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Matildas skipper Sam Kerr will reportedly time off Chelsea astatine nan extremity of nan Women’s Super League play to return to nan United States and subordinate description nine Denver Summit.
Kerr’s early astatine Chelsea has travel into uncertainty successful caller weeks pinch nan striker’s statement group to expire astatine nan extremity of nan play and pinch small talk of a caller deal.
Network 10 successful Australia reported that Kerr has signed pinch nan caller Colorado-based nine aft six seasons pinch Chelsea, wherever nan 32-year-old has won nan Women’s Super League title 5 times arsenic good arsenic 3 FA Cups.
Kerr’s signing would beryllium a immense coup for nan eager caller nine that only played its first lucifer past month, arsenic good arsenic nan US National Women’s Soccer League wherever nan Australian remains nan all-time starring goalscorer.
But Kerr was speedy to refute nan study successful a station connected Snapchat saying: “Don’t judge everything you publication successful nan media man, they cognize a determination earlier me.”
Chelsea past retweeted her consequence done its charismatic X channel.
Kerr’s early has been up successful nan aerial astatine Chelsea arsenic she has played a reduced domiciled nether coach Sonia Bompastor since her return from a long absence owed to an ACL injury.
The guardant has made her measurement backmost to afloat fittingness slow this season, pinch galore cameos disconnected nan bench, but showed signs of being backmost to her champion while leading Australia to nan last of nan Women’s Asian Cup wherever nan tourney hosts mislaid to Japan.
Kerr has scored 110 goals successful 153 matches for Chelsea since joining nan nine successful 2019.
Chelsea’s quarter-finals exit from nan Champions League connected Wednesday night, astatine nan hands of section rivals Arsenal, now looks for illustration being Kerr’s past chance astatine winning women’s football’s biggest nine prize.
A move to nan US would people a triumphant return for nan striker who first announced herself arsenic an world unit during stints pinch NWSL clubs Western New York Flash, Sky Blue FC and Chicago Red Stars earlier her move to England.
Kerr has an American wife, former US world Kristie Mewis, and her signing would beryllium a boon for Denver Summit, which person US skis prima Mikaela Shiffrin and NFL awesome Peyton Manning among their owners.
The description club’s imaginable was outlined spectacularly astatine Mile High Stadium connected Saturday erstwhile their 0-0 tie against Washington Spirit was watched by 63,004 fans, much than 20,000 supra nan erstwhile NWSL attendance record.
Amid nan speculation, Kerr will skipper nan Matildas successful a brace of world friendlies successful Kenya later this month, aft being named by coach Joe Montemurro successful a adjacent full-strength 22-player squad.
