Gylfi Sigurdsson not for sale, Swansea owner Steve Kaplan says
Tuesday 23 May 2017 12:49, UK
Swansea neither want nor need to sell Gylfi Sigurdsson this summer, according to their majority shareholder Steve Kaplan.
Sigurdsson, whose nine goals and 13 assists helped City retain their Premier League status under Paul Clement, said last week he was not looking for a move.
And in the wake of newspaper reports claiming Swansea had agreed a £25m fee with Everton - denied by a club spokesman - Kaplan has made it clear he is determined to keep the Iceland international.
"We all know how important Gylfi is, just as he knows how much he's valued and loved here," the American told Wales Online after meeting with Sigurdsson at the weekend.
"There's been interest in him before - there were some pretty big enquiries about him last summer and in the January window - but we didn't want to sell him then and we don't want to sell him now.
"And neither do we need to sell him. He has three years on his contract and he's part of our plans going forward under Paul Clement.
"Our aims are to make sure that we build on the successful end to the season and that doesn't include selling our best players."
Sigurdsson is in his second spell at Swansea having spent the second half of the 2011/12 season on loan in south Wales.
The midfielder left for Tottenham that summer but started just 26 league games in two seasons before returning to the Liberty Stadium on a permanent basis.
Sky sources say the figure of £25m quoted in Tuesday's newspaper reports is well short of Swansea's valuation.
