It has been a busy week of switch information for girls’s soccer.
We have lastly came upon who’s going to take over as Lyon’s head coach after Sonia Bompastor moved to Chelsea, and Leicester Metropolis revealed what the way forward for a handful of their gamers seems like.
90min is right here to get you updated with all of the movers and shakers.
Australian coach Joe Montemurro has been appointed as the brand new head coach of Lyon for the following two years.
The 54-year-old will succeed Sonia Bompastor, who confirmed her transfer to Chelsea final month.
Montemurro led the Gunners from 2017 to 2021, serving to them to develop into champions of the Ladies’s Tremendous League and Ladies’s League Cup.
He’s spent the final three seasons nevertheless, in Turin managing Juventus, sweeping up 5 trophies with the Serie A Femminile facet.
“I’m extraordinarily honoured to be a part of such an distinctive organisation as Olympique Lyonaaid, the world chief in girls’s soccer,” he mentioned.
“After I consider Lyon, I consider high-level professionalism and excellence. Taking part in in opposition to this staff has all the time represented the top of soccer for me. It has all the time introduced me pleasure and inspiration.”
West Ham United have revealed that ahead Viviane Asseyi has put pen to paper on a brand new cope with the membership.
The 30-year-old has scored seven targets in 26 appearances throughout all competitions, throughout her time in east London.
Asseyi was awarded the 2023/24 purpose of the season after Hammers followers voted for her strike in opposition to Chelsea in January as their favorite purpose.
The France worldwide has been essential since her arrival from Bayern Munich in the summertime of 2022.
Leicester Metropolis Soccer Membership have revealed the departures of six gamers, alongside two new contract extensions.
Aimee Palmer, Hire Siemsen, Josie Inexperienced, Demi Lambourne, Monique Robinson and Aileen Whelan have now left the membership, following the conclusion of Metropolis’s third season within the WSL.
Palmer joined from Bristol Metropolis throughout the summer time of 2023 and is leaving after one season, whereas Australia worldwide Siemsen is shifting on after two seasons.
Defender Inexperienced can be exiting the membership after two seasons. Lengthy-serving goalkeeper Lambourne spent the final season on mortgage with Crystal Palace.
Academy graduate Robinson leaves having most lately spent the second half of the 2023.24 season on mortgage with Burnley within the FA Ladies’s Nationwide League North. Whelan alternatively, shall be retiring from skilled soccer.
On the identical day, Metropolis introduced two new contract offers.
Defender Sophie Howard has signed a brand new contract, holding her on the membership till no less than the top of the 2024/25 season. The 30-year-old has made greater than 100 appearances for LCFC, serving to the Foxes to promotion to the WSL in 2021.
Defender Janice Cayman has additionally agreed to a one-year extension. She was one of many staff’s standout performers in her debut season, and has performed on the King Energy Stadium 28 occasions in all competitions.
The previous England worldwide has confirmed her departure from Everton on the finish of this month when her contract expires.
The ahead will depart after her second spell on the membership – having began her profession with the Blues earlier than rejoining in July 2021.
Duggan, who has earned 79 England caps thus far and in addition performed for Manchester Metropolis, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, first broke into Everton’s senior staff at 16 years previous.
She was named FA Ladies’s Younger Participant of the 12 months in 2009 and, the next 12 months, was a part of the Everton squad that lifted the FA Ladies’s Cup.
The Northern Eire worldwide will go away Aston Villa when her present deal expires on the finish of the month.
The ahead joined Villa from Everton in the summertime of 2022 however was out of motion quickly after because of an anterior cruciate ligament harm.
Magill made her return in Might 2023 and went on to make 21 appearances for the membership.
