{"id":647714,"date":"2026-06-19T19:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/647714\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T19:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:52:11","slug":"ricardo-santos-sheffield-wednesday-sign-swansea-city-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/647714\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricardo Santos: Sheffield Wednesday sign Swansea City defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sheffield Wednesday have signed Swansea City defender Ricardo Santos for an undisclosed fee on a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The signing is the club&#8217;s first since being taken out of administration in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c1e278wgqwjo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a takeover by US consortium Arise Capital Partners in May.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Owls, relegated to League One last season, have the option of a further 12 months on the 31-year-old&#8217;s contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Santos joined the Swans from Bolton last summer but only made one appearance for the Championship side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He made 172 league appearances in five seasons with Wanderers and won his first cap for Cape Verde last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Once I got the call from my agent telling me that Sheffield Wednesday was a possibility, I told him, make sure you get this done,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swfc.co.uk\/news\/2026\/june\/19\/santos-signs-for-wednesday\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield Wednesday have signed Swansea City defender Ricardo Santos for an undisclosed fee on a one-year deal. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-647714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}