A Sensational Summer… Of Jaw-Dropping Transfers!

A short scene-setter for the most extraordinary transfer window the FA Women’s Super League had seen. The magazine is careful not to take a side on whether the volume of overseas arrivals is a problem for the England team, noting only that some worry it reduces opportunities for English players, and points to the homegrown quota agreed for 2021-22 and to the freedom-of-movement questions Brexit will raise. What it does insist on is the scale of the thing: an unexpected side-effect of the pandemic was a flow of international stars out of the NWSL and into England, alongside returning Lionesses and both established and younger British talent. Clubs across the league, and to an extent the Championship too, had bought or traded top players. The page ends by asking readers which signing excites them most.