🎥 Was Chelsea’s timing on record-breaking signing a strategic energy play?

It is official.

Desk-topping WSL facet Chelsea have captured the signing of USWNT defender Naomi Girma from San Diego Wave within the NWSL.

It wasn’t a very well-kept secret, however the membership waited to tug the set off on the announcement till 10 minutes earlier than kick-off once they confronted Arsenal within the WSL.

Girma has develop into the primary ever girls’s footballer to be offered for over the $1m mark, and added to a Chelsea facet which might be already dominating within the WSL is a big assertion of intent from the Blues.

Was the timing of the announcement proper earlier than kick-off a strategic energy play?

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