Swansea City boss Luke Williams has suggested a lack of preparation was at the heart of their problems on deadline day.

Despite landing Lewis O'Brien on loan from Nottingham Forest, the Swans were foiled in their attempts to seal similar moves for Manchester City youngster Jacob Wright and RB Salzburg's Bobby Clark.

Williams believes hard lessons have to be learned, and says deals for players should have perhaps been further down the line long before deadline day. Sign up to our Swansea City newsletter here.

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Commenting on the failed move for Wright specifically, Williams said: "It's tough for young players. They've got to try to make a decision and like I said, I think it may have been something we could have had lined up long before and got done before others came came in to try to ruin the party.

"But he's a really, really good player, a really talented player, a really good spot. A really good idea to bring this player.

"We just needed to to get that done as a matter of urgency and in the right way.

"But good luck to the boy. I hope in the future that we maybe get to work with this player because it seems like a really, really bright guy and a really good footballer."

Much to the club's frustration, Wright had already visited Swansea's Fairwood training ground before eventually opting for a move to Norwich City.

Meanwhile, a move for former Liverpool man Clark similarly never quite got off the ground, with the Swans hamstrung by a key sticking point in the deal.

"I think that probably we weren't quick enough [on Clark]," Williams added. "In actual fact, it's a technicality that he didn't arrive here. It's a technicality in the rules that too many players went out [from Salzburg].

"They'd loaned out too many players. There were unable to loan out another player, so then they said they could potentially do a deal for a purchase.

"But then it's an incredible sum, and quite rightly because he's a brilliant player, but it's not something we could have done at that stage.

"So then you know you can imagine at that stage then we start to feel really like 'come on, it shouldn't have got to this point'.

"Then the chairman's like a mathematical genius so he's trying to work out a way. It was incredible actually, it was like watching Countdown. But that's unfair, it shouldn't come down to that.

"Shouldn't come down to that."

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The Swansea City Supporters' Trust released a statement this week urging the club to review its recruitment processes, a point seemingly echoed by Williams, who says the upcoming appointment for a new sporting director will hopefully have some impact.

"I certainly think that we need a restructure," he added. "We have a member of staff coming in to be football director and that's really going to help us a huge amount because I think the structure maybe wasn't right and some people maybe didn't have a lot of experience in signing players and getting deals done.

"So I think that's something that we need to learn from. I think already we have an appointment that's going to be made that's going to help that a lot considerably."