DONE DEAL: Spurs Women sign Olga Ahtinen to new deal

Tottenham Hotspur Girls introduced that Olga Ahtinen has signed a brand new, long-term contract with the membership. The 28-year-old Finnish midfielder has been deployed all throughout the pitch and is a helpful squad participant.

Olga joined the membership in Fall 2023 from Linköping FC, the place she’d simply come off of a season the place she was named finest midfielder within the league. She shone for Spurs in her first half-season till a knee harm sidelined her for a couple of months. She hasn’t fairly reached these heights since she returned, however Olga remains to be a helpful squad participant. Underneath Robert Vilahamn, with whom she first signed, she was primarily deployed as eight. Martin Ho makes use of her far more liberally – on the wings, additionally as a quantity eight, and sometimes as a type of DM.

“Olga brings a powerful mentality daily, trains with goal, and has the technical high quality, work ethic and tactical understanding to continue to grow throughout the path we’re constructing,” supervisor Martin Ho mentioned, with regards to Olga’s new contract. “We consider there may be nonetheless extra to come back from her, and we’re excited to proceed supporting her improvement as an essential a part of our squad transferring ahead.”

Olga hasn’t performed many minutes these previous few seasons, which isn’t nice information for the sliver of hope I’m nonetheless holding that she regains sufficient health and confidence to be the participant we noticed when she first got here to Spurs. That mentioned, her versatility, consistency and her obvious constructive {and professional} angle make her a participant price retaining round.