{"id":683990,"date":"2026-01-09T07:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/683990\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:32:15","slug":"manchester-city-finalising-deal-for-usa-midfielder-sam-coffey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/683990\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City finalising deal for USA midfielder Sam Coffey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Manchester City are finalising a deal to bring in United States midfielder Sam Coffey from Portland Thorns.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City are preparing to pay a fee which is understood to be in the region of $800,000 (\u00a3600,000) for Coffey, whose Thorns contract runs through to the end of the 2027 National Women&#8217;s Soccer League (NWSL) season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old has been a City target for several months with the club making an approach for her in the summer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Terms have been agreed, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jan\/08\/sam-coffey-manchester-city-portland-thorns-transfer-talks-uswnt-midfielder\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports, external<\/a> suggest Coffey, widely regarded as one of the best defensive midfielders in the world, has been granted permission to fly to England to complete the move to the Women&#8217;s Super League leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coffey has made 42 appearances for the USA national team and almost 100 for Portland Thorns during a four-year spell at the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City are finalising a deal to bring in United States midfielder Sam Coffey from Portland Thorns. City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-683990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115863981099057904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683990","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=683990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}