Swansea sign Olympiakos defender Abbey on loan

Swansea City person signed Olympiakos’ England Under-20s world centre-back Nelson Abbey connected indebtedness for nan remainder of nan season.

Abbey, 20, near Reading to subordinate Olympiakos for an undisclosed interest successful January, erstwhile nan Royals needed costs owed to their financial problems.

But nan Reading-born subordinate has now been allowed to subordinate Swansea pinch Olympiakos keen for him to play Championship football.

“I deliberation his signing makes america a stronger squad," said Swansea caput coach Luke Williams.

“He has cardinal capacity information that we really for illustration successful position of being capable to retrieve nan crushed down him, because we are often very precocious up nan pitch.

“He has shown really bully one-v-one expertise to take sides and he shows a really bully cognition towards having nan ball, which is wherever immoderate defenders consciousness uncomfortable."

Abbey made 31 elder appearances for Reading aft coming done nan club's academy, and wore nan captain’s armband successful League One earlier leaving nan Royals.

He was besides linked pinch Luton Town – who astatine that shape were a Premier League nine – during nan January window.

Abbey made 4 appearances for Olympiakos successful nan 2nd half of past season.

He was an unused substitute arsenic nan Europa Conference League holders began nan caller Greek Super League play past weekend.

“He is simply a very bully age," Williams added.

"He is simply a very bright, intelligent feline and we for illustration that because we are dense connected nan coaching and nan meetings we have.

“I deliberation his nine person owners who understand nan EFL very well.

"He is simply a subordinate who is highly regarded astatine some clubs. They consciousness for illustration this is simply a really bully opportunity for him. They wanted to cognize a batch astir america and really we are trying to play.”

Swansea person been successful hopeless request of protect reinforcements, pinch Ben Cabango and Harry Darling their only elder centre-back options aft nan summertime exits of Nathan Wood and Bashir Humphreys.

Williams does person left-sided defender Kristian Pedersen arsenic a cardinal protect option, aft he returned to Wales pursuing a indebtedness spell astatine Sheffield Wednesday.

But it remains to beryllium seen whether nan Denmark world will still beryllium astatine Swansea erstwhile nan transportation model closes connected 30 August.

Abbey is Swansea's 5th signing of nan summertime model aft Lawrence Vigouroux, Eom Ji-Sung, Goncalo Franco and Zan Vipotnik.

They are besides moving connected a woody for French winger Florian Bianchini.