It is understood that Brendan Rodgers has been offered the vacant managerial post at Swansea City.

Rodgers, 37, is said to have accepted the job and will be unveiled as the new manager by the weekend having completed all the relevant formalities.

Swansea have been in a search for a new manager since Paulo Sousa left the club last month to take up the vacant managers role at Championship rivals Leicester City.

Rodgers has been out of work since being sacked as Reading boss in December last year. He joined the Royals only last summer from Watford, with the Madejski Stadium club paying the Hornets up to £1m for his services.

Rodgers started off in management at Watford in November 2008 after receiving a personal recommendation from “the special one” Jose Mourinho under whom Rodgers had worked at Chelsea as reserve team coach.

Swans Chairman Huw Jenkins said to the press on Wednesday;

“Brendan Rodgers was one of the first names to come into us.

“When we looked around leagues and managers that adopt our kind of football, our thoughts on the way the club should be run, the way we play and train.

“Brendan, going by what he has achieved at Chelsea and then moved on to Watford, has got those principles and has always been a candidate from day one.

“I’ve spoken to him at length like I have with a few potential managers.

“One of the main priorities is their thoughts on our football and making sure we remain different to the majority of the teams in the Football League and that’s very much in his thoughts.”

Rodgers was offered the role on Wednesday evening having travelled to Swansea in the day for a formal interview.

He has remained tight-lipped since emerging as a contender on Tuesday only saying: “It’s obviously a fantastic job but at this stage, for me, there’s nothing to say.”

Swansea have previously had approaches turned down for Gary Speed, Billy Reid and have seen other candidates Nigel Adkins and Paul Tisdale distance themselves from the role, preferring to stay at Scunthorpe and Exeter City respectively.

Jon Osterland