‘We need to win the league’: City aim to end Chelsea’s WSL dominance
The Guardian says For Gareth Taylor, the definition of success has narrowed. “It means winning the WSL this season,” says Manchester City’s manager. “We need to win the league. We’ve looked at it and we feel we can achieve it.”
After last season’s fourth-place finish, Taylor is on a mission to end Chelsea’s run of four successive Women’s Super League titles, with that project’s feasibility facing an early stress test when Emma Hayes’s formidable team visit what they now call the Joie Stadium on Sunday.
City are proud to be the first WSL club to secure a naming-rights deal for a home they hope will house silverware next spring. Yet where their key rivals have been active in the summer transfer market, Taylor opted for quality over quantity, signing only the Netherlands attacking midfielder Jill Roord from Wolfsburg, reportedly for a club record fee of £300,000. Roord marked her debut at West Ham last week by excelling, and scoring, in a 2-0 away win.