West Ham have offered defender Anouk Denton for a membership report charge of £200,000 to American facet Bay FC.
The 22-year-old has been a key participant for the Hammers since signing completely from Arsenal in 2023, making 67 appearances.
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Denton turned the primary West Ham participant to signify the Lionesses since 1996 when she made her England debut in opposition to Ghana in December.
“Bay FC is an formidable membership with a transparent imaginative and prescient, and it felt like the best place for the subsequent step in my profession,” Denton stated.
“The NWSL is essentially the most aggressive league on the earth, and I am excited to problem myself in opposition to prime gamers and groups.”
Denton final performed for West Ham in December’s 5-1 defeat by Manchester Metropolis within the League Cup quarter-finals.
She leaves West Ham with the membership eleventh within the Girls’s Tremendous League, one level above Liverpool within the relegation play-off spot.
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Denton will reunite with former England Beneath-23s supervisor Emma Coates when she joins Bay FC.
“I am actually happy to welcome Anouk to Bay. She’s somebody I’ve labored with earlier than, so I do know precisely what she brings,” Coates stated.
“She brings helpful expertise on the prime degree from her time within the WSL, and what’s thrilling is that there is nonetheless room for her to develop.”
Based mostly within the San Francisco Bay Space, Bay FC completed thirteenth of 14 groups within the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League final season, registering simply 4 wins in 26 matches.
The 2026 NWSL season begins in March, with Bay FC kicking off their marketing campaign in opposition to Denver Summit.