Great article.👍🏻

A very good article. A critical part of this is listening to the fans. I have a good feeling about this. Everton can be the next Arsenal.

Good read, tremendous opening.

6,473 at Goodison Park for Everton Women yesterday. Nearly 6x average of WPH. Some expect Everton (& the wider game) to have all the answers now or it's a hoax. Goodison is a reminder that ambition & patience are not mutually exclusive. This is a work in progress. www.nytimes.com/athletic/662...

Pre-season vs Juve, Everton’s Hayashi advised Rion Ishikawa in Japanese. Martina Fernandez assumed it was words of encouragement. “I ask, ‘Hono, what did you say?’ She says, ‘We need to f***ing win’.” Fernandez on leaving Barca + Everton’s new mentality. www.nytimes.com/athletic/661...

Olivia Smith interview. On that goal. On Renee Slegers. On Arsenal being her first long-time home. On being glad Beth Mead didn’t leave. On being scared to say hi to Katie McCabe - then becoming bffs. On being the first £1m women's player. On not caring about that. www.nytimes.com/athletic/661...

'We already made Anfield our training pitch,' Brian Sorensen told 40k at Goodison Park in May. There's cheek + there's having faith in circumstances. Everton W are 6/6 at Anfield, Sunday's win the result of planned, meaningful investment. @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/660...

Reigning Women’s Super League champions Chelsea beat Manchester City 2-1 on Friday — and offered a timely reminder that their domestic hegemony has never boiled down to just one facet. @meganferinga.bsky.social

🚨 THURSDAY POD! 🚨 @acjimbo.bsky.social's got @oilysailor.bsky.social, @danielstorey85.bsky.social & Natalie Gedra with him for... ✅ Deadline day chaos ✅ World Cup qualifiers ✅ A brand new WSL season w/ @meganferinga.bsky.social ✅ High altitude in La Paz/ West Bromwich pod.fo/e/324da0

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea have reached a verbal agreement with Angel City to sign United States international Alyssa Thompson, sources with knowledge of the deal told The Athletic. 📝 @david-ornstein.bsky.social, @meganferinga.bsky.social and @charpur.bsky.social 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...

Chelsea reach verbal agreement with Angel City to sign #USWNT's Alyssa Thompson. Transfer fee of just under £1m, five-year contract, medical completed. @theathleticfc.bsky.social @david-ornstein.bsky.social @meganferinga.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...

“Don’t give up on Ruby.” So said Mace's brother to their parents. Yesterday they watched Mace pose for photos at Goodison Park as Everton's club-record transfer on a 3yr deal. Piece w Mace & parents on a "stressful" transfer tug-of-war + how they never gave up. www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...

Chelsea in advanced talks to sign USWNT’s Alyssa Thompson from Angel City. Fee likely to break the $1million mark. @charpur.bsky.social @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...

Exclusive w @jeffrueter.bsky.social + @meglinehan.com: Kansas City Current have acquired forward USWNT Ally Sentnor from the Utah Royals. 21yo was named the 2024 U.S. Soccer Young Female Player of the Year. Full story @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/653...

My kid and I finished Bunnicula and that book is as good as I remembered

Me and @meganferinga.bsky.social photobombed the Spain team tonight

Tottenham winger Hayley Raso is in talks over a move to Benfica. More from @meganferinga.bsky.social & Guillermo Rai

Exclusive: Fuka Nagano has committed her future to #LFC as she is set to renew her contract amid interest from WSL rivals. Everton held an interest in signing the out-of-contract Japan international while #MUFC also briefly considered a move. 📝 @meganferinga.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/3TSYFMP

🚨BRAND NEW POD!🚨 @acjimbo.bsky.social is joined by Carl Anka, @cdeccleshare.bsky.social, @adrianjclarke.bsky.social & @meganferinga.bsky.social. 🧤That Berger save 💣Rashford out, Mbeumo in 💵Liverpool's spending spree 🇮🇹David Platt in Serie A pod.fo/e/2ff92d

Ann-Katrin Berger saved, dropped to her knees, arms stretched Christ Redeemer style. Same arms that reached into another dimension 30min earlier. Germany are in the semis. Despite hair pulling, gravity, basic human limitations. Bc of AKB @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/650...

Olivia Smith was always going to be women’s football’s first £1m player this summer. But nobody was meant to know. Inside the deal, incl Arsenal’s long-term interest, Smith’s ambitions outgrowing Liverpool + Liverpool’s “Coutinho” gamble. @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/649...

Spoke to coaches of Olivia Smith. Their origin stories are the same: a moment of total arrest, time stopped at a pass/shot/hip swivel, her destiny unfurling. More than anything they speak of a contagious smile, zeal to learn, a will to win. @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/650...

Fantastic piece on the Olivia Smith signing by @meganferinga.bsky.social:

Olivia Smith was always going to be women’s football’s first £1m player this summer. But nobody was meant to know. Inside Smith’s deal, incl Arsenal’s long-term interest, Slegers' sway + Liverpool’s faith in making this a “Coutinho moment”. @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/649...

Liverpool striker Olivia Smith is set to join Arsenal in a world-record £1million deal. All agreements are in place with the deal set to be announced within the next 24 hours. More from @meganferinga.bsky.social ⬇️ 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/640...

Excl: All agreements signed between Liverpool and Arsenal for world record £1.1m transfer of Canada forward Olivia Smith. Personal terms agreed. Deal set to be announced imminently. History in the making. Full story @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/640...

Finally home, won't write much 'cos @meganferinga.bsky.social has said it all here www.nytimes.com/athletic/649..., far better than I ever could. #EURO2025

Midnight. Eve of Wales’ final game. Yma o Hyd fills a karaoke bar despite Andrea Bocelli avowing ‘time is up’. Midnight 24hrs later. Wales family section sings Yma o Hyd in an empty stadium. Song is how Wales brace for battle. It's also how they leave it. www.nytimes.com/athletic/649...

Apparently light travels faster than sound. Apologies to Galileo Galilei but the Italian obviously never saw Portugal play football. Portugal are out of Euro 2025. 2 defeats, 1 draw, countless missed chances. But the fans will be missed. @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/648...

Piece on a goal. Bc how it was relished: an immortal notch canonised into Wales’ sporting timeline. Wales might go home but they will not go silently into that Swiss night. That is Jess Fishlock’s legacy. A player always, forever, there for Wales. www.nytimes.com/athletic/648...

Gareth Taylor is in talks with Liverpool Women to become the club’s head coach. Discussions between former Manchester City boss Taylor and Liverpool are ongoing, but nothing has yet been signed. More from @charpur.bsky.social and @meganferinga.bsky.social ⬇️

1992: 3 women pen a letter to FAW gen sec Alun Evans lobbying for a women's national team. 33yrs later: Switzerland. No one has seen the letter since. Rumours said Aberystwyth. I convinced @theathleticfc.bsky.social to let me go letter hunting. This is the tale. www.nytimes.com/athletic/646...

Wales team bus involved in road collision on way to stadium in St Gallen. FAW say everyone on bus is okay. Driver of vehicle sustained minor injuries. Rhian Wilkinson + captain James visibly shaken when fulfilling media duties. Full story @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/648...

Lucerne: the perfect setting for Wales' first major tournament game. A city surrounded by imposing, confounding heights that pre-kick-off vs the Dutch felt scalable. Memories of Euro 2016 abounded. It wasn't everything. It wasn't nothing. @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/647...

Great read from @meganferinga.bsky.social who was in THAT press conference in Lucerne involving Netherlands boss Jonkers and the "pupper show" allegations. www.nytimes.com/athletic/647...

“Muito mais que futebol” a placard read during Portugal’s Euro 2025 Spain in memory of Jota + Silva. Piece from a match where Portuguese song never stopped, where there was pride + love amid loss. where it was much more than football. @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/647...

A week or so out now, but still enjoying this piece from @meganferinga.bsky.social about going up Snowdon with Wales head coach Rhian Wilkinson: www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

Tottenham Hotspur are set to appoint Martin Ho as the new head coach of their women’s team. Story @theathleticfc.bsky.social w/ @meganferinga.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/646...

Tottenham Hotspur are set to appoint Martin Ho as the new head coach of their women’s team. More from @meganferinga.bsky.social and @jacobtanswell.bsky.social ⤵️

Story with @charlotteharpur: Chelsea to sign Lyon and Australia defender Ellie Carpenter in swap deal for full-back Ashley Lawrence. @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/645...

Women’s clubs who have released players for the summer’s European Championships will receive a larger portion of funding after UEFA’s club benefits programme was increased to €9m from €6m. More from @meganferinga.bsky.social

Excl: Poppy Pattinson set to sign for London City Lionesses upon end of contract w Brighton end of June. Medical on Tuesday. Offers from other WSL clubs for leftback incl Everton. LCL project big allure for England youth intl. Full story @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/645...

Excl: Everton to sign 21yo midfielder Rosa van Gool upon expiration of contract w Ajax. Highly-rated Netherlands intl w WCL experience. Japan defender Hikaru Kitagawa also to join from BK Hacken (first reported by @tomjgarry.bsky.social). @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/645...

8:30am, Rhian Wilkinson sat atop Yr Wyddfa where, 6mos before she became Wales manager last Feb, she spread her father’s ashes. In an hour she’d announce Wales historic Euro2025 squad. A day of history + poignancy for all involved. @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

Women’s Super League 1 (WSL1) and Women’s Super League 2 (WSL2) clubs have voted to expand the top-flight for the 2026-27 season from 12 to 14 teams, as well as introduce a play-off system for relegation and promotion. More from @meganferinga.bsky.social ⬇️

Blackburn Rovers Women will take part in a redundancy process that could impact at least 20 members of staff, while all senior players are set to be released at the end of June, according to people familiar with the process. 📝 @meganferinga.bsky.social

Excl: Around 20 Blackburn Rovers women's staff to be made redundant after club's self-demotion to Tier 4, incl coaching, operations, pathway & comms. Senior staff informed of process today. Player contracts won't be renewed at end of June. @TheAthleticFC www.nytimes.com/athletic/642...

Brian Sorensen’s real speech at Goodison in May didn’t make the club's final social media cut. But he's still smiling. “For the first time since I’ve been at Everton, I got all my transfer targets.” A very different summer window for #EFCW. @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/641...

A player at a Premier League club has been accused of sexual assault by four different women and has carried on playing. We can't name him for legal reasons. “It’s a systemic failure,” says Nazir Afzal, the former Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England. ✍️ @mjslater.bsky.social

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...