{"id":726190,"date":"2026-08-03T15:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726190\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T15:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:15:10","slug":"swansea-city-news-vitor-matos-confirms-defender-joel-wards-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726190\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea City news: Vitor Matos confirms defender Joel Ward&#8217;s exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following the conclusion of the 2025-26 campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cvgz9nm8r0po\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Swansea confirmed they were in talks with Ward<\/a> over the possibility of extending his time at the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Matos was eager to wish the defender well for the future after Swansea opted against offering the former Crystal Palace man fresh terms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He will have a brilliant future in what he decides to be, even if he is a manager or another role in football, or even not in football because he is a wonderful person with really good values,&#8221; added Matos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just wish him all the best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">First-choice right-back Josh Key is now in the final year of his contract at Swansea &#8211; who have allowed Sam Parker to join Wycombe Wanderers on loan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have welcomed academy product Filip Lissah back into the squad this summer following his successful season-long loan with Scottish side Falkirk last term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the conclusion of the 2025-26 campaign, Swansea confirmed they were in talks with Ward over the possibility&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-726190","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\/726190","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=726190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}