Manchester United Trying To Sign England Midfielder Jess Park From Manchester City

Manchester United are exploring a move to motion nan England midfielder Jess Park from Manchester City earlier nan Women’s Super League transportation model shuts connected Thursday, nan Guardian tin reveal.

Park has been pinch City for 8 years. She made her debut arsenic a 16-year-old successful 2017, was portion of nan Lionesses squad that lifted nan Euro 2025 title successful Switzerland this summertime and has been a cardinal subordinate for her nine for respective seasons. Park was portion of nan broadside that won nan FA Cup successful 2020 and played successful 21 of her club’s 22 convention games past word arsenic they vanished third.

The 23-year-old has 20 England caps and has scored 3 world goals, including nan victor against nan world champions, Spain, successful a Nations League fixture astatine Wembley successful February.

The WSL transportation model closes astatine 11pm BST connected Thursday and a ample number of deals are being worked on, including respective high-profile and perchance big-money moves.

London City Lionesses are understood to beryllium adjacent to signing nan Spain younker world Lucía Corrales from Barcelona, aft gathering her merchandise clause of astir €500,000 (£435,000). If individual position are agreed, that would make her nan fourth-most costly signing successful WSL history truthful far, and a grounds waste for a Spanish player.

The 19-year-old, who spent past play connected indebtedness astatine Sevilla, scored nan winning extremity successful nan semi-final of nan 2022 Under-17 World Cup against Germany, pinch Spain going connected to triumph nan final. She was 1 of nan first female footballers to unrecorded astatine Barcelona’s La Masia training guidelines and nan Spanish nine released a connection connected Monday confirming that Corrales’s buyout clause had been met by an unnamed club.

Leicester City are hoping to motion nan Australia midfielder Emily van Egmond from Birmingham City. Leicester are managerless but aggregate sources person confirmed that nan erstwhile West Ham adjunct coach Rick Passmoor has taken interim charge.