{"id":756894,"date":"2026-09-01T18:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/756894\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T18:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:06:14","slug":"luca-bombino-stoke-city-sign-us-left-back-on-four-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/756894\/","title":{"rendered":"Luca Bombino: Stoke City sign US left-back on four-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stoke City have made their first deadline-day signing by bringing in American left-back Luca Bombino for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 20-year-old has joined the Championship strugglers on a four-deal from MLS side San Diego.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Luca is one of the brightest young talents in the MLS,&#8221; said Potters sporting director Jonathan Walters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With his significant potential, we believe he will continue to grow here at Stoke City. To move halfway across the world at a young age speaks to his character, desire and ambition to take his career to the highest level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Potters sit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/stoke-city\/table\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bottom of the early Championship table<\/a>, having lost their first three games, going into Tuesday&#8217;s home game with Norwich City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stoke City have made their first deadline-day signing by bringing in American left-back Luca Bombino for an undisclosed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-756894","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\/756894","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=756894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}