Manchester Metropolis have secured the signing of Dutch worldwide Kerstin Casparij from FC Twente – and the right-back isn’t fazed by the prospect of turning into Lucy Bronze’s alternative on the membership.
Casparij has signed a three-year contract with Gareth Taylor’s squad and has been given the No 2 shirt not too long ago vacated by England worldwide Bronze – who left for Barcelona on the finish of her contract this summer time.
Metropolis’s new signing was a part of the Netherlands squad that bought to the quarter-finals of the Ladies’s European Championship and can be a part of up along with her new membership for pre-season coaching subsequent week – and she or he revealed her pleasure to Sky Sports activities Information about shifting to Manchester.
“Gareth and I have been on the identical web page of our model of play and what that will imply for me for granted again,” she stated. “Enjoying the Manchester Metropolis manner subsequent yr simply will get me very, very blissful.
“I bought a really feel for the membership after I was there for the medical. It appears like dwelling and persons are genuinely good. I can not wait to name it dwelling for the following couple of years.”
Casparij’s right-back predecessor Bronze spent the final two years again in Manchester, turning into the primary defender and English participant to win the 2020 FIFA’s Finest Ladies’s Participant of the Yr award whereas contracted to the Ladies’s Tremendous League membership.
However the 21-year-old isn’t feeling any stress about dwelling as much as the expectations left behind by Bronze.
“It is an honour that they need to signal me to take over from Lucy and she or he’s an unbelievable participant,” the Dutch worldwide added. “She’s an unbelievable particular person as properly and a Manchester Metropolis legend.
“It is fairly large sneakers to fill however I do not really feel the stress. I really feel the boldness they’ve in me and I will be doing her justice.”
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Manchester Metropolis have secured the signing of Dutch worldwide Kerstin Casparij from FC Twente – and the right-back isn’t fazed by the prospect of turning into Lucy Bronze’s alternative on the membership.
Casparij has signed a three-year contract with Gareth Taylor’s squad and has been given the No 2 shirt not too long ago vacated by England worldwide Bronze – who left for Barcelona on the finish of her contract this summer time.
Metropolis’s new signing was a part of the Netherlands squad that bought to the quarter-finals of the Ladies’s European Championship and can be a part of up along with her new membership for pre-season coaching subsequent week – and she or he revealed her pleasure to Sky Sports activities Information about shifting to Manchester.
“Gareth and I have been on the identical web page of our model of play and what that will imply for me for granted again,” she stated. “Enjoying the Manchester Metropolis manner subsequent yr simply will get me very, very blissful.
“I bought a really feel for the membership after I was there for the medical. It appears like dwelling and persons are genuinely good. I can not wait to name it dwelling for the following couple of years.”
Casparij’s right-back predecessor Bronze spent the final two years again in Manchester, turning into the primary defender and English participant to win the 2020 FIFA’s Finest Ladies’s Participant of the Yr award whereas contracted to the Ladies’s Tremendous League membership.
However the 21-year-old isn’t feeling any stress about dwelling as much as the expectations left behind by Bronze.
“It is an honour that they need to signal me to take over from Lucy and she or he’s an unbelievable participant,” the Dutch worldwide added. “She’s an unbelievable particular person as properly and a Manchester Metropolis legend.
“It is fairly large sneakers to fill however I do not really feel the stress. I really feel the boldness they’ve in me and I will be doing her justice.”
Observe the summer time switch window with Sky Sports activities
Who can be on the transfer this summer time when the switch window opens on June 10 and closes at 11pm on September 1?
Sustain-to-date with all the newest switch information and rumours in our devoted Switch Centre weblog on Sky Sports activities’ digital platforms. It’s also possible to meet up with the ins, outs and evaluation on Sky Sports activities Information.