Manchester United legend Paul Scholes can understand Wilfried Bony swapping Swansea City for Manchester City.

Scholes wrote in the London Evening Standard: "At Manchester City, Wilfried Bony will find life very different to being the main man at Swansea.

"He is going to have to cope with playing one in two, or one in three games a week when he is used to playing every match.

"In return he has the chance of winning trophies and, on top of that, a contract that will offer financial stability for him and his family for the rest of his life.

"Those considerations can be dismissed in some quarters but who - in any walk of life - turns down the percentage pay rise that City are able to give him? He will have to compromise in some respects but it sounds like an offer he would have been foolish to refuse."