Chelsea ahead seals short-term mortgage exit

Chelsea have revealed that ahead Aimee Claypole has joined Swedish aspect Linkoping on a short-term mortgage till December. 

The 18-year-old will be part of up with Linkoping till late this 12 months, with the Damallsvenskan having been in season since April. The aspect presently sits seventh within the league after enjoying 15 video games. 

This isn’t Claypole’s first mortgage transfer as she spent the second half of final season on mortgage within the Girls’s Championship with Lewes, that includes 11 occasions, scoring twice and offering three assists.

Earlier than spending time away, Claypole made her debut for the Blues in January of the 2021/22 season as a second-half substitute in an FA Cup tie towards Aston Villa. She made her first outing within the WSL in March 2023, coming off the bench and serving to the group safe a win over Brighton & Hove Albion, earlier than a 3rd senior look towards Studying. 

Claypole has been with the membership because the age of 9 and signed her first skilled contract with Chelsea after turning 18 in November 2023. Throughout her time within the academy programme, Claypole gained the FA WSL Academy Cup and the FA Youth Cup, and was high scorer within the Girls’s Tremendous League Academy for the 2022/23 marketing campaign. 

Claypole joins three different younger Chelsea gamers on mortgage for the upcoming season: Jorja Fox, Greta Humphires and Ashanti Akpan. 

Earlier this month it was confirmed that Humphries will spend the 2024/25 season on mortgage at Bristol. The 19-year-old signed her first skilled contract with the Blues earlier this summer season.

Proper-back Fox additionally penned a brand new take care of Chelsea, conserving her there till June 2027, however will spend everything of the 2024/25 marketing campaign on mortgage at newly promoted WSL aspect Crystal Palace.

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