Chelsea are signing the USA defender for a world-record $1.1m but the big gap to the rest of the pyramid is unhealthy<\/p>\n
When Chelsea broke the British transfer record to sign the Colombia striker Mayra Ram\u00edrez for \u20ac450,000 (\u00a3380,000) last January, the thought of that fee more than doubling in the space of a year might have sounded like a fanciful rate of inflation to some. But to those involved in the fast-evolving world of women\u2019s football transfer fees, this week\u2019s smashing of the $1m (\u00a3810,000) barrier has been on the cards for a while.<\/p>\n
With Chelsea understood to have agreed personal terms with the highly acclaimed United States defender Naomi Girma for her world-record-breaking $1.1m transfer<\/a> from San Diego Wave, the prospect of the first \u00a31m move is surely now a mere inevitability, and the rise in prices certainly will not stop there. Indeed, it could already have been comfortably smashed for a winger or a No 9. Girma is arguably the best defender in the world \u2013 Emma Hayes labelled her the best defender she had \u201cever seen\u201d \u2013 but she is, nonetheless, a defender. If a centre-back can attract a seven-figure transfer fee, what would the WSL\u2019s top goalscorer Khadija Shaw be worth, or the Ballon d\u2019Or winner Aitana Bonmat\u00ed?<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea are signing the USA defender for a world-record $1.1m but the big gap to the rest of the pyramid is unhealthy When Chelsea broke the British transfer record to sign the Colombia striker Mayra Ram\u00edrez for \u20ac450,000 (\u00a3380,000) last January, the thought of that fee more than doubling in the space of a year … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}