A very subjective look into AWFC

One thing I learned really quickly when I became a women’s football fan, espclifically a WSL fan, is that the transfer market can be absolutely brutal, they can make zero sense at all, and it challenges us in terms of supporting a player, team loyalties and more.

If you are anything like me, you spend an embarrassingly large amount of time thinking about potential transfers this season. I have no shame in admitting that it’s constantly on my mind and it sometimes feels very strangle because it implies that, by wanting players to come to the club, others will have to leave.

So more than talking about the inevitability of players coming in and others leaving, I just wanted to point out this particular dynamic that I go through which I assume some of you go through as well and how I deal with it because even though I don’t think I’ve figured it out, I believe that maybe talking about it or in your case reading about it, might help put things in perspective.

From time to time I compare football squads to bands. We all have bands we like and follow and love their lineup. For some of us, that lineup is massive to enjoying the band, or not. So, band member changes usually mean a whole new beginning in a way, or a period of adaptation as a fan, let alone if you’re in the actual band.

Even if the band stays the same and you add ONE musician to the mix, the whole thing changes to a degree and some people might like it more, some might like it less. And one of the potential things that can happen is that the band fundamentally changes depending on the influence and impact that one member has.

When we talk about members fundamentally changing state of a band it can make sense if you think of how small a band is compared to a football squad. But as we have seen in the past, ONE player can change the whole team, if not change it’s DNA, at least impact it.

I really can’t come up with an example in the women’s game at the moment, so blame it on my ignorance, but look at RVP when he left us to join United. He won them that league.

But one player coming in isn’t the only way a team changes, of course. I believe we haven’t been the same since DVD left. There are many examples of this for sure and I don’t need to give any more, you get the picture.

So what will happen at Arsenal? Which player will help change us for the better? Who will leave that we will look back and feel it hurt us?

Hate to say it but only time will tell. And in the words of one of my favorite bands, who changed drummers and I have felt they are not the same (Blind Guardian):

“Time, what is time?”