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DC United are planning to send players to train with Swansea City, Jason Levien has revealed.

The American - a majority shareholder with Steve Kaplan at Swansea - has given an in-depth interview on his plans for the Major League Soccer club at which he is chief executive.

Levien believes DC United should be competing at the elite level of the MLS, and the ambitions of the Washington-based club were clear for all to see when they signed Wayne Rooney from Everton in 2018.

Rooney recently ended his stint at the club having scored 23 goals in 48 appearances, with the former England star set to join Championship outfit Derby County in January.

While DC United and Swansea are two entirely separate entities and aren't reliant on each other in any way, fans in South Wales have often voiced their anger at the club's American owners over a perceived lack of investment as well as a lack of communication with the Jack Army.

Those irritations grew when the full details of Rooney's move to America emerged, with DC United paying in the region of $3m annually for the ex-Manchester United forward.

And Levien has revealed the Black and Red are hopeful of further investment in the playing squad while also stating that some members of the squad at Audi Field will be sent to train with Swansea at their Fairwood complex.

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“This is a team that should be competing at the elite levels of MLS,” he told the Washington Post.

“We strived for that in the past, but that wasn’t the expectation.

“We plan to invest in the squad. We have the resources to do it. We’ve been planning for this moment for a long period of time because we’ve known since the summer about Wayne’s departure. Even prior to that, we saw an opportunity to add firepower.

“We’ve got some key decisions to make about who returns, but we think we have a strong core, and we are going to build on that and invest in it."

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Swansea fans will hope that Levien shows the same type of ambition when it comes to backing boss Steve Cooper in the upcoming January transfer window.

The Swans recruited no fewer than six players in the summer, although they only paid a transfer fee for one of those.

Jake Bidwell signed on a Bosman deal while Freddie Woodman, Ben Wilmot, Sam Surridge and Aldo Kalulu all arrived on season-long loans.

It came after the Swans failed to sign a single player in January, with Wilfried Bony, Tom Carroll and Jefferson Montero all departing on loan while Daniel James and Leroy Fer were close to securing exits in the winter window.

Cooper has previously stated that he is happy with his current squad, although he accepts that plans need to be put in place for the future.

But speaking ahead of his side's Championship clash with Sheffield Wednesday, the head coach felt it was too early to discuss the upcoming transfer window.

"January is a pivotal moment because of the window," he said.

"It can get a little bit messy, but at the moment it’s still a touch too early to be talking too much about that.

"We’ve got a load of games to play over the Christmas period and November but we know that time is coming, we need to be in the best position possible to know where we want to go with things."

It has not been made clear which players DC United will send to Swansea, although Levien did confirm those who make the trip across the Atlantic will be in South Wales for "a few weeks".