{"id":518238,"date":"2026-06-25T19:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/518238\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T19:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:32:08","slug":"alexia-putellas-spain-midfielder-opts-to-join-london-city-lionesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/518238\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexia Putellas: Spain midfielder opts to join London City Lionesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two-time Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas has opted to join Women’s Super League club London City Lionesses.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old left Barcelona after 14 years in May<\/a> and is widely regarded as one of women’s football’s greatest players.<\/p>\n

Sources close to Putellas have told BBC Sport she has chosen the South London club over Boston Legacy in the United States – the final two among many vying for her signature.<\/p>\n

Although the Lionesses are confident of completing the deal, club sources say there is no final agreement yet.<\/p>\n

It is a remarkable scoop as London City Lionesses – an independent women’s football club – continue to raise eyebrows in the transfer market.<\/p>\n

They finished sixth in their debut season in the top-flight last year, while Putellas led Barcelona to a fourth Champions League title.<\/a><\/p>\n

Almost every club in world football, who possess the financial capability to sign Putellas, were interested but London City Lionesses have won the battle.<\/p>\n

Putellas won a total of 38 trophies during her time with Barcelona, including 10 league titles.<\/p>\n

The Spain midfielder scored a club record 232 goals in 507 appearances, and is second on the all-time appearance list – just nine behind Melanie Serrano on 516.<\/p>\n

She won the World Cup with Spain in 2023 and was part of the squad that finished runners-up to England at Euro 2025.<\/p>\n

Putellas was ruled out of Euro 2022 on the eve of the tournament with an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury and returned at the end of the following season.<\/p>\n

Since her return to full fitness, Putellas has shown the types of performances that earned her back-to-back Ballon d’Or accolades in 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n

Sources indicate London City Lionesses have been pursuing Putellas since January and there was always confidence they could strike a deal to sign her.<\/p>\n

She will join on a free having allowed her Barcelona contract to run out, though London City Lionesses are believed to have offered her substantial wages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas has opted to join Women’s Super League club London City Lionesses. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-518238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518238","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=518238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}