Liverpool have signed Republic of Ireland midfielder Denise O’Sullivan on a permanent deal from North Carolina Courage.<\/p>\n
The midfielder had a year remaining on her contract with North Carolina but Liverpool have paid a club-record fee in the region of \u00a3300,000 – their previous record was the \u00a3210,000 they paid for Olivia Smith in 2024.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old brings a wealth of experience having picked up 128 caps for her country since making her debut in 2011.<\/p>\n
She has represented clubs in the United States, Australia, Scotland and England, as well as her native Ireland.<\/p>\n
O’Sullivan has played more than 150 games for National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) side North Carolina Courage across nine years, the latest of which as club captain.<\/p>\n
Liverpool\u2019s long-term project and facilities at Melwood are believed to have been a big attraction for O\u2019Sullivan, who had interest from several clubs. <\/p>\n
“It means a lot. It’s a very proud moment for myself and also for my family, who are now only a 40-minute flight away,” said O\u2019Sullivan. <\/p>\n
“It is a massive club and I think when you join a club as big as Liverpool it comes with massive responsibility and I can’t wait to get to work and to give 100% every day.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool have signed Republic of Ireland midfielder Denise O’Sullivan on a permanent deal from North Carolina Courage. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-420055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420055","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=420055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}