{"id":564151,"date":"2026-07-28T20:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/564151\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:57:09","slug":"swansea-city-transfer-news-leicester-city-close-in-on-wales-forward-liam-cullen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/564151\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea City transfer news: Leicester City close in on Wales forward Liam Cullen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kilgetty-born Cullen joined the Swansea academy at the age of eight and made his senior debut in a 1-0 EFL Cup defeat by Crystal Palace under Graham Potter in August 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He scored his first goal for the Swans in a dramatic 4-1 win over Reading on the final day of the protracted 2019-20 campaign, a result that saw Steve Cooper&#8217;s men secure a Championship play-off spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cullen has scored 37 goals in 207 Swansea appearances across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Swans are hoping, though, to keep hold of last season&#8217;s Championship top scorer Zan Vipotnik and use former Celtic striker Adam Idah more consistently following his injury-hit debut campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cullen&#8217;s inability to be a regular starting number nine has often led the 27-year-old to feature in a deeper role, as he has done with Wales under Craig Bellamy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vitor Matos&#8217; side have already added wingers Elijah Just and Moussa Yeo &#8211; who can also operate in an attacking midfield role &#8211; to their ranks this summer, in addition to Stephen Welsh, Joseph Opoku and Leo Walta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kilgetty-born Cullen joined the Swansea academy at the age of eight and made his senior debut in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-564151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}