January is always an exciting time of year for a football fan, with many managers putting the finishing touches to their squad in order to try and push for that important promotion or climb out of the relegation battle.

Like many clubs up and down the country, Swansea City have begun to identify transfer targets that can come in during the winter transfer window and try to improve their squad for the rest of the season and beyond.

One player that the Championship club are thought to be chasing is Celtic winger Jonny Hayes, who is out of contract with the Scottish Premiership club in the summer.

The 32-year-old winger has regularly been a bench option at best for Celtic since signing from Aberdeen in 2017, and the Scottish champions look unlikely to extend his contract past the current season.

Hayes and his representatives are free to talk to clubs from January onwards to try and arrange a pre-contract move, with Swansea just one of the clubs that is thought to be showing an interest alongside Stoke City.

Swansea fans will be excited to hear that they could potentially be snapping up a winger who would bring a winning mentality with him to The Liberty Stadium, having been around a Celtic squad that has been used to winning things in the past decade following the fall of Rangers.

While he may arrive in South Wales as a squad member, Hayes would definitely provide adequate backup for the Swans when stepping off the bench most games and he could quite easily force his way into the starting lineup if he has a strong start to life back in the English football pyramid.

What will make Swansea fans more keen for the deal to happen is that Hayes would cost the club nothing to buy, and he wouldn't be demanding high wages.

Steve Cooper has recognised that his squad needs new attacking reinforcements to keep the likes of Andre Ayew and Bersant Celina on their toes, and with the experience as well as talent that Hayes would bring to the squad, then Swansea supporters would be excited to see if they can lure the winger down to Wales.