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Swansea's Sam Clucas credits Glenn Hoddle Academy for staying in football

Sam Clucas has no worries about filling Gylfi Sigurdsson's shoes at Swansea after fighting his way from Debenhams to the Premier League.

Swansea started spending the £45million Everton paid for Sigurdsson by handing over £15m to Hull this week for 26-year-old Clucas.

The deal could rise to a club-record £16.5m with potential add-ons, but that figure or the fact that Icelandic playmaker Sigurdsson was his predecessor in the Swansea midfield does not faze Clucas.

Nor perhaps should it when considering that Clucas has had to battle his way to the top after being released by Leicester as a youth because he was deemed too small.