arrives with Champions League, World Cup and Nations League titles, however her function might reshape Arsenal’s defensive steadiness.
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Arsenal have signed from Barcelona, with the 27-year-old defender turning into one other vital addition to a squad .
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“I’m very completely satisfied and excited to get going,” mentioned Batlle.
“Arsenal is likely one of the greatest golf equipment on the planet, and I can’t wait to really feel the enjoyment of enjoying in entrance of our supporters at Emirates Stadium alongside so many nice gamers. I need to win trophies and I really feel that is the proper place to realize that.”
Batlle’s honours listing with Barcelona is excellent.
Over the previous three years, she has gained three Spanish league titles, three Spanish Cups, three Spanish Tremendous Cups and two UEFA Champions League titles.
With , she began each sport as they gained the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup in 2023, and in addition gained back-to-back UEFA Ladies’s Nations League titles in 2023/24 and 2024/25.
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In recognition of these achievements, Batlle was named in The Greatest FIFA Ladies’s 11 in 2024 and 2025, in addition to the FIFPRO Ladies’s World 11 in 2025.
Director of Ladies’s Soccer Clare Wheatley mentioned: “Ona’s monitor document at each membership and worldwide degree speaks for itself – she’s a confirmed winner with a starvation so as to add extra trophies. We’re delighted to convey probably the greatest defenders on the planet to Arsenal, and I do know our supporters will make her really feel welcome immediately.”
Head Coach Renée Slegers mentioned: “I’m delighted that we’ve been capable of convey Ona to the membership. She’s a vastly skilled full-back with robust attacking intent and nice bodily attributes. She’s a winner and we need to go for extra wins collectively.”
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The query now’s the place Batlle matches into the facet.
She is a world-class proper again, however Arsenal have already got one other elite choice in that place in , who might at some stage need to return to the NWSL.
There’s additionally , the younger worldwide, who arguably affords much more in an attacking sense, in addition to academy participant Sophie Harwood, who has not too long ago been supplied her first skilled contract.
4 proper backs could be loads for any squad, notably with solely as a pure left again. That factors in direction of one of many right-sided defenders transferring throughout, almost definitely both Fox or Batlle, whereas Harwood might exit on mortgage to realize first-team expertise.
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The best steadiness could also be Batlle and Holmberg competing on the proper, with Hinds and Fox competing on the left. There’s additionally the likelihood that Batlle has been signed because the alternative for at left again.
Batlle will put on the No 22 shirt.
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