{"id":117994,"date":"2025-09-04T10:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117994\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T10:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:34:08","slug":"womens-super-league-transfer-deadline-day-and-new-season-build-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117994\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Super League transfer deadline day and new season build-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hasegawa deal a big move for Man City &#8211; analysispublished at 11:11 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>11:11 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2b9454c3-33ba-4022-89a3-9bae3087b458.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Emma Sanders<br \/>BBC Sport women\u2019s football news reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yui Hasegawa of Manchester City controls the ball during the Perth International Football Cup match between Manchester City and Leicester City at HBF Park\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/7ce142a3-a0bd-418a-9787-0bdcbcb484c3.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1002\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With the WSL transfer market developing at a rapid rate and fees growing considerably with each window, Manchester City have been smart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yui Hasegawa is widely regarded as one of the best defensive midfielders in the world and is integral to Manchester City&#8217;s style of play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By tying her down for the next four years, City have ensured they either keep her world-class qualities, or they receive decent money for her should a rival come in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hasegawa quickly grew into a fan-favourite and she seemlessly filled the void left by England international Keira Walsh when she joined Barcelona for a then-world record transfer fee of \u00a3400,000 in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is a huge boost for City that she sees potential to win silverware despite them failing to qualify for this season&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Champions League and it is also a significant nod of confidence for new manager Andr\u00e9e Jeglertz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City have pulled out all the stops to make her feel welcome in Manchester, bringing in Asian food specialists to produce high-quality matchday-1 meals for the Japanese players and translators to help them develop their English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hasegawa deal a big move for Man City &#8211; analysispublished at 11:11 British Summer Time 11:11 BST Emma&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-117994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}