{"id":276089,"date":"2025-07-20T00:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/276089\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T00:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:43:14","slug":"sheffield-united-sign-former-everton-winger-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/276089\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield United sign former Everton winger Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Sheffield United have completed the signing of winger Lauren Thomas on a free transfer.<\/p>\n<p>WSL Full-Time were informed of the news via an official club press release from The Blades this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old moves to Bramall Lane following the expiry of her contract at former club Everton. Thomas spent last season with The Toffees, making four appearances for the club in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas made a name for herself in a five-year spell with former Barclays WSL2 club Blackburn Rovers. The winger made 76 appearances for Rovers in all competitions in which she scored four goals. Thomas regularly impressed with her performances for the Lancashire club.<\/p>\n<p>After adding Thomas to his squad, Sheffield United boss Ash Thompson said \u201cLauren brings a lot of qualities to the attack that we were looking for. She\u2019s fast, direct, experienced at this level and has gained experience at the level above last season too. She\u2019s joining us at a really good point in her career and I\u2019m looking forward to seeing what she can do with us this season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas is Sheffield United\u2019s seventh signing of the summer transfer window. The South Yorkshire club are expected to announce further arrivals in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>            About The Author<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/fawslfulltime.co.uk\/author\/danp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752972194_913_4f863ef0e212261fd4fcee38a8103127\"  class=\"avatar avatar-150 photo\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/fawslfulltime.co.uk\/author\/danp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Pentland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am the editor and owner of the WSL Full-Time brand which I launched in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>I am an accredited journalist with the FWA, SJA and AIPS. I have reported from various levels of men\u2019s and women\u2019s elite football since 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield United have completed the signing of winger Lauren Thomas on a free transfer. WSL Full-Time were informed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-276089","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\/114882793321333228","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276089","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=276089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}