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title: "Swansea City: Herbie Kane move could be back on the cards after Liverpool admission"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/swansea-city-herbie-kane-move-could-be-back-on-the-cards-after-liverpool-admission/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Liam Togher"
section: "Swansea City News"
published: "2019-10-17T15:45:02Z"
modified: "2020-04-06T12:23:00Z"
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# Swansea City: Herbie Kane move could be back on the cards after Liverpool admission

**Swansea could reignite their interest in Liverpool midfielder Herbie Kane after his club changed their stance on the player this week.**

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[Football Insider](https://www.footballinsider247.com/sources-liverpool-to-listen-to-january-offers-for-midfielder-after-u-turn/) reported that the Reds are open to interest in the 20-year-old amid doubts in his ability to graduate into the first team, after [the same publication](https://www.footballinsider247.com/liverpool-pull-plug-on-rising-stars-exit-as-they-plan-first-team-role-for-him/) had previously stated that the Anfield club intended to keep him with a view to first team integration, with [Swansea among the teams showing an interest in him](https://www.footballinsider247.com/liverpool-pull-plug-on-rising-stars-exit-as-they-plan-first-team-role-for-him/).

Following Liverpool’s change of heart, [the72.co.uk](https://the72.co.uk/146656/hull-city-and-swansea-city-interested-in-loan-deal-for-premier-league-midfielder/) reported that the Championship club are keen on bringing Kane in on loan during the January transfer window.

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Kane has already had experience of the Football League from his time on loan at Doncaster last season, where he scored [seven times in 49 appearances](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/herbie-kane/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/314253) (0.14 goals per game) in all competitions from a central midfield role.

However, when goals in cup competitions are excluded, his League One return was a mere four goals in 40 matches (0.1 per game) including the play-offs, although he did set up seven goals in the league for Doncaster (0.17 per game) and had 10 assists in total (0.2 per game). \[[via TransferMarkt](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/herbie-kane/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/314253)\]

While his League One goalscoring tally seems modest, he still scored more often last season than any central midfielder at Swansea – Jay Fulton and George Byers each bagged three goals in 2018/19 – although Bersant Celina scored eight times from an attacking midfield role. \[[via TransferMarkt](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/swansea-city/leistungsdaten/verein/2288/plus/1?reldata=%262018)\]

Byers has already [matched last season’s scoring tally in 13 matches](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/swansea-city/leistungsdaten/verein/2288/plus/1?reldata=%262019) in the first two months of this season (0.23 goals per game), albeit with [two of his three goals coming in the Carabao Cup](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/george-byers/leistungsdaten/spieler/240083), leaving him with [one goal in nine Championship outings](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/swansea-city/leistungsdaten/verein/2288/plus/1?reldata=GB2%262019) (0.11 per game). Meanwhile, Celina has netted [twice in 11 Championship games](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/swansea-city/leistungsdaten/verein/2288/plus/1?reldata=GB2%262019) (0.18 per game).

In terms of goal creation from Swansea’s central midfielders in 2019/20, Fulton has provided [two assists in 11 games](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/swansea-city/leistungsdaten/verein/2288/plus/1?reldata=%262019) (0.18 per game) and Byers has set up [one goal in 13 matches](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/swansea-city/leistungsdaten/verein/2288/plus/1?reldata=%262019) (0.08 per game).

![](https://cdn.footballtransfertavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Verdict.png)

Kane had a lower scoring rate in League One that season than Byers and Celina have posted in the Championship so far this term, which suggests that the Liverpool man could have a job on his hands trying to displace either of those two in Swansea’s line-up if he moves to the Liberty Stadium.

He could offer more to the team in terms of creating chances rather than scoring them if he were to make a loan move to south Wales, but while he may seem more likely to get senior gametime at Swansea than Liverpool (where he has made [one senior appearance totalling eight minutes](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/herbie-kane/leistungsdatenverein/spieler/314253)), he could still expect a battle to get into the team given the current central and attacking midfield options in Steve Cooper’s squad.

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***Swansea fans, would you like to see Kane arriving on loan from Liverpool in January? Do you think he’d make much of an impact? Comment below with your views!***