Swansea City manager Michael Laudrup believes that the club need to prove that they can remain in the top flight.
The Welsh club have been predicted to be relegated at the end of the season following their first term in the Premier League with former manager Brendan Rodgers, who joined Liverpool earlier this summer.
"I have read in the last couple of weeks a lot of experts saying Swansea are one of the favourites to be relegated, because the second season is more difficult than the first," Sky Sports News quotes Laudrup as saying.
"I agree that the second season is more difficult but we have to prove these experts wrong. We have a good team, we have brought in players with experience of the highest level and we just have to show that they are wrong.
"We want to show everybody that Swansea is not just a club passing by, it's a club that wants to stay at the highest level for many years and that's a huge ambition to have."
Laudrup will begin his first season in charge of the Swans with an away trip to Queens Park Rangers.
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