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title: "Swansea City: Fans were buzzing to see Alan Tate return"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/swansea-city-fans-were-buzzing-to-see-alan-tate-return/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Tommy Joyce"
section: "Swansea City News"
published: "2019-09-18T12:05:59Z"
modified: "2020-04-06T12:23:10Z"
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# Swansea City: Fans were buzzing to see Alan Tate return

**Many Swansea City fans have expressed their joy after the announcement that club legend Alan Tate has joined Steve Cooper’s first-team coaching staff.**

Tate has played over 350 games for the club and has spent the past six weeks working within the manager’s set-up.

The former defender retired in 2016 after a spell at Port Talbot and has been coaching at Swansea since, starting as a youth team coach.

The 37-year-old will now take on a role which sees him act as the link between the academy and the first team.

This is the second time a former figure has rejoined the club recently as Leon Britton was [recently made the club’s sporting director.](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/championship/swansea-city/swansea-city-fans-love-club-legend-being-appointed-to-new-role/)

Unsurprisingly, Swansea fans absolutely loved to see a club legend come back to the Liberty, and the responses on Twitter show exactly that.

Here are some of the responses below…

https://twitter.com/OxOsp/status/1173623937395298304?s=20

https://twitter.com/Niall\_bryant/status/1173620354201325571?s=20

https://twitter.com/scfctheo/status/1173620454512300032?s=20

https://twitter.com/29Akerman/status/1173624348051157000?s=20

https://twitter.com/Minimitch87/status/1173620733551009794?s=20

https://twitter.com/Joshua\_Tilley14/status/1173622659969683456?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarryRoofing/status/1173815881480200194?s=20

https://twitter.com/dukogamers3/status/1173620437009489923?s=20

https://twitter.com/UptheSwans1912/status/1173620585852809216?s=20