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The Evening Post is reporting that Brendan Rodgers is confident Darren Pratley will stay at Swansea City after suggesting the midfielder should only leave for the Premier League.

The new Swansea manager has held talks with Pratley and the midfielder's agent since taking the job last week. And despite continued interest from Nottingham Forest, Rodgers is optimistic about the chances of Pratley signing a contract extension at the Liberty Stadium.

"I have had a couple of really good chats with Darren," explained Rodgers. "He is in the last year of his contract, but he is more than happy to be here.

"I think everyone understands that if a player has the chance to move to the Premier League, they want to go because it's the biggest league in the world. But if you're not going to make a move like that, there's nowhere better to be than here.

"I think Darren understands that. He respects where I am coming from and I think he has got a new lease of life. He is enjoying the work we're doing.

"He is certainly not rushing to get out and I'm very confident we can do something to keep him here."



The Post is also saying that the man from Northern Ireland admits he is hunting for a handful of signings to freshen up his Swansea City squad.

"We are working on some new signings.

"There are only certain players who are the type for this squad and we already have a strong squad.

"But if we can just bring in two or three new faces to brighten the place up and bring that wee bit of extra edge, we will do that.

"There are a couple of things bubbling along and hopefully we can get them sorted."

Cedric van der Gun, meanwhile, hopes to play a big part in Swansea City's plans this season under new boss Brendan Rodgers, reports BBC Sport Wales.

"I enjoyed my last year, played some good football, but I think I can do a lot better," van der Gun said.

"We had a good season, a lot of points, but we didn't score a lot of goals. Defensively we were really good, offensively we didn't score a lot of goals.

"So I felt really good playing my football but I was a little bit disappointed with my own individual performance because I know I can do a lot better.

"I have played - especially in Holland - the last couple of years really well, so... from this year, offensively I want to do a lot more than I did last year."



Back to the Evening Post and Huw Jenkins has told Brendan Rodgers that his first target next season is to keep Swansea City in the Championship.

Paulo Sousa led Swansea to seventh place in the second tier last term — the club's best league finish in 27 years — after Roberto Martinez steered them to eighth in 2009.

But as Swansea adapt to life under a new manager for the second successive summer, Jenkins insists that staying out of League One rather than reaching the Premier League is the initial goal for 2010-11.

"Our first target is the same every year and that is to stay in the Championship," the Swansea chairman said.

"Our principles remain the same all the time, and the goal before each season starts is to guarantee we will spend another season at this level.

"We will see how things go over the weeks and months ahead and then maybe we can reassess things.

"But with a new manager coming in, first and foremost we have to keep things stable by staying where we are."



* The details of these reports are not necessarily the views of Swansea City Football Club.