Women's Team Thread 2023/2024

[Mr HJ]

Absolutely elated at this news. Really get the sense that the ship has been steadied at City the past 18 months and the atmosphere around the squad has massively improved. Think this really shows that we can convince genuinely world class players that we're going to be competing at the very top.

Nils Nielsen has made the difference - planning is everything.

Great news - good that they are keeping the young core together, for example I am glad that Mary Fowler has been given a role ahead of the more experienced Kelly - I think maybe Chloe will want more game time and be the one who leaves.

 

[Mike N]

Absolutely brilliant news about Hemp. There can’t be many better in the league than her. Big statement made to the rest of European football.

 

[Alex6691]

Confirmed Bunny will miss the final three games of the season. Big loss when we need to be bagging plenty of goals but believe the women will still get it done

 

[ninjamonkey]

Hemp hadn't supposedly all but signed for Barca a few weeks ago so this is huge for the women's team. Have to start keeping their best players. Whatever they've paid to keep her, probably means concessions elsewhere though. The wage cap compared to Europe hurts the league, especially when they aren't earning retirement money and will rightly want to maximise earnings.

 

[Alex6691]

Hemp hadn't supposedly all but signed for Barca a few weeks ago so this is huge for the women's team. Have to start keeping their best players. Whatever they've paid to keep her, probably means concessions elsewhere though. The wage cap compared to Europe hurts the league, especially when they aren't earning retirement money and will rightly want to maximise earnings.

It’s a soft salary cap and the rule is we can spend upto 40% of our yearly turnover but this includes the mens team so we’re not stuck for being able to pay big salaries

 

[Mon Autre]

Hemp hadn't supposedly all but signed for Barca a few weeks ago so this is huge for the women's team. Have to start keeping their best players. Whatever they've paid to keep her, probably means concessions elsewhere though. The wage cap compared to Europe hurts the league, especially when they aren't earning retirement money and will rightly want to maximise earnings.

The salary cap has next to no impact on how much we can spend on wages. The parent club can put as much money as they want into the women's team to raise the limit on the cap and it also doesn't count as spend in FFP terms

 

[cleavers]

Really get the sense that the ship has been steadied at City the past 18 months and the atmosphere around the squad has massively improved.

My feeling is that some of those that left us were the issue, and not so much GT. They've played some great football this season, and deserve to be top currently, and they would be clear, had there not been one very dodgy referee early on in the season.

This is great news, on a day when other confirmed news was less good.

 

[JRockBlues]

I suppose the good news of the day (Hempo!) outweighs the bad (Bunny). Great to have Lauren committing to the club for another 3 years. Not having a proper back-up for Shaw may have just cost us the title for this year but at least we have a game at the weekend that should provide the opportunity to test how alternatives work.

 

[citizen_maine]

I suppose the good news of the day (Hempo!) outweighs the bad (Bunny). Great to have Lauren committing to the club for another 3 years. Not having a proper back-up for Shaw may have just cost us the title for this year but at least we have a game at the weekend that should provide the opportunity to test how alternatives work.

Just play a false 9, rotating Hemp, Kelly and Fowler

 

[blue whippet]

Fantastic news about Hemp, she is an important player for us and it would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible, to replace her. To have both Hemp and Hasegawa extend shows faith in the team.