{"id":700489,"date":"2026-07-19T20:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T20:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700489\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T20:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T20:45:09","slug":"swansea-city-transfer-news-swans-close-in-on-deal-for-motherwells-elijah-just","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/700489\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea City transfer news: Swans close in on deal for Motherwell’s Elijah Just"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swansea City are close to agreeing a deal to sign Motherwell’s New Zealand international winger Elijah Just.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old played in all three of the All Whites’ games at this summer’s World Cup and scored three goals.<\/p>\n

Championship side Swansea will have to pay a sizeable fee – and break Motherwell’s club record for a sum collected – to secure the services of Just, who has also been linked with Celtic.<\/p>\n

Just joined Motherwell in 2025 having spent the majority of his career playing in Denmark.<\/p>\n

He made 43 appearances for the Fir Park club, scored seven goals and was nominated for Premiership player of the year.<\/p>\n

Just would join fellow New Zealand international Marko Stamenic at Swansea should he complete a move to Wales.<\/p>\n

He would also be reunited with summer signing Stephen Welsh<\/a>, who spent last season on loan at Motherwell from Celtic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swansea City are close to agreeing a deal to sign Motherwell’s New Zealand international winger Elijah Just. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-700489","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\/700489","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=700489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}