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Jose Canas is in negotiations to cancel his Swansea City contract , the midfielder has reportedly claimed, as the club finally confirmed the departures of compatriots Chico Flores and Pablo Hernandez to Qatar.

Paperwork has been completed to seal the exits of Spanish defender Chico and midfielder Hernandez to the Middle East, Chico joining Michael Laudrup at Lekhwiya SC and Hernandez linking up with Dan Petrescu at Al Arabi. Swansea are expected to receive more than £4m for Chico and while there has been no confirmation of a fee for Hernandez, there has been suggestions it could be around half the then record £5.55m paid to Valencia in 2012.

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But it seems Swansea could have to pay out to get unwanted midfielder Canas off their books, with a move to Elche likely as the La Liga side look to replace the Aston Villa-bound Carlos Sanchez.

Canas had been told to find a new club after Garry Monk informed the former Real Betis man he did not feature in his plans for the new Premier League season. The 27-year-old has two-years left on his contract – with wages unable to be matched by many in Spanish football.

It is thought Canas had been the subject of interest from Championship clubs but any move was stopped by a want to maintain his Swansea salary. As a result, Swansea could have to pay-up the defensive midfielder who failed to convince following his Bosman move from Betis.

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A report in Spain has quoted Canas as saying he would be “delighted” to make the move to Elche but is “in a situation of ‘standby’”.

Nevertheless, Swansea have handed Canas a squad number for the coming season with the 21 shirt given to the Spaniard. Gylfi Sigurdsson has taken the No. 23 shirt despite success while wearing the No.42 in his first spell at the club.

Bafetimbi Gomis will wear the No.18, Ki Sung-Yeung has moved from No. ?? to take Chico’s No.4 and Marvin Emnes will claim the No.11 shirt vacated by Hernandez, a squad number that has previously been deemed unlucky by fans. Jefferson Montero will wear the No.20 left behind by Jonathan de Guzman after his loan stays, the Dutchman now expected to complete a £7m move to QPR.

The full Swansea city squad list

1 Lukasz Fabianski

2 Jordi Amat

3 Neil Taylor

4 Sung-Yueng Ki

5 Alan Tate

6 Ashley Williams

7 Leon Britton

8 Jonjo Shelvey

10 Wilfried Bony

11 Marvin Emnes

12 Nathan Dyer

13 David Cornell

15 Wayne Routledge

18 Bafe Gomis

19 Dwight Tiendalli

20 Jefferson Montero

21 Jose Canas

22 Angel Rangel

23 Gylfi Sigurdsson

25 Gerhard Tremmel

27 Kyle Bartley

28 Curtis Obeng

29 Jazz Richards

30 Joshua Sheehan

31 Lee Lucas

32 Liam Shephard

34 Henry Jones

35 Stephen Kingsley

36 James Loveridge

37 Scott Tancock

38 Adnan Maric

39 Kurtis March

40 NUMBER RETIRED

41 Rory Donnelly

42 Oliver Davies

43 Alex Bray

44 Sam Evans

45 Gregor Zabret

46 Kenji Gorre

47 Alexander Gogic

48 Corey Francis

49 Kristian Scott

50 Ryan Hedges

51 Joseph Jones

52 Connor Roberts

53 Adam King

54 Alex Samuel

55 Raheem Hanley

56 Jay Fulton

57 Keston Davies