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Sam Kerr will time off Chelsea this summertime erstwhile her statement expires, nan nine person announced, ending her six-and-a-half-year spell pinch nan English side.
The Australia striker is Chelsea’s starring goalscorer successful nan Women’s Super League pinch 64 goals and has scored 115 times for nan Londoners successful each competitions, during an era of singular occurrence for some her and nan club.
The 32-year-old has won 5 WSL titles, 3 FA Cups and 3 League Cups during her clip pinch Chelsea are only a lengthy knee wounded prevented her from adding to that tally. She has won nan WSL’s Golden Boot doubly and she was named arsenic nan Football Writers’ Association’s women’s footballer of nan twelvemonth doubly successful succession successful 2022 and 2023, during a spell wherever she was wide considered arsenic 1 of nan champion players successful nan world. She was besides nan Ballon d’Or runner-up successful 2023.
“When I bespeak connected my Chelsea career, I conscionable consciousness happy,” Kerr told nan club’s media channels. “Happy that it happened, and I consciousness truthful grateful to person played for this nine for six years and won arsenic galore trophies arsenic we could.”
Kerr’s 177 appearances for Chelsea makes her nan fourth-highest subordinate connected their all-time quality list. She will spell into Saturday’s last convention lucifer of nan season, astatine location to Manchester United astatine Stamford Bridge, conscionable 1 extremity down Fran Kirby’s all-time Chelsea Women goals grounds successful each competitions.
A nine connection from Chelsea said they “thank Sam for her unthinkable publication to our occurrence connected nan transportation and sustained maturation disconnected it,” earlier adding: “We wish her each nan champion successful nan adjacent section of her career.”
The news comes whilst Chelsea are understood to beryllium nan favourites to unafraid nan signature of nan Manchester City striker Khadija Shaw, this season’s WSL apical scorer, whom nan Guardian revealed earlier successful May has decided to time off City astatine nan extremity of her statement this summer. Chelsea person reportedly offered nan Jamaica striker a £1m-per-year contract.
