{"id":706729,"date":"2026-05-31T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/706729\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T18:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:06:11","slug":"katie-mccabe-chelsea-set-to-sign-republic-of-ireland-captain-following-arsenal-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/706729\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie McCabe: Chelsea set to sign Republic of Ireland captain following Arsenal exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea are set to sign Republic of Ireland captain Katie McCabe following her exit from Arsenal.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old left Arsenal after her contract expired, having made 305 appearances during an 11-year spell.<\/p>\n

She was one of the club’s greatest players in the Women’s Super League era and helped them win the title in 2019.<\/p>\n

The versatile full-back, who can also play as a winger or a centre-back, was absent from Arsenal’s parade on Sunday to celebrate their Champions Cup win in February<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chelsea have had long-term interest in McCabe and held off competition from WSL champions Manchester City to secure her signature. <\/p>\n

An approach was made by Chelsea for McCabe in 2015<\/a> but she opted to join Arsenal. They reportedly attempted again in 2023 but their bid was rejected.<\/p>\n

She was offered a late contract renewal by Arsenal in April but decided to pursue other opportunities, with Chelsea and City having made their interest known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea are set to sign Republic of Ireland captain Katie McCabe following her exit from Arsenal. The 30-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-706729","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\/706729","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=706729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}