Falkirk striker Botti Biabi has Swansea medical 
Falkirk striker Botti Biabi is expected to join English Premier League side Swansea City after a six-figure fee was agreed between the two clubs.The 19-year-old is a product of the Bairns' youth system but has only made 12 starts for the Scottish Championship side.Falkirk manager Peter Houston told BBC Scotland: "Botti had travelled down to Swansea and he's had his medical.
"It isn't fully done, but he is keen to join such a big club."Born in London and of Ivory Coast descent, Biabi made his Falkirk debut at the tail end of the 2013-14 season.
He made 31 appearances last term, mainly as a substitute, scored four goals and was notoriously sent off in a Petrofac Training Cup tie in which he head-butted two Dunfermline Athletic opponents."I would have liked to have kept him for another season," Houston told BBC Scotland.
"Perhaps it would have been the best thing for him to develop, but sometimes these moves disappear - anything can happen, injury can happen."
"It is one of these things. How can you deny a young player the opportunity?
"We always say to young players who come to the Falkirk Stadium: 'If you develop properly and big clubs come for you, we won't stand in your way'."
Houston stressed that Falkirk did not need to sell Biabi, who has not even featured on the bench in his side's opening four fixtures of the season.
"We are in a good state financially," he said. "We are one of the few clubs in Scotland probably that has money in the bank.
"Swansea won't see it as a risk, but for us to knock back six-figure fees is very difficult.
"Botti's a young and fit lad, very strong, very powerful, a good striker, has bags of potential, still to fulfil it and what Swansea have seen is that bags of potential.
"Falkirk are going to get some good money out it and they will make some better money if he produces and gets into the first team and plays first-team matches."
Houston explained that former Aberdeen midfielder John McMaster, who scouts for Swansea, had been keen on Biabi for some time.
"We visited Swansea at the end of the season there and they probably watched him in one of the games we played down there against them and took a liking to him," he said.
Houston was hopeful of adding a striker to his own squad and has had 32-year-old Lee Miller, who started his career with Falkirk and was released by Kilmarnock this summer, on trial but is also considering other options.
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