{"id":713429,"date":"2026-07-27T11:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713429\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:01:10","slug":"kit-margetson-manchester-united-sign-wales-u21-goalkeeper-after-swansea-city-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713429\/","title":{"rendered":"Kit Margetson: Manchester United sign Wales U21 goalkeeper after Swansea City exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales Under-21 goalkeeper Kit Margetson has joined Manchester United after the Premier League giants agreed a compensation package with Swansea City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Margetson&#8217;s Swansea contract expired this summer and the 20-year-old announced earlier this month that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c0ryyyxkq01o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he would be leaving<\/a> the Championship club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Swans were entitled to a compensation fee for Margetson, who joined them at under-15 level, for the part they played in his development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">United have not specified the length of Margetson&#8217;s contract at Old Trafford. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Margetson did not make a first-team appearance at Swansea, though he did play regular senior football during a loan spell with Connah&#8217;s Quay Nomads last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Margetson&#8217;s exit comes after his father <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cm2r77lx9rdo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martyn left his role as Swansea&#8217;s head of goalkeeping<\/a> at the end the 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales Under-21 goalkeeper Kit Margetson has joined Manchester United after the Premier League giants agreed a compensation package&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-713429","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\/713429","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=713429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}