{"id":648591,"date":"2026-05-17T13:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/648591\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:08:09","slug":"mary-earps-close-to-wsl-return-as-paris-st-germain-exit-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/648591\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Earps close to WSL return as Paris St-Germain exit nears"},"content":{"rendered":"

London City Lionesses are an ambitious club under owner Michele Kang and had a steady debut campaign in the WSL, finishing sixth after eight wins from 22 matches.<\/p>\n

Sources at the club say an agreement with Earps has not yet been made, but they remain optimistic about their summer business.<\/p>\n

Eder Maestre’s side have been linked with several players including Barcelona defender Mapi Leon and England winger Beth Mead, who announced her departure from Arsenal<\/a> this week amid additional interest from Manchester City.<\/p>\n

Earps is one of a number of big-name players potentially available on a free deal this summer, with Arsenal’s Mead and Katie McCabe leaving, Barcelona’s Alexia Putellas yet to sign a new contract, Sam Kerr departing Chelsea and Manchester City top scorer Khadija Shaw rejecting contract renewal proposals.<\/p>\n

During her time in England, Earps became one of the country’s most recognised and influential players, though her book – released in November – caused controversy<\/a> and dominated headlines in the media for several weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London City Lionesses are an ambitious club under owner Michele Kang and had a steady debut campaign in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-648591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648591","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=648591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}