{"id":30458,"date":"2025-06-06T11:52:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/richard-montague-swansea-city-piecing-together-transfer-puzzle-says-director-of-football\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T11:52:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:52:56","slug":"richard-montague-swansea-city-piecing-together-transfer-puzzle-says-director-of-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/richard-montague-swansea-city-piecing-together-transfer-puzzle-says-director-of-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Montague: Swansea City piecing together transfer &#8216;puzzle&#8217;, says director of football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Montague, meanwhile, says there has been no interest in player-of-the-year Goncalo Franco so far this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Franco has been touted as a potential target for clubs in Europe on the back of a fine first season in Wales, but Montague said: &#8220;There is so much noise around this time of the year, which is understandable because people need things to write about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But until we have anything concrete, there is nothing for me to say about it. He has obviously had a brilliant season and we would love to keep him here, so let&#8217;s hope that&#8217;s what happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jay Fulton is another Swansea player who has been linked with a summer exit, with Plymouth Argyle mentioned as potential suitors for the long-serving Scot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Montague has suggested Sheehan&#8217;s squad needs the experience of Fulton following the summer departures of old heads like Joe Allen, Kyle Naughton and Cyrus Christie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Jay did unbelievably well for us when he came into the team at the back end of the season &#8211; he gave us some great minutes and is an unbelievable character,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is a senior player, which is probably lacking a bit in that age profile now with some of the key departures we had. He is an important player for us and there is no news about any offers or movement with Jay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ced2pzle7xlo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montague, meanwhile, says there has been no interest in player-of-the-year Goncalo Franco so far this summer. Franco has been touted as a potential target for clubs in Europe on the back of a fine first season in Wales, but Montague said: &#8220;There is so much noise around this time of the year, which is understandable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[297,5562,403,10416,10417,8485,9394,4518,7745],"class_list":["post-30458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-city","tag-director","tag-football","tag-montague","tag-piecing","tag-puzzle","tag-richard","tag-swansea","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30460,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30458\/revisions\/30460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}