{"id":476387,"date":"2026-05-31T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/476387\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:28:08","slug":"katie-mccabe-chelsea-set-to-sign-republic-of-ireland-captain-following-arsenal-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/476387\/","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":476388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-476387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}