Carlos Carvalhal puts current Swansea crop before January signings
Thursday 28 December 2017 17:18, UK
New Swansea manager Carlos Carvalhal insists he has not discussed money available for January transfers with the club's hierarchy.
The 52-year-old left Championship side Sheffield Wednesday at the weekend after they lost to Middlesbrough, and arrived at Swansea on Thursday where he took training ahead of his first press conference in charge.
Carvalhal has been given a contract until the end of the season at the Liberty Stadium, and revealed he will bring four of his former backroom team with him to the club - while Leon Britton's coaching position will be decided in the coming days.
Swansea, bottom of the Premier League, will face Watford on Saturday in Carvalhal's first game in charge, and the Portuguese boss has promised to give his players a chance to prove themselves before he makes moves in the January transfer window.
"I did not talk money with the chairman, usually I don't deal with the money, it is my romantic side talking," said Carvalhal. "I deal with footballers, then if we need - try to say which players we need.
"I will try and choose them but the money is not what I want to talk about, I am allergic to money."
Carvalhal confirmed any players brought in would be his own choices.
"I will see what players we have in mind, who we need and who the scouts of Swansea have seen,"" he added.
Carvalhal added: "I must analyse the team. You have surprises, sometimes negative, sometimes positive.
"First we want to give opportunities to these players to show they are better, individually and as a collective, than what they did so far."
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Carvalhal insisted he is not worried about his future at the club, when asked whether he needed to keep the club up to earn a new deal, and said he has always worked on a short-term contract basis.
"I prefer to stay one year, check if the chairman, fans, players are happy with me, and after see the next step," said Carvalhal." I don't want to stay in a club that the people is not happy with me.
"I don't have a problem with my future. It is not a contract that puts someone at a club. It's the day by day, you prove to the fans, the media.
"If you sign a contract and the people are not happy with you, you will be out. I have a big self-confidence in me and my fans."
