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Swansea manager Garry Monk has insisted that star striker Wilfried Bony will not be sold for an 'astronomical fee'.
The Ivorian striker has attracted interest from both Liverpool and Tottenham this summer, with both club's keen on bolstering their attacking options.
Liverpool had been set to sign Loic Remy from QPR, but have since abandoned the £8.5million deal for the France international.
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Monk is adamant that he wants Bony to stay, and insists that they are not prepared to sanction a deal at the end of a drawn-out pursuit.
“At the moment nobody has come in for Wilf and he is our player. But it can’t drag on for the whole summer," Monk told the South Wales Evening Post.
“We don’t want one of those scenarios where it’s going on right up until the last day.
“It has to be made loud and clear what is happening at some point – but at the end of the day he is not for sale unless someone comes in with an astronomical offer, which is the same with every club around the world," he added.
“Unless anyone wants to pay an astronomical fee, he will be going nowhere.”
Spurs have already completed business with Swansea this summer; signing Ben Davies and Michel Vorm while Gylfi Sigurdsson moved in the opposite direction, and Monk concedes it's only natural for club's to be interested in their players.
“There will be interest in a number of our players – that’s the way it is – but at the end of the day, Wilf is a Swansea City player,” he continued.
“Everything that has been said about him this summer has been said in the papers. We are not a paper company, so we’ll just deal with the reality.
