Martinez Outlines Premiership Assault

After securing a new deal that will keep him at the Liberty Stadium until 2011, Roberto Martinez has reiterated his ultimate aim for the club to get Swansea City into the Premiership.

Successfully guiding the club to the Championship, Martinez has earned rave reviews and has taken the football league by storm. Chairman Huw Jenkins has rewarded the Spaniard with a lucrative deal to secure his services for the next three years.

Matching the same ambitions of Jenkins , Martinez has made clear his target to take the club to the highest echelons of the British game. The premiership aim may seem a lofty ambition but it is one that the trained physio firmly believes is firmly within the realms of possibility.

Fully confident of his abilities to get Swansea to the first tier in the football pyramid, Martinez has signalled a warning it may take time but he is resolved to making that dream a reality. Putting a time scale on such a push for the top flight, the former Wigan player thinks it might take up to 7 years to be a premiership force.

Martinez told the WM