{"id":670051,"date":"2026-07-02T16:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/670051\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:01:17","slug":"sil-swinkels-sheffield-wednesday-sign-aston-villa-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/670051\/","title":{"rendered":"Sil Swinkels: Sheffield Wednesday sign Aston Villa defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sheffield Wednesday have signed Aston Villa defender Sil Swinkels for an undisclosed fee on a three-year deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old Dutchman had loan spells with Bristol Rovers, Exeter City and Chesterfield during his time with Villa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swinkels made two cup appearances for the Premier League side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The project brought me here &#8211; the people here made me feel like it&#8217;s a long-term vision and that&#8217;s something I want to be a part of,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swfc.co.uk\/news\/2026\/july\/02\/sil-swinkels-seals-owls-move-\/\" 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 Aston Villa defender Sil Swinkels for an undisclosed fee on a three-year deal. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-670051","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\/670051","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=670051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}