10 women’s transfers that stood out while the men’s World Cup dominated

While attention was fixed on the men’s World Cup, several major women’s football moves reshaped clubs across Europe and the US, including high-profile switches involving Kerr, Putellas and Earps. The men’s World Cup may have dominated the football conversation, but it did not stop the women’s transfer market from delivering a string of significant moves. As The Guardian Football reports, June and July brought a cluster of high-profile deals that shifted the balance of power across club football, even if many of them were easy to overlook amid the tournament in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Some of the biggest names were impossible to ignore. Sam Kerr’s departure from Chelsea to return to Gotham FC was one of the most eye-catching moves of the period, while Alexia Putellas’s switch from Barcelona to London City was the kind of headline transfer that changes expectations around a club immediately. Beth Mead also moved from Arsenal to Manchester City, adding another major England international to a rival Women’s Super League side. There were other notable returns to the WSL as well. Mary Earps and Georgia Stanway were among the players mentioned in the roundup, with Earps heading to London City Lionesses and Stanway back at Arsenal, according to the Guardian’s transfer list.

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