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Alan Curtis appointed interim Swansea City manager

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Alan Curtis is appointed as manager of Swansea City until the end of the season.

Alan Curtis has been appointed manager of Swansea City until the end of the season, the club has announced.

The move comes after Curtis picked up five points from his first five games in caretaker charge, including their first win in two months, to keep them just outside of the Premier League drop zone.

"If the club believes I am the right man to take things forward then I will give everything I have to the role," Curtis said of his appointment. "As the weeks have gone on I feel I have grown into the job and I'm a lot happier now taking it until the end of the season.

"I firmly believe we can get the results required between now and the end of the campaign to push us up the table."

Swans chairman Huw Jenkins said that he believed keeping Curtis at the helm was "the right decision" in order to maintain the club's top-flight status.

"Alan has been with us through good and bad times and was part of the management team that helped the club secure its Football League status over 12 years ago," Jenkins told the club's website. "He is fully aware of the next important job he has ahead of him to dig deep and find the required levels of performance and motivation to secure our Premier League status – our main goal this season.

"We believe there is nobody with more knowledge and experience of the club to do that than Alan Curtis. He has served Swansea City so well for more than 40 years and played an integral part in our recent success under the likes of Roberto Martinez, Paulo Sousa, Brendan Rodgers, Michael Laudrup and Garry Monk.

"We have a person at the helm who fully represents all Swansea City stands for; has the respect of the players and who will provide the calm reassurance and encouragement of our footballing beliefs. We have all been impressed with the way he has improved performance levels over the last five games. The players have obviously responded to him because we have seen an uplift in performances."

A recent report claimed that Jenkins is planning to reappoint Rodgers as manager at the Liberty at the end of the campaign.

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