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Swansea captain Ashley Williams confident club will keep hold of best players

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Friday 7 December 2012 12:13, UK

Image: Ashley Williams: Expects the Swansea squad to stay together despite interest from other clubs

Swansea captain Ashley Williams is confident the club can keep hold of their best players despite attracting interest from elsewhere.

No targets

Swansea are just three points off third-placed Chelsea ahead of Saturday's home clash with Norwich, but Williams is refusing to get carried away at talk that Swansea could qualify for Europe next season. The Wales captain insists the squad have not set any targets as to where they could finish this season as they are only focused on maintaining their climb up the league. "It's nice to be up there in seventh place, but I still count downwards to see where the relegation places are before I count up to the Champions League spots," he said. "That's just natural as we want to make sure we stay in this league. "We are enjoying it at the moment and it is nice for a lot of the boys who have come up through the lower leagues to be sitting seventh in the Premier League is a nice feeling. "We have not set any targets. We did not set any targets last season and we haven't this season. "We just wanted to build on what we did last season, which I think we have done already, and try and finish as high as we can really." Interview courtesy of New Era Global Sports

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