{"id":508427,"date":"2026-02-27T22:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508427\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T22:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:32:08","slug":"jesse-lingard-in-talks-to-join-brazilian-club-corinthians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508427\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Lingard in talks to join Brazilian club Corinthians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Manchester United midfielder Jesse Lingard is in talks to join Brazilian club Corinthians on an initial 12-month deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ex-England international is a free agent after leaving South Korean club FC Seoul in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old has offers from clubs in Europe and the United States, but sources have told BBC Sport that talks with Corinthians are progressing positively. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lingard came through Manchester United&#8217;s academy, and went on to make 232 appearances for the club over an eight-year period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has 32 caps for England and was a key part of the side that reached the 2018 World Cup semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Corinthians, seven-time winners of the Brazilian league, are fourth in the table this season with seven points from four matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Manchester United midfielder Jesse Lingard is in talks to join Brazilian club Corinthians on an initial 12-month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-508427","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\/508427","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=508427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}