Everton have signed Holly McNamara on a free transfer after the Australia striker’s Melbourne City had expired.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old has won the Golden Boot in Australia’s A-League on two occasions.<\/p>\n
Everton say they beat “a wide range of top clubs across Europe and the United States” to sign McNamara.<\/p>\n
She becomes Everton’s fourth signing of the summer, following the arrivals of Noemie Mouchon, Hannah Cain and Zara Kramzar.<\/p>\n
“It is unreal to be here. Goodison Park is such a special stadium. I am very lucky to be here,” said McNamara. <\/p>\n
“Everton have such a rich history and that drew me to the club. It is a good club that has great ambitions and a great project for the next few years. <\/p>\n
“A big thing was also the chance to play in the best league in the world. It is so competitive and any team can beat anyone. <\/p>\n
“I can’t wait to try to do everything for this club [in order] to win and to do as well as we can.”<\/p>\n
McNamara was named the A-League’s young player of the year in 2022 and helped Australia reach the 2026 Women’s Asian Cup final.<\/p>\n
She will wear the number nine shirt for Everton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everton have signed Holly McNamara on a free transfer after the Australia striker’s Melbourne City had expired. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-703592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703592","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=703592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}