{"id":845959,"date":"2026-08-06T19:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845959\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T19:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:58:14","slug":"kerolin-failed-to-report-for-pre-season-at-manchester-city-before-barcelona-switch-manchester-city-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845959\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerolin failed to report for pre-season at Manchester City before Barcelona switch | Manchester City Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brazil forward Kerolin failed to report back for pre-season training at Manchester City in July before her transfer to Barcelona<\/a> had been agreed.<\/p>\n

Barcelona announced their signing of the 26-year-old on Tuesday but it was not until Thursday evening when Manchester City first made any reference to the transfer, eventually confirming they had received a WSL record fee for a sale more than 48 hours later.<\/p>\n

Several staff and players at Manchester City were disappointed at what were perceived to be efforts by Kerolin to force a transfer to Barcelona and that her time at the club ended on a surprisingly sour note. She did not join pre-season with the Women\u2019s Super League champions<\/a>, which began in late July, despite previously having been felt to have been on good terms with the squad.<\/p>\n

The deal, worth an initial \u20ac1.2m (\u00a31m), represents the largest transfer fee received by a WSL club, and it could rise with add-ons to approximately \u00a31.25m, although this has not been officially confirmed. It is one of the largest transfer fees in women\u2019s football.<\/p>\n

City said of Kerolin: \u201cShe grabbed 14 goals and six assists during that time, helping City to a WSL and FA Cup double in her solitary full season in England. And upon her transfer to Bar\u00e7a, City have received a WSL-club record transfer fee of \u20ac1.2m.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone at Manchester City would like to thank Kerolin for all her efforts at the club and wish her the very best in her future career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kerolin was part of the City side that lifted their first WSL title in a decade last season and also helped them win the Women\u2019s FA Cup<\/a>. But within weeks of those celebrations many of her City colleagues have been stunned after she did not say goodbye in-person. Kerolin\u2019s representatives have been contacted for a response.<\/p>\n

High-profile examples of such transfer standoffs have been seen in men\u2019s football, but incidents in the women\u2019s game have been comparatively rare.<\/p>\n

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City have no objections to the transfer in principle but sources have said the team were taken aback by the former North Carolina Courage star\u2019s absence from pre-season fitness testing. For Kerolin, it is a dream move to the European champions, who beat OL Lyonnes <\/a>in last season\u2019s Women\u2019s Champions League final.<\/p>\n

City and Barcelona will meet in a friendly at the Joie Stadium on 15 August as the reigning champions of England and Spain step up their pre-season preparations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brazil forward Kerolin failed to report back for pre-season training at Manchester City in July before her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-845959","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\/845959","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=845959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}