{"id":5459,"date":"2026-01-09T07:10:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5459"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:10:47","slug":"manchester-city-finalising-deal-for-usa-midfielder-sam-coffey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5459","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City finalising deal for USA midfielder Sam Coffey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Manchester City are finalising a deal to bring in United States midfielder Sam Coffey from Portland Thorns.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City are preparing to pay a fee which is understood to be in the region of $800,000 (\u00a3600,000) for Coffey, whose Thorns contract runs through to the end of the 2027 National Women&#8217;s Soccer League (NWSL) season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old has been a City target for several months with the club making an approach for her in the summer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Terms have been agreed, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jan\/08\/sam-coffey-manchester-city-portland-thorns-transfer-talks-uswnt-midfielder\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">reports<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> suggest Coffey, widely regarded as one of the best defensive midfielders in the world, has been granted permission to fly to England to complete the move to the Women&#8217;s Super League leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coffey has made 42 appearances for the USA national team and almost 100 for Portland Thorns during a four-year spell at the club.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City are finalising a deal to bring in United States midfielder Sam Coffey from Portland Thorns. City are preparing to pay a fee which is understood to be in the region of $800,000 (\u00a3600,000) for Coffey, whose Thorns contract runs through to the end of the 2027 National Women&#8217;s Soccer League (NWSL) season. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}