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Swansea have confirmed that they want Marvin Emnes to return to the club next season.

Swans chairman Huw Jenkins is hopeful a deal can be thrashed out with Boro in the not too distant future.

Emnes joined the Premier League side on deadline day in January and has expressed a desire to stay beyond the terms of his loan deal.

City’s season ended on Sunday when they overcame Sunderland 3-1 at the Stadium of Light to finish a respectable 12th in the table.

Emnes started that game to take his number of appearances for Swansea to nine, most of which have seen him come off the bench, and scored his only goal during that loan spell against Gus Poyet’s side.

Jenkins and head coach Garry Monk are now assessing their options as they begin preparations for a fourth successive top flight season and the Dutch playmaker is very much part of those plans.

“I think as things stand there is a fair possibility that we will look to pursue that and bring Marvin back here,” the chairman said when asked about Swansea’s interest in re-signing Emnes.

Boro are believed to be open to offers for the 25-year-old, who joined the club in a £3.2m switch from Sparta Rotterdam in July 2008.

And there’s no doubt as to where Emnes wants to spend next season.

“I’ve been on loan here before, and I had to go back to Middlesbrough afterwards,” he said recently.

“The fans have always been fantastic with me, and I want to give them something back.

“I enjoyed my time here three years ago and it is the same this time round.

"I haven’t played with a smile on my face for a long time and it feels good.”

Emnes still has a year remaining on the contract extension he signed in August 2011.

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