Swansea City manager Paulo Sousa has left his position by mutual consent

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Swansea City manager Paulo Sousa has left his position by mutual consent and is set to take up the vacant post at Leicester City, BBC Wales understands.
The club are due to make at statement at 0930 BST on Monday.
It is understood compensation has been agreed with Leicester for Sousa who was granted permission to speak to the Foxes.
Sousa took Swansea to the brink of the Championship play-offs in his first and only season in charge.
The former Portugal international, who won the Champions League twice as a player, had two years to run on his contract at the Liberty Stadium.
But with Foxes boss Nigel Pearson leaving for Championship rivals Hull City last week, chairman Milan Mandaric made his move for personal friend Sousa.
In his one year with Swansea, Sousa guided the Welsh club to within a point of the Championship play-offs, ultimately missing out after a run of three wins in the final 13 games.
During his tenure, the Swans had one of the best defences in the division conceding 37 goals and setting a new club record 24 clean sheets as they reached their highest position for 27 years - seventh.
However, they scored the fewest goals managing just 40 and failed to score in 18 games.

Sousa's relationship with chairman Huw Jenkins appeared to become more strained as the season went on with the club refusing to break their strict budget.
It led to an outburst in April in which Sousa claimed a seven-match winless run the previous month could have been avoided had the squad been strengthened.
Jenkins played down the outburst at the time as "passion and emotion".
But he again had to quash reports of a rift at the end of the season following the failure to reach the play-offs saying a few emotional comments by Sousa had been "taken out of context".