{"id":669744,"date":"2026-07-02T12:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/669744\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T12:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:14:09","slug":"kit-margetson-swansea-city-goalkeeper-to-join-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/669744\/","title":{"rendered":"Kit Margetson: Swansea City goalkeeper to join Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wales Under-21 goalkeeper Kit Margetson is poised to leave Swansea City for Manchester United.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old is the son of Martyn Margetson, who left his role as Swansea’s head of goalkeeping<\/a> at the end of last season.<\/p>\n

The younger Margetson joined Swansea at under-15 level and, though he has not featured at first-team level for the Championship club, he played regular senior football during a loan spell at Connah’s Quay Nomads in 2025-26.<\/p>\n

With Margetson’s contract up this summer, Swansea said in May that they were “in discussions” with the player over a new deal.<\/p>\n

However, Swansea are now expecting Margetson to depart, with United likely to pay a compensation fee to secure his services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales Under-21 goalkeeper Kit Margetson is poised to leave Swansea City for Manchester United. The 19-year-old is the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-669744","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\/669744","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=669744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}