{"id":303481,"date":"2025-07-30T08:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303481\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T08:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:46:17","slug":"linfield-womens-premiership-leaders-sign-megan-bell-grace-mckimm-and-jodie-loughrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303481\/","title":{"rendered":"Linfield: Women&#8217;s Premiership leaders sign Megan Bell, Grace McKimm and Jodie Loughrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Women&#8217;s Premiership leaders Linfield have announced the signing of Northern Ireland Megan Bell.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Blues have also signed Jodie Loughrey and Grace McKimm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bell came through Linfied&#8217;s academy and moved to Durham in 2019 before she had spells at Rangers, Hearts and Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old, who has 38 international caps, won three Women&#8217;s Premiership titles in her first spell at the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Left back McKimm is a Northern Ireland youth international and joins from Cliftonville, while Loughrey joins her sister, Keri, at the club after moving from Sligo Rovers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ryan McConville&#8217;s side hold a one-point lead over Glentoran but have played a game more than their title rivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Premiership leaders Linfield have announced the signing of Northern Ireland Megan Bell. The Blues have also signed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-303481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114941315278416261","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303481","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=303481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}