{"id":585041,"date":"2021-02-26T06:02:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T11:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=585041"},"modified":"2021-02-26T06:02:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T11:02:36","slug":"mary-earps-signs-new-manchester-united-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/02\/26\/mary-earps-signs-new-manchester-united-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Earps Signs New Manchester United Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/ca2eabf4\/Mary-Earps?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mary Earps<\/a> has signed a new <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/19\/wonderkid-joao-pedro-verbally-commits-future-to-watford\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> contract that commits her to the club until June 2023, with an option of a further year.<\/p>\n<h2>Mary Earps Agrees New Manchester United Contract<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MUWomen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MUWomen<\/a> adventure continues for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1maryearps?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@1MaryEarps<\/a>! \ud83d\ude0d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manchester United Women (@ManUtdWomen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManUtdWomen\/status\/1365240687889969155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nEarps arrived at United in July 2019 and has made 35 appearances in all competitions to date for <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/5f2d47ff\/Casey-Stoney?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Casey Stoney<\/a>\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<h3>Earps \u2018Delighted to Extend\u2019 Her Stay<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manutd.com\/en\/news\/detail\/mary-earps-signs-new-man-utd-women-contract\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Earps told manutd.com:<\/a> \u201cI\u2019m delighted to extend my stay here; we\u2019ve grown so much as a team in the last couple of years and that\u2019s something I\u2019m really looking forward to continuing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I always want to be in an environment that will challenge me, I have a hunger to learn and improve, and the staff here are brilliant in giving me the best opportunity to do that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis team is capable of big things; I want to be playing Champions League football and to be competing for trophies and I know that ambition is shared across the squad. There is nowhere else I would want to be playing my football.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Casey Stoney Hails a \u2018Fantastic\u2019 Player<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manutd.com\/en\/news\/detail\/mary-earps-signs-new-man-utd-women-contract\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Head coach Casey Stoney added:<\/a> \u201cI\u2019m pleased that Mary has committed her future to the club; she has been a fantastic player for us over the last couple of seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe experience she has brought to the team has been key, but she is also someone that will always ask questions and strives to improve every day, and that mindset is great to see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that Mary will continue to be an important part of the squad over the coming years, and I look forward to continuing our work with her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Man United, Earps played for Wolfsburg and won a league and cup double during her time in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>She has also played for the likes of Reading and Birmingham City during her career and is a senior England international.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Earps, <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/1e4d1c4c\/Hayley-Ladd?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hayley Ladd<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/c3d37cec\/Leah-Galton?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leah Galton<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/2457a6c7\/Kirsty-Hanson?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kirsty Hanson<\/a> have also <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/02\/24\/hayley-ladd-signs-new-manchester-united-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">signed new deals at United during February.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"AV-lYWoXQlZJSINFxppX3g\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1299624905\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'AV-lYWoXQlZJSINFxppX3g',sig:'jpgRXcyTsXGymz3ilVjeTeAUqzThvxxt0Lv3DdXoVuc=',w:'594px',h:'405px',items:'1299624905',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Earps has signed a new Manchester United contract that commits her to the club until June 2023, with an option of a further year. Mary Earps Agrees New Manchester United Contract The #MUWomen adventure continues for @1MaryEarps! \ud83d\ude0d \u2014 Manchester United Women (@ManUtdWomen) February 26, 2021 Earps arrived at United in July 2019 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3766,"featured_media":585046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7008,18,7007],"tags":[2078,8380],"class_list":["post-585041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-womens-super-league","category-manchester-united","category-womens-football","tag-casey-stoney","tag-mary-earps"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3766"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}