{"id":397675,"date":"2025-09-04T16:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397675\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:20:14","slug":"lfc-women-sign-barcelona-midfielder-emilia-szymczak-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397675\/","title":{"rendered":"LFC Women sign Barcelona midfielder Emilia Szymczak on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"LFC Women sign Barcelona midfielder Emilia Szymczak on loan\" title=\"LFC Women sign Barcelona midfielder Emilia Szymczak on loan\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/emilia-szymczak-statement-cover-04092025_e5b242223748dae9c7556cbe7b093a41.webp\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/>Published 1 hour ago <\/p>\n<p>By Joe Urquhart<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-hg7nzy\">Liverpool FC Women have signed midfielder Emilia Szymczak on a season-long loan from FC Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>The Poland international finalised her temporary switch to the Reds on deadline day and will now spend the 2025-26 campaign on Merseyside.<\/p>\n<p>After putting pen to paper at the AXA Melwood Training Centre, she told Liverpoolfc.com: \u201cIt\u2019s amazing to be here. This is a big club and I\u2019m so happy to be a part of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just felt Liverpool has a bright future and I know the WSL and this league is so strong, and I know I can develop more as a player here and try, and the club can offer me the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You have to accept cookies in order to view this content on our site.<\/p>\n<p>Manage Settings <\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old has predominantly represented Barcelona\u2019s B team since joining the club in 2023, though has also featured at senior level in the Copa Catalunya and during pre-season.<\/p>\n<p>Szymczak has earned 14 caps for Poland at international level so far \u2013 including representing her country at the Women\u2019s Euros this summer and in the UEFA Nations League.<\/p>\n<p>She began her professional career in her homeland with Gornik Leczna ahead of that switch to Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Szymczak will wear the No.6 shirt in Gareth Taylor\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n<p>In a message to supporters during her arrival interview, she added: \u201cI can\u2019t wait to see all of you on Sunday and at all of the games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to assure you that I will give everything for the group and everything to make you happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Published 1 hour ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 1 hour ago By Joe Urquhart Liverpool FC Women have signed midfielder Emilia Szymczak on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1050,1051,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,1042,1047,79,1043,16,15,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-397675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-firmino","10":"tag-homepage","11":"tag-klopp","12":"tag-lfc","13":"tag-lfc-news","14":"tag-lfctv","15":"tag-lfctv-go","16":"tag-liverpool-fc","17":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","18":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","19":"tag-liverpool-football-club","20":"tag-mane","21":"tag-reds","22":"tag-salah","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-the-reds","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115146943740568265","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397675","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=397675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}