Pulis confirms West Brom are prepared to sell Swansea target
Tony Pulis has confirmed West Brom are ready to sell Nacer Chadli amid strong interest from Swansea.
Swansea head coach Paul Clement has earmarked Chadli as the ideal attacker to replace Gylfi Sigurdsson, who is expected to finalise a £45m move to Everton.
Clement will step up his interest in the former Tottenham forward after Sigurdsson completes his move and Pulis has revealed the Baggies are ready to sit down with Swansea and thrash out a deal.
“It’s been publicised that Swansea are interested in Nacer - if they are, we’ll deal with Swansea,” Pulis told the Express & Star.
“Let’s just get our players in first. I’m excited at the opportunity of trying to get some of these players in.
“We’ve got targets, we’ll get them in the next two weeks, and we need to.”
Chadli became the club’s most expensive ever player when he joined West Brom from Tottenham 12 months ago but the Belgium international fell out with Pulis during the summer and was left out of the squad that travelled to Austria for a training camp.
Nacer Chadli: After scoring 4 goals in his first 5 Premier League apps for West Brom, Chadli scored just 1 goal in the subsequent 26 pic.twitter.com/krkVfpoRoq
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However, West Brom are now set to cash in on the 28-year-old, with a fee in excess of £20m being quoted as the price Swansea will pay for his services.
After scoring four goals in his first five Premier league appearances for West Brom, Chadli scored just one goal in his subsequent 26 matches and did not feature against Bournemouth at the weekend.