{"id":722968,"date":"2026-08-01T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/722968\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:30:10","slug":"cameron-congreve-swansea-citys-welsh-international-winger-set-for-westerlo-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/722968\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Congreve: Swansea City&#8217;s Welsh international winger set for Westerlo move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swansea City&#8217;s Wales winger Cameron Congreve is set to join Belgian top-flight side Westerlo for a seven-figure fee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Swansea academy product, 22, impressed during a loan spell at Scottish Premiership side Dundee last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Congreve&#8217;s form earned him win his first senior international caps in the June friendlies against Ghana and Romania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There had been a feeling that he could also push for a first-team place at Swansea in 2026-27, but the Championship club have instead sanctioned his exit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The deal will include add-ons and a sell-on clause, while Swansea will also be given the option to match any bid from another club should Westerlo agree to sell Congreve at any point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Congreve joined Swansea at under-nine level and will leave having made 19 senior appearances, including three league starts, for the Welsh club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He scored three goals in 36 games for Dundee after scoring six times in 47 appearances during a loan spell at Bromley in 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swansea sold another Welsh international, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/ckgd3l5lek7o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Cullen, to Leicester City<\/a> on Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swansea City&#8217;s Wales winger Cameron Congreve is set to join Belgian top-flight side Westerlo for a seven-figure fee.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-722968","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\/722968","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=722968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}