{"id":808152,"date":"2026-03-06T15:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/808152\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T15:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:28:18","slug":"inside-london-city-lionesses-quest-for-the-big-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/808152\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside London City Lionesses\u2019 quest for the big time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heads were turned last summer when France star and PSG captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/grace-geyoro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grace Geyoro<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/sport\/football\/grace-geyoro-london-city-lionesses-world-record-transfer-b1246136.html\" title=\"Grace Geyoro: London City Lionesses deny world-record fee for France star\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrived for \u20ac1m plus add-ons<\/a>. They signed Sweden legend Kosovare Asllani, 36, Japan legend Saki Kumagai, 35, Dutch former Arsenal star Dani\u00eblle van de Donk, 34, and three former Barcelona players. When Bar\u00e7a\u2019s two-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner Alexia Putellas, out of contract in the summer, came to watch a London City game in January, rumours she could be the next arrival circulated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heads were turned last summer when France star and PSG captain Grace Geyoro arrived for \u20ac1m plus add-ons.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,86718,4884,257,37068,123229,16,15],"class_list":["post-808152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-grace-geyoro","tag-great-britain","tag-london","tag-london-city-lionesses","tag-nikita-parris","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116182941934978256","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808152","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=808152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}