{"id":667926,"date":"2026-07-01T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/667926\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:40:09","slug":"leo-walta-swansea-city-confirm-permanent-deal-for-finland-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/667926\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Walta: Swansea City confirm permanent deal for Finland midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swansea City have completed the permanent signing of midfielder Leo Walta from Swedish club Sirius for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n

Walta, 23, is understood to have agreed a three-year contract with the option of a further 12 months having initially joined the Championship club on loan in February.<\/p>\n

Swansea said when Walta arrived in Wales was that the move would be made permanent this summer<\/a> “subject to conditions”.<\/p>\n

The Finland international has had to be patient since moving to Swansea, having made 10 appearances – only three of which were starts – in the final three months of last season. <\/p>\n

But Walta did end the campaign with a bang by scoring a stunning free-kick against Charlton Athletic on the final day of 2025-26.<\/p>\n

Walta joined Swansea after an impressive final campaign in Sweden in which he scored 17 times across all competitions.<\/p>\n

He will be hoping to make a greater impression at Swansea in 2026-27 after taking part in his first pre-season with the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swansea City have completed the permanent signing of midfielder Leo Walta from Swedish club Sirius for an undisclosed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-667926","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\/667926","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=667926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}