The Girls’s Tremendous League’s main scorer, Khadija Shaw, is near agreeing a brand new contract at Manchester Metropolis, regardless of curiosity from Chelsea, the Guardian understands.
Talks between Metropolis and the Jamaica striker are understood to have progressed positively in latest weeks and, though the wonderful particulars of an extension are being labored on and nothing has been signed, there may be confidence that she’s going to stick with the league leaders.
Shaw gained the WSL’s Golden Boot in 2023-24 and 2024-25 and is heading in the right direction to retain that honour. She has scored 15 instances in 16 league appearances this season and no different WSL participant has reached double figures. Her irrepressible type means there was loads of curiosity, and the Times reported on Wednesday that Chelsea have been eyeing up Shaw, however a number of sources have mentioned Shaw and Metropolis are progressing nicely in direction of a brand new deal.
Shaw joined Metropolis from Bordeaux in 2021 on a three-year deal that in 2023 was prolonged to 2026, and she or he is inside the ultimate 4 months of her contract.
Renewing the 29-year-old’s deal has been a excessive precedence for Metropolis. She has been their star participant once more this season and integral to their eight-point lead on the high of the desk. She might be among the many heavy favourites to be the WSL’s participant of the season.
Shaw has 77 WSL targets and can look so as to add to that at Aston Villa on Sunday, having scored three in 4 WSL video games earlier than the worldwide break.
In the meantime, Guro Reiten has left Chelsea after six trophy-laden years to signal for Gotham FC within the US. Reiten scored 59 targets in 207 appearances throughout all competitions with the Blues. The 31-year-old Norway worldwide joins Gotham on mortgage till the tip of her Chelsea contract in the summertime, and has signed a deal till 2029 for when the mortgage ends.
Reiten, who gained 13 trophies throughout her time on the membership from 2019, together with six Girls’s Tremendous League titles, 4 Girls’s FA Cups and three Girls’s League Cups, posted a tearful farewell to supporters on Chelsea’s web site.
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