-paid player and that the mistakes over leaving things so late in the window must be acted upon in future.
"Jake and I have spent many hours and I've talked with Josh (Marsh) at length about this and Jake and Russ have spoken about it as well," he said.
"There's a lot to learn from this. I think we've got an execution. We've got to be quicker. We've got to have more names on our list, maybe be a little broader in our scope.
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"We've got to create our own set of deadlines outside of the deadlines provided for by the league and by the governing body. We ultimately had a player who we agreed terms with, who we were told the club agreed to terms with, who would have been the highest-paid player on the squad on a weekly basis, who had a prolific goalscoring track record in past years.
"But we went to the deadline and, literally as the moment the deadline hit, the other side decided it wasn't the right decision which was outside of our control."
You can read why the deal fell through from a West Brom perspective here.
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