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Swansea City are set to spend the first wedge of the Gylfi Sigurdsson money on Sam Clucas, after agreeing a deal in principle to bring the midfielder to the Liberty Stadium.

Swansea had a £12million bid rejected on Friday as they stepped up their interest in the former Leicester man, who has also attracted interest from Burnley and West Brom.

But discussions over a move continued over the weekend and a fee of around £15million plus add-ons is understood to have been agreed with the Tigers, with Stephen Kingsley potentially moving the other way on a permanent basis.

Clucas is expected to travel to South Wales after Swansea's Carabao Cup tie against MK Dons to undergo a medical and to negotiate personal terms.

It is hoped, if all progresses smoothly, that he will be available for Saturday's Premier League trip to Crystal Palace.

Clucas was left out of the Hull side to face QPR at the weekend, with manager Leonid Slutsky admitting the player was "preparing to play for another club".

"Clucas is preparing to play for another club, I think a deal has been agreed," Slutsky told the Hull Daily Mail.

"It is his decision not to play today, but in the next days I think a deal will be announced.

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"I think it is a decision all together but it was his as well."

Should the formalities of the deal be completed, Clucas will become Swansea's fourth signing of the summer following the arrivals of Erwin Mulder, Roque Mesa and Tammy Abraham.

Clucas has had an unlikely rise to the top flight. After being released by Leicester and Lincoln he played non-league football before doing enough in trials at Bisham Abbey to win a two-year scholarship to the Glenn Hoddle Academy in Spain.

He signed for Hereford before climbing the ranks through Mansfield, Chesterfield and then Hull.

Swansea are also known to be interested in deals for Manchester City striker Wilfried Bony, West Brom midfielder Nacer Chadli and Stoke’s Joe Allen.

A deal to bring Bony back to the Liberty for a second spell is thought to be at an advanced stage, but hopes of a return to SA1 for Allen look to be effectively over with a deal for Clucas now in place.