Manchester United have confirmed membership captain Katie Zelem will go away the membership this summer season upon the expiry of her contract.
The 28-year-old has been with the Crimson Devils since they reformed in 2018 and was made captain in simply her second season on the membership. A lifelong United fan, Zelem was a part of their Championship successful facet in 2019 to earn promotion to the WSL and later guided them to FA Cup glory final season to clinch the membership’s first piece of main silverware within the girls’s recreation.
Zelem amassed 161 appearances in whole for United throughout all competitions and scored 32 targets in that point. Silverware apart, she helped the workforce attain the UEFA Ladies’s Champions League for the primary time of their historical past and in addition to their highest ever WSL end in 2022/23 as they completed runners-up behind Chelsea.
The midfielder is a part of a big exodus of gamers this summer season, with the membership already confirming the departure of ahead Lucia Garcia. Goalkeeper Mary Earps can also be anticipated to depart upon the expiry of her contract, as per widespread reviews this week.
In line with The Instances, Zelem is leaning in the direction of a transfer overseas, however is but to rule out a transfer to a different WSL membership. Beforehand, the England worldwide represented Liverpool between 2013 and 2017.
In August 2017, she joined Juventus in for an undisclosed payment and spent only one season in Italy earlier than returning to England to hitch United’s reformed girls’s workforce. Born in Failsworth, a city in Larger Manchester, Zelem spent a lot of her youth at United’s centre of excellence, however with no skilled set-up on the membership on the time, she was compelled to maneuver elsewhere.
