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Swansea will move for Patrick Bamford and Charlie Austin as current stars Bafetimbi Gomis and Jonjo Shelvey move towards January transfers.

While the Swans are still working to appoint Garry Monk’s successor it is believed the club’s top brass have already decided to allow Gomis and Shelvey to move on this month, should their valuations of the pair be met.

Only Aston Villa have scored fewer Premier League goals than the Swans so far this season and the Welsh club are aware their fight to beat the drop could be undone without a regular goalscorer.

Which means they will use the funds from any sales to test QPR’s resolve over Austin, who scored 18 Premier League goals last term but had insisted he would see out the final year of his contract at Loftus Road.

But the Welsh side are hopeful a decent offer will convince the West Londoners to sell the forward rather than lose him for nothing in the summer.

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Bamford, meanwhile, has long been on Swansea’s radar.

They will look to take him on loan from Chelsea until the end of the season after the termination of his stay at Crystal Palace.

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Swans caretaker boss Alan Curtis recently admitted they needed to add to their goalscoring resources, and will certainly hope any new arrivals can improve on Gomis’ strike rate.

The 30-year-old has scored just once since the end of August, and has become an unsettling presence in the dressing room having actively pursued a move in the last two transfer windows.

The Frenchman even said his goodbyes to his team-mates as he prepared to join Dubai club Al Ahli last summer, before an alteration in financial terms saw the deal fall through.

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Swansea are expecting more interest from the Middle East, with Lekhwiya of Qatar believed to be preparing a £6.5million offer, and are ready to move him on.

Shelvey, meanwhile, is another whose attitude has come into question during Swansea’s slump in form.

The former Liverpool midfielder had been on the end of some tough treatment from Monk, but the approach helped to establish him as a regular in the England squad.

However, those standards have slipped in recent weeks and the 23-year-old was left out of the matchday squad for the games against Leicester and Manchester City.

Crystal Palace and Newcastle are understood to be interested in Shelvey, who cost £5million in the summer of 2013. The Welsh club will not stand in his way.

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