Jamal Lowe | I have unfinished business at Swansea City

Jamal Lowe feels he has “unfinished business” with Swansea City after sealing his return to the club.

The 29-year-old is back for a second spell in SA1, having completed a loan move from Bournemouth that will see him spend the remainder of the 2023-24 season with the Swans.

Lowe scored 14 goals in 58 appearances during a first spell that saw him help the club reach the 2021 play-off final.

He went on to join the Cherries in August 2022, and had a loan spell with Queens Park Rangers over the second half of last season.

Lowe has experienced promotions with Portsmouth and Bournemouth, but admits the Wembley disappointment of defeat to Brentford with the Swans two years ago still lingers.

“I enjoyed my time here before, and we got to the play-off final which was a great achievement,” he said.

“But we did not get over the line and that still hurts me now when I look back and think about it.

“It’s something I look back on with a bit of regret, and it is something I would like to help the club put right.

“I absolutely feel I have unfinished business with Swansea, we were just 90 minutes away from being in the Premier League.

“But now it is a new manager, new players. There is a new focus and a new energy and so I feel like this is a great opportunity to help this club again.”

The Jamaica international – who was previously an England C international – started his career with Barnet and turned professional in 2012.

He had several loan spells with London-based non-league clubs and, with first-team opportunities limited, joined National League South side St Alban’s City in January 2015, before making further moves to Hemel Hempstead Town and Hampton & Richmond Borough.

At this time Lowe was combining his football with a job as a PE teacher, and putting in additional graft on his own by training in local parks and at the gym as he eyed a return to the professional game.

And he got his reward when he made the move to join former Swansea boss Kenny Jackett at Portsmouth in October 2016, signing an 18-month deal at Fratton Park.

He has not looked back since, but Lowe insists his hunger to be successful in the game remains undimmed.

“It has not always been a straightforward journey for me, it’s not like I came through an academy and got into it that way,” he said.

“But that has given me a hunger to keep going, even when things have not gone well.

“I have had limited game time last season, but coming here I feel has reignited that fire and that hunger to prove myself all over again.”

At 29, Lowe will be among the more senior figures in what is a largely youthful Swansea squad.

He acknowledges it is a different dynamic from his first spell at the club, but it’s a responsibility he is willing and ready to embrace.

“It’s definitely going to be different for me compared to my first time here. There were quite a few experienced players here like Andre Ayew, Wayne Routledge, players who were that bit older than me and had more experience than me.

“You are always going to need the older players to help the ones who are coming through because you have been at the level.

“I really want to be a part of that group, and there are already guys here like Grimesy and Naughts.

“We are a group who are of an age where hopefully we can help the younger lads and try and give whatever guidance and advice we can, set and example and help in that.”