{"id":384059,"date":"2026-01-02T19:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/384059\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:18:07","slug":"wellesley-smith-and-williams-return-from-loan-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/384059\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellesley-Smith and Williams return from loan | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cecily Wellesley-Smith and Naomi Williams have been recalled after spending the first half of this season out on loan.<\/p>\n<p>Cecily joined Leicester City on loan in September 2025 after signing a first professional contract with us early that summer. The 18-year-old centre-back made one appearance with the Women\u2019s Super League club.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Naomi has spent the first half of this campaign with WSL 2 club Bristol City, making three appearances, all in the Subway Women\u2019s League Cup.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arsenal.com\/news\/laila-harbert-portland-thorns-drive-and-family?utm_source=arsenaldotcom&amp;utm_medium=embedded-article&amp;utm_campaign=news\" class=\"article-card__wrapper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\n         Read more                              Laila Harbert on Portland Thorns, drive and family <\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cecily Wellesley-Smith and Naomi Williams have been recalled after spending the first half of this season out on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-384059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}