{"id":56777,"date":"2026-07-16T15:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/goncalo-franco-swansea-city-midfielder-faces-lengthy-spell-out-with-ankle-injury\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T15:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:33:28","slug":"goncalo-franco-swansea-city-midfielder-faces-lengthy-spell-out-with-ankle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/goncalo-franco-swansea-city-midfielder-faces-lengthy-spell-out-with-ankle-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Goncalo Franco: Swansea City midfielder faces lengthy spell out with ankle injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swansea have also said farewell this summer to another midfielder, Malick Yalcouye, after he played 36 times while on loan from Brighton and Hove Albion last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As it stands, the likes of Marko Stamenic, Jay Fulton, Melker Widell and Leo Walta are options in central midfield, where Swansea now look a little light on numbers having had good depth last season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matos&#8217; team start the 2026-27 campaign with a Carabao Cup tie against Birmingham City on Saturday, 8 August, with the league season beginning with a trip to Stoke the following weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swansea&#8217;s only summer signings to date are centre-back Stephen Welsh and winger Moussa Yeo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cdr4r7y67p8o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swansea have also said farewell this summer to another midfielder, Malick Yalcouye, after he played 36 times while on loan from Brighton and Hove Albion last season. As it stands, the likes of Marko Stamenic, Jay Fulton, Melker Widell and Leo Walta are options in central midfield, where Swansea now look a little light on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[15995,297,616,8643,15992,2287,15993,1044,15994,4518],"class_list":["post-56777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-ankle","tag-city","tag-faces","tag-franco","tag-goncalo","tag-injury","tag-lengthy","tag-midfielder","tag-spell","tag-swansea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56777","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=56777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56779,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56777\/revisions\/56779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}