Dane staying at Liberty Stadium despite issues with agent.
Michael Laudrup has insisted he wants to stay at Swansea after being linked with a move to PSG.
Reports in French daily L’Equipe claimed the Dane has emerged as PSG’s top choice to replace outgoing head-coach Carlo Ancelotti, after Tottenham’s Andre Villas-Boas snubbed a move to Paris.
But the 48-year-old, who is under contract in south Wales until June 2015, says he is happy at the Liberty Stadium.
“I have repeated it so many times in the last three months. My intention is to stay,” the former Mallorca boss is quoted as saying by the Guardian.
But Laudrup’s position at Swansea remains unstable after a dispute between the club’s chairman, Huw Jenkins, and the Dane’s representative, Bayram Tutumlu.
Laudrup, who has worked with Tutumlu since his playing days at Barcelona has made it clear he will continue to work with him, despite reports Tutumlu has been banned from involvement in any transfer dealings by Jenkins.
“Bayram is my agent and that’s not going to change. If the club do not want to work with him, or Bayram does not want to work with them, it’s their problem, not mine.
“The only thing I care about is to have the best players possible at Swansea who are within range of the economy of the club.
“I have 100 per cent confidence in Bayram, but if the club don’t want to work with him or he doesn’t want to work with them, they have to live with that. It will not change my relationship with Bayram one centimetre.
“The only thing I am interested in is having the best players at Swansea within the budget that is possible.
“That’s what I have been fighting for every day, last year when I arrived and this year as well. That will always be the most important thing for me, wherever I end up in the future.”
Jenkins’ disagreement with Tutumlu is reportedly over the transfer budget available to Laudrup this summer and the agent’s involvement in the potential sale of Ashley Williams, who Swansea have no intention of selling despite interest from Arsenal.
Tutumlu said: “I don’t work for Swansea City. Huw Jenkins has paid me nothing, but I have spent a lot to try to bring players to Swansea.
“My relationship with Michael Laudrup is excellent, as he has told you himself. Nothing changes between me and Michael. I have known Michael for 25 years.”
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