{"id":733566,"date":"2026-01-31T18:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/733566\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T18:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:28:15","slug":"former-northern-ireland-under-21-star-set-to-swap-linfield-for-irish-league-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/733566\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Northern Ireland Under-21 star set to swap Linfield for Irish League rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Charlie Allen will swap Linfield for Ballymena United\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/f847044e-4ab8-405c-b5f7-f45aa04d3bf6.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Charlie Allen will swap Linfield for Ballymena United<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Former Northern Ireland Under-21 ace Charlie Allen is primed to be the latest Linfield player to join Ballymena United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It is understood that playmaker Allen has agreed a pre-contract with the Sky Blues for a summer switch \u2013 whether a deal will be done to accelerate the move in this transfer window remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Allen will swap Linfield for Ballymena United Former Northern Ireland Under-21 ace Charlie Allen is primed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5011],"tags":[117021,29309,1144,8541,30649,16,15],"class_list":["post-733566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-northern-ireland","tag-ballymena-united","tag-linfield-fc","tag-northern-ireland","tag-sports-direct-premiership","tag-steven-beacom","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115991131220979111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733566","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=733566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}