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Manchester United Girls’s captain Katie Zelem is ready to depart the membership after the expiration of her contract this summer time.
It continues the pattern of what has been a troublesome week for the ladies’s group as information broke yesterday that Mary Earps had rejected a brand new deal and he or she is reportedly on her solution to Paris Saint-Germain.
Including to the issues, United have misplaced much more expertise as Spanish ahead Lucia Garcia has additionally left the FA Cup winners.
The official Manchester United Girls’s X account introduced the unhappy information that Zelem wouldn’t be remaining on the membership.
From our inception, to our first main trophy and all the pieces in-between.
She’s been with us by means of all of it.
In the present day we bid farewell to a legend.@KatieZelem, she’s one in all our personal ❤️#MUWomen
— Manchester United Girls (@ManUtdWomen) June 27, 2024
The 28 yr previous started her profession at Manchester United’s academy on the age of eight however needed to depart in 2013 because the group had no senior facet for her to maneuver as much as.
She would go on to play with Liverpool and Juventus, earlier than re-joining United after they lastly arrange a senior facet once more in 2018.
Zelem captained the facet to promotion to the Girls’s Tremendous League in her debut marketing campaign and has been an instrumental a part of the facet ever since.
Different strings to her bow are being a serious a part of the group that completed second within the 2022-23 season and turning into the primary lady to carry a serious trophy for Manchester United after they received the FA Cup final month at Wembley, after a complete 4-0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur.
Zelem leaves United having performed 161 instances for the Purple Devils in six years, scoring 32 objectives from midfield.
The departure of the captain will depart a gaping gap within the Girls’s facet and supply one other headache for Marc Skinner to take care of as he goals to steer his group to Champions League qualification subsequent yr.
New house owners INEOS have already confronted substantial criticism over their angle to the ladies’s group as Sir Jim Ratcliffe claimed in an interview that they haven’t gone into a lot element over what funding within the group shall be like, as they’re specializing in the boys’s facet as of now.
As well as, the embarrassing information that the male group can have precedence entry to new Carrington sports activities amenities will do little to encourage confidence in what INEOS plan to do to enhance the ladies’s group.
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