“If she hadn’t shown up there, she wouldn’t have put the ball so centrally. It’s hard to explain, it’s just instinct. But I managed to hear it. We wanted to play as a striker, play nice passes. It was just instinct.” Just over a month ago, Keira Walsh was being voted best on the pitch in the European final that England won at home after her brilliant assist on Ella Toone’s goal. Just over a month later, Keira Walsh will become the most expensive player in women’s soccer history.
According to Sky Sports, after rejecting several approaches throughout the summer, Manchester City accepted Barcelona’s proposal and is available to let the English team out for an average of 400,000 euros. — a record amount that exceeds the 350,000 that Chelsea paid Wolfsburg for Pernille Harder in 2020, in what remains the biggest transfer in women’s football history. According to the news, Walsh is now free to discuss the contract with the Catalans and carry out the respective medical tests before being officially announced as a reinforcement for the European runner-up.
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The 25-year-old trained at Blackburn Rovers, making her professional debut for Manchester City and in 2014, the club she has represented for the past eight years. She was champion of England in 2016, she won three FA Cups, but the highlight of her career came this summer, when she won the European Championship at Wembley. having started every match in the tournament and one of the best players with Sarina Wiegman.
Now, Keira Walsh will be one of the most important pieces in a Barcelona chess team that continues to bet heavily on women’s football. The Catalans have been champions of Spain for the last three seasons and have been trying to combine domestic hegemony with continental success, being that they won the Champions League in 2020/21 and lost last season’s final against Lyon. In addition to Walsh, Barcelona also signed Lucy Bronze, an English international who was also at Manchester City, Geyse, a Brazilian international who has already played for Benfica, and the young Salma Paralluelo, an under-19 international with Spain who was at Villarreal .
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Source: Observadora
