{"id":2688,"date":"2026-06-11T15:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2026-06-11T15:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:55:28","slug":"man-city-agree-deal-to-sign-englands-niamh-charles-from-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=2688","title":{"rendered":"Man City agree deal to sign England&#8217;s Niamh Charles from Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Manchester City have agreed a deal to sign England defender Niamh Charles from Chelsea.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The left-back is set to depart after six years at the club in which she has made 173 appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During her time at Chelsea, Charles has won five Women&#8217;s Super League titles, four FA Cups and three League Cups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was also part of the squad under former manager Emma Hayes who reached the Women&#8217;s Champions League final in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charles&#8217; departure from Chelsea coincides with the arrival of Republic of Ireland&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c7v9460e0pro\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Katie McCabe<\/a>who joined from Arsenal last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City, who won their first WSL title in a decade in May, want to add squad depth in the transfer window as they look to challenge in Europe next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are also expected to bring in England forward Beth Mead, who left Arsenal last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charles would provide vital WSL and Women\u2019s Champions League experience, while the England defender looks to gain regular game time and cement her place in Sarina Wiegman\u2019s squad for next year\u2019s World Cup. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City have agreed a deal to sign England defender Niamh Charles from Chelsea. The left-back is set to depart&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}