{"id":540568,"date":"2026-07-23T16:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/540568\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T16:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:41:19","slug":"all-white-eli-just-secures-championship-move-to-swansea-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/540568\/","title":{"rendered":"All White Eli Just secures Championship move to Swansea City"},"content":{"rendered":"

All White Eli Just has capitalised on a standout Football World Cup with a move to the English Championship with Swansea City.<\/p>\n

The winger’s three-year deal is subject to the relevant approval but Scottish Premiership club Motherwell said they had received a club record fee for the 26-year-old’s move.<\/p>\n

“Despite this being a new club-record fee for the club, the overall fee will remain undisclosed under the terms of the agreement with Swansea,” Motherwell said.<\/p>\n

Just links up with fellow All White Marco Stamenic at Swansea.<\/p>\n

After a strong debut season with Motherwell, where he was shortlisted for PFA Scotland’s Premiership Player of the Year and won Motherwell’s Player of the Season award, Just’s stock rose<\/a> even further with three goals at the World Cup.<\/p>\n

Just, who will wear the number 8 jersey, will look to bolster Swansea City’s pace on the wing and creativity in the final third and to provide versatility in midfield.<\/p>\n

Head coach Vitor Matos was excited by the acquisition.<\/p>\n

“He can play in more than one position and his versatility will be a great fit in the side.<\/p>\n

“Elijah joins us after performing well in all aspects of our recruitment process, and after a brilliant performance at the World Cup and we are very happy to have him with us.”<\/p>\n

Swansea City’s sporting director Ben Stevens concurred that Just would added quality to the attack across the park.<\/p>\n

“He had a phenomenal World Cup with New Zealand where he really introduced himself on to the world footballing stage after a standout season with Motherwell,” Stevens said.<\/p>\n

“We feel his profile is a strong fit for Vitor’s and the club’s footballing style and this as an exciting opportunity for all parties”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All White Eli Just has capitalised on a standout Football World Cup with a move to the English…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-540568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}