A very subjective look into AWFC

Since there are not a lot of news regarding Rubiales, other than I got to finally see Xavi give his opinions on the matter (they were fantastic), I will be finally be talking about the massive signings that are Amanda and Codina. And holy sh*t am I’m excited. I have been going on for months about the importance of depth in defense, specially in the CB position and now we have a solid of a partnership, at least on paper, that we can hope for without Leah Williamson.

My “Oh sh*t” moment was when it dawned on me that we would be without Leah for maybe a year and Rafa forever… I wasn’t too excited about the potential of LWB being our start CB, even with all her progress, her lack of experience is something that I don’t want in a CB, and it’s nothing personal. So I’m always going to prefer Jen and it’s fair to assume Jonas won’t start her often unless he absolutely has to, something that I disagree with but I’m also very subjective and I’ve Beattie, the hero, the goat.

Amanda was signed BEFORE the World Cup and Codina after. I was incredible to have seen Amanda flourish and be among the best players in the whole tournament, and I didn’t really know anything about her so every chance I got to see her play and kill it, I was super pleasantly surprised. And I was also surprised when I heard rumors about Codina signing and now that it’s finally official I can tell you that I don’t even know how in a blink of an eye (it was actually slow ass months but for the sake of this I’m implying it was “overnight) that “oh shit” went to a f*ck yes!

A World Cup star PLUS a World Cup winner!!!! Oh and by star I mean Steph, Caitlin, Katie, Lia, Noelle, Russo AND Laia. UNREAL!!! We are getting closer and closer to having a squad that I think can rival the best teams in the world. I think most of our players now can intimidate any team and I say we go for more… go for Earps, go for Beth England… go for Asllani.

Not sure I’m ready to leave my biased attachments behind but we need to be ruthless if we want to get to that super high level and that’s where Viv, Beth, Leah, Kim and company deserve.

This is all I got for now…let’s see what rumors start up next and hopefully I will hear news that Rubiales is fired or went to jail.

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