{"id":649,"date":"2026-05-31T17:38:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=649"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:38:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:38:43","slug":"katie-mccabe-chelsea-set-to-sign-republic-of-ireland-captain-following-arsenal-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Katie McCabe: Chelsea set to sign Republic of Ireland captain following Arsenal exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Chelsea are set to sign Republic of Ireland captain Katie McCabe following her exit from Arsenal.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old left Arsenal after her contract expired, having made 305 appearances during an 11-year spell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was one of the club&#8217;s greatest players in the Women&#8217;s Super League era and helped them win the title in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The versatile full-back, who can also play as a winger or a centre-back, was absent from Arsenal&#8217;s parade on Sunday to celebrate their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c75xyz7pggyt\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Champions Cup win in February<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chelsea have had long-term interest in McCabe and held off competition from WSL champions Manchester City to secure her signature. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An approach was made by Chelsea for McCabe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/66023031\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">in 2015<\/a> but she opted to join Arsenal. They reportedly attempted again in 2023 but their bid was rejected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was offered a late contract renewal by Arsenal in April but decided to pursue other opportunities, with Chelsea and City having made their interest known.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea are set to sign Republic of Ireland captain Katie McCabe following her exit from Arsenal. The 30-year-old left Arsenal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","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\/649","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=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}