WSL 2 side Newcastle United have signed Scotland forward Martha Thomas from Tottenham for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old scored 13 times in 66 games in three years at Spurs. <\/p>\n
Thomas spent the second half of last season on loan at Liverpool and has also played for Manchester United and West Ham in the Women’s Super League (WSL).<\/p>\n
BBC Sport understands she has signed a two-year deal with an option for a further 12 months at Newcastle.<\/p>\n
“I’m really excited – it’s a really big club to play for. “I want to compete [with] and play for the best teams,” Thomas said. <\/p>\n
“Team culture is really important to me and I think I bring some good attributes to help push standards.”<\/p>\n
Newcastle finished sixth in WSL 2 last season after failing to win any of their final six games.<\/p>\n
This summer leading scorer Emily Murphy has left for Brighton, but Newcastle have signed nine players.<\/p>\n
“Martha is a proven striker both in the WSL and internationally,” manager Tanya Oxtoby said.<\/p>\n
“She is a physical striker and adds outstanding work-rate to the squad. <\/p>\n
“She has shown that she has the ability to score all kinds of goals.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WSL 2 side Newcastle United have signed Scotland forward Martha Thomas from Tottenham for an undisclosed fee. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-717617","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\/717617","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=717617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}