{"id":758062,"date":"2026-09-02T19:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758062\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T19:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:40:09","slug":"dan-watts-exeter-sign-midfielder-from-swansea-city-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758062\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Watts: Exeter sign midfielder from Swansea City on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Exeter have signed midfielder Dan Watts from Championship leaders Swansea on a season-long loan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 20-year-old, who is yet to make a senior appearance for the Welsh club, will join the Grecians next month after he has fully recovered from an injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Watts has been with the Swans since the age of eight and signed his first professional contract in 2023. He has also featured for Wales from under-16 to under-21 level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is currently injured and unavailable and undertaking his rehab with Swansea so won&#8217;t join us for the next six to eight weeks,&#8221; Exeter boss Taylor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exetercityfc.co.uk\/WelcomeDan\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are looking forward to what he can add to the midfield group and provide competition for places.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are delighted Swansea have trusted us with the next stage of his development \u2013 he is a player they have high hopes for, and we are looking forward to the impact he has with the squad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The paperwork for the deal was completed before the transfer window closed at 23:00 BST on Tuesday but the move was only announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exeter have signed midfielder Dan Watts from Championship leaders Swansea on a season-long loan. The 20-year-old, who is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-758062","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\/758062","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=758062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}