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Wolves midfielder Luke Cundle agrees season-long loan with Swansea

Wolves midfielder Luke Cundle has completed a season-long loan move to Swansea City.

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Cundle made seven first team appearances for Wolves and now heads to Wales in a bid to continue his development and get regular playing time in the Championship.

The 20-year-old has been at Molineux since 2014 - progressing through the academy and becoming a permanent member of Bruno Lage’s first-team squad.

The youngster signed a new long term contract with the club this year and captained James Collins’ development side, helping them secure promotion into Premier League 2 Division 1 last season.

“This is the first time Luke has been out of the Wolves environment,” said strategic player marketing manager Matt Jackson.

“He’s had a lot of involvement with the senior squad here in the Premier League, albeit without a great amount of playing time, but the training he’s had with the manager and his staff have put him at a really good place in his career.

“But we now feel he needs that experience at Championship level in a very good training environment and in patterns of play that he’ll be very used to and suit his strengths with their possession-based game at Swansea.

"We’ve worked very hard to find clubs which are a good fit for our players, and we are really confident that this is another that will fit well."

Morgan Gibbs-White enjoyed a successful loan spell at Swansea back in 2020, before having his spell cut short after fracturing his foot.

With Matheus Nunes' arrival adding strength and depth to Wolves' midfield, first team playing time was going to be extremely limited for Cundle moving forward,

“When a player goes out on loan, it’s always about the development, and we’ve seen when our other players have gone out to the Championship previously that’s it such a tough league to prove yourself in, and what we want to achieve for Luke with this move is the all-round experience he will gain by going to Swansea.

“Of course, we would like him to get game time, but it’s about progressing his own career, learning to play in tough atmospheres and high intensity games – which you certainly get in the Championship.

"But as a club, we also need to find out what exactly is his ceiling of performance, so he can come back and affect our first-team at some point in the future.”