A very subjective look into AWFC

Eleven. Just eleven. That is the amount of matches that Katie McCabe has left in an Arsenal shirt if she is to actually leave our club and those 11 are only if the girls make it to the CL and FA Cup finals. This is gonna happen a lot with a lot of players as the club moves them on or pushes them out or however you wanna see it.

You can be sad about it, you can try to make it a “positive” thing or, if you’re like me, you can do both. I will miss her very much, she’s one of my players and like I’ve said before, the player I’ve seen in person the most. Only 3 times but enough to make me so very happy. You are all so lucky that you’ve seen her so many more times.The point being that we need to appreciate them NOW, specially Katie who as you know (if you’re read this blog) I see as a “throw forward” player aka a player of the future aka we want every player to be as dynamic as her.

And not to be rude but my guess is that it’ll be the same amount of matches for Beth, Stina, Frida, Pelova, Manu, maybe Steph, which I don’t think my heart could handle.

Every summer brings a risk of legendary players moving on. I love them all but I love some more than others, that’s just a fact and I would trade some of the players leaving for a fan favorite or two. When some of them go a lot of what we know and love about Arsenal Women will go and the club and board are doing what they can to make you believe some of these women are replaceable.

Katie isn’t, and neither is Steph and Viv, DvD, Jill, JORDAN NOBBS, etc weren’t but they want new fans to cling onto new players so they perpetuate “loyalty” by way of merch sales and match attendance. Make no mistake about it.

Honestly NONE of them are. Every single woman that has ever laced up a pair of footballing boots at any level is a queen, a goddess and will forever have my respect, which they will have with any footwear too. I just have to point out sometimes how at the end of the day Arsenal is a money making entity, that’s what they value: MONEY, more than actual success and I mean that as it mostly relates to the men. Shocker!

Make sure you share some love with her and with yourself. Sit with the feeling of how privileged we have all been to watch them all play for us, together on the same pitch “countless times.”

I’m not over Dom leaving, let alone Lia Walti or even Leonie Maier who deserved more and so did Vicki Schnaderbeck.

Say hi to Katie for me.

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