{"id":220088,"date":"2025-06-28T01:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T01:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220088\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T01:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T01:40:11","slug":"london-city-lionesses-set-to-sign-defender-poppy-pattinson-after-brighton-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220088\/","title":{"rendered":"London City Lionesses set to sign defender Poppy Pattinson after Brighton exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London City Lionesses are set to complete the signing of left-back Poppy Pattinson on a free transfer from Brighton and Hove Albion.<\/p>\n<p>It was announced in May that Pattinson, 25, would be departing Brighton when her contract expires this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The former England youth international had offers from elsewhere in the Women\u2019s Super League, including from Everton, but has opted to join the newly-promoted London City ahead of their debut season in the top flight.<\/p>\n<p>London City won promotion to the WSL on the final day of the 2024-25 campaign following a summer of significant investment under the ownership of Michele Kang.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. business woman Kang completed the takeover of London City in February 2024, with Sweden international Kosovare Asllani and forward Izzy Goodwin, the Championship\u2019s top scorer from the 2023-24 campaign, among their statement signings last summer.<\/p>\n<p>They have already completed the addition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6440097\/2025\/06\/20\/wsl-van-de-donk-london-city-lioness-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former Arsenal midfielder Danielle van de Donk<\/a> following the expiration of her Lyon contract this summer as they prepare for their first season in the top flight.<\/p>\n<p>Pattinson made 18 WSL appearances for Brighton last term as the club finished fifth.<\/p>\n<p>She joined Brighton from Everton in 2022, having previously had spells at Bristol City, Manchester City and Sunderland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Photo: Molly Darlington\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London City Lionesses are set to complete the signing of left-back Poppy Pattinson on a free transfer from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15,9201],"class_list":{"0":"post-220088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-womens-soccer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114758446184637096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220088","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=220088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}