{"id":707624,"date":"2026-07-23T20:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/707624\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T20:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:03:11","slug":"joseph-opoku-swansea-city-sign-ghana-winger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/707624\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Opoku: Swansea City sign Ghana winger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swansea City have completed the signing of Ghana winger Joseph Opoku from Zulte Waregem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 20-year-old joined the Belgian top-flight side in 2024, helping them to win promotion to the Belgian Pro League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has signed a four-year deal with the Championship Swans &#8211; who hold the option to extend the contract by an additional 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is a young player, who has been exposed to a lot of senior football in Belgium,&#8221; said Swans head coach Vitor Matos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He will be able to adapt to the physicality, the intensity and the amount of games in the Championship as we know he is a fast and sharp player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Opoku has joined us here in Austria (on their pre-season tour), and he has had his first training session and we&#8217;re excited to have him here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swansea City have completed the signing of Ghana winger Joseph Opoku from Zulte Waregem. The 20-year-old joined the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-707624","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\/707624","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=707624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}