{"id":255360,"date":"2025-07-11T05:23:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T05:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/255360\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T05:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T05:23:20","slug":"southampton-fc-seal-signing-of-young-sheffield-wednesday-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/255360\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton FC seal signing of young Sheffield Wednesday midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The 18 year old arrives after his departure from Championship Sheffield Wednesday, and will link up with the under-21s on a two-year deal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Kakay rose through the ranks at Wednesday since he joined their youth set-up in the under-16s, and enjoyed an impressive 2024\/25 campaign.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The youngster was a regular at under-18s level, featured for the under-21s, and gained\u00a0experience in first team training with Danny Rohl&#8217;s\u00a0side.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  After signing for Saints, Kakay said: &#8220;It&#8217;s what I have worked hard for all my life to sign my first professional contract, I can&#8217;t wait to get started.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Sutura Kakay signing for Saints at Staplewood\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Sutura Kakay signing for Saints at Staplewood (Image: Stuart Martin \/ Southampton Football Club)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;With the history of the club bringing a lot of young players through, I thought this was the perfect pathway for me to exceed in my career.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Director of group talent strategy, Andy Goldie\u00a0added: &#8220;Sutura is another positive addition to the under-21s, adding quality and competition to our midfield pathway.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He brings a different dynamic to the profile we already have, providing real athleticism and vision which he maximises particularly in transition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It was these qualities that are what attracted Mariela Nisotaki\u00a0and her team to make him our first under-21s acquisition of the summer, and we look forward to developing those further over the next two seasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 18 year old arrives after his departure from Championship Sheffield Wednesday, and will link up with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-255360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114832933367889685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}