Chelsea Women complete signing of Alyssa Thompson from Angel City for £1.1m fee | Transfer window

Chelsea have signed the USA winger Alyssa Thompson from Angel Metropolis for an upfront payment understood to be simply shy of $1.5m (£1.1m), which sources say might climb near a world-record sum with potential add-ons, on a dramatic switch deadline day within the Girls’s Tremendous League.

Thompson is known to have put pen to paper on a five-year contract with simply over an hour to spare earlier than the window shut at 11pm. The 20-year-old accomplished a medical earlier on Thursday in London, after boarding a flight from Los Angeles late on Wednesday night time, amid in depth negotiations between the 2 golf equipment.

The present world report switch payment for a girls’s footballer stands on the $1.5m that was paid by Orlando Satisfaction final month to signal Lizbeth Ovalle from the Mexican aspect Tigres, which eclipsed the £1m transfer by Arsenal to signal Olivia Smith from Liverpool in July. It’s understood Chelsea’s transfer for Thompson wouldn’t be a world-record payment upfront however might rise to be so with add-ons.

It got here on the finish of a busy day within the WSL window, with the promoted aspect London Metropolis Lionesses confirming the signing of the Barcelona teenager Lucía Corrales. They’re understood to have met the discharge clause for the Spain youth worldwide within the area of €500,000 (£435,000). However their try to signal the France midfielder Grace Geyoro from Paris Saint-Germain is known to have gone right down to the wire and by the deadline it was not clear whether or not any settlement was reached.

Elsewhere, Grace Clinton accomplished her transfer to Manchester Metropolis on a four-year deal, whereas her England teammate Jess Park moved within the different route, to Manchester United, additionally on a four-year deal.

Clinton, saying goodbye to United’s followers in a press release on her Instagram account, stated: “This has been a really tough choice for me due to the love I’ve for my teammates and for you, the followers. Nonetheless, I really feel the way forward for the membership and I aren’t on the identical web page. For me personally, the following step is about development. I wish to proceed to develop and be taught.”

Liverpool had a productive deadline day, including midfielder Emilia Szymczak on a season-long mortgage from Barcelona, signing the striker Beata Olsson from Kristianstads DFF for an undisclosed payment and securing a everlasting deal for full-back Alejandra Bernabé from Chelsea, who returns after an preliminary mortgage spell final time period. The Merseyside membership additionally added the right-back Risa Shimizu on a season-long mortgage from Manchester Metropolis.

Tottenham have signed the Norway ahead Cathinka Tandberg from Hammarby for an undisclosed payment, whereas Leicester have made a flurry of late additions, together with signing the Australia midfielder Emily van Egmond from Birmingham on a two-year deal.