Chelsea academy defender pens first skilled contract with membership

Chelsea have signed academy defender Greta Humphries to her first skilled contract.

It sees the 18-year-old stay on the Barclays Girls’s Tremendous League membership till the summer time of 2025, with the choice to increase by an additional 12 months. Humphries beforehand represented Tottenham Hotspur and have become a Blue in 2022. She has been a part of the ladies’s academy for the previous two seasons and added an Academy League Cup victory to her expertise through the 2022/23 marketing campaign.

Talking about such a milestone in her early profession, Humphries mentioned: “It is a very proud and thrilling second for me and my household. It’s my dream come true to signal knowledgeable contract at this membership. 

“It is the membership my household and I’ve supported our whole lives. I’m so grateful to be given a chance right here and I can’t wait to get began.”

Chelsea are getting into a brand new period subsequent season, with newly appointed head coach Sonia Bompastor, following Emma Hayes’ 12-year stint. It is clear that the brand new coach is trying to onboard some youth into her crew as she takes the reins, after asserting the arrival of 20-year-old midfielder Julia Bartel from Barcelona, and 24-year-old ahead Sandy Baltimore from Paris-Saint Germain. 

As well as, it’s evident that Bompastor believes mixing youth with expertise is the important thing to success, after sources instructed 90min that she is the driving drive behind the anticipated upcoming transfer of Lucy Bronze to the membership from Barcelona.

Chelsea have made strengthening their attacking line a precedence to this point throughout this summer time switch window, however Humphries’ transfer to skilled standing sees them additionally bolster their backline. The Blues have already tied fellow defensive prospect Cerys Brown to a contract extension, with home-grown full-back Jorja Fox coming off the again of an ACL damage suffered in Might 2023.

The membership topped the WSL desk final season, beating Manchester Metropolis on aim distinction. Regardless of most predicting Hayes to win the treble in her ultimate season on the helm, they missed out on the Champions League, and FA Cup, one thing Bompastor will little doubt have her sights set on. 

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