{"id":374972,"date":"2026-01-17T09:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T09:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/374972\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T09:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T09:57:09","slug":"leicester-city-in-talks-with-como-to-sign-forward-alisha-lehmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/374972\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester City in talks with Como to sign forward Alisha Lehmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicester City have held talks with FC Como in an attempt to sign Switzerland forward Alisha Lehmann this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old joined Italian club Como &#8211; currently sixth in Serie A &#8211; on a three-year deal from Juventus in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is unclear whether Leicester hope to bring her in on loan or sign her on a permanent deal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lehmann has previously played for Women&#8217;s Super League clubs West Ham, Everton and Aston Villa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicester have been targeting players with WSL experience in the January transfer window, having already signed Ashleigh Neville from Tottenham, Rachel Williams from Manchester United and Sarah Mayling on loan from Aston Villa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lehmann has been capped 64 times for Switzerland and won the Serie A title with Juventus in 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During her time at West Ham, she was part of the squad that were runners-up in the 2018-19 Women&#8217;s FA Cup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is the most-followed female footballer in the world, exceeding 16 million followers on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also manages one of the 12 teams in the Baller League UK &#8211; a six-a-side football league with current and former professional players involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leicester City have held talks with FC Como in an attempt to sign Switzerland forward Alisha Lehmann this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-374972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}