{"id":597027,"date":"2021-07-23T10:32:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T14:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=597027"},"modified":"2021-07-23T10:32:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T14:32:50","slug":"lauren-james-chelsea-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/23\/lauren-james-chelsea-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren James Completes Chelsea Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren James has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/news\/2021\/07\/23\/lauren-james-joins-chelsea-women\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">completed<\/a> a move to Chelsea Women from Manchester United. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/news\/2021\/07\/23\/blundell-moves-on\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hannah Blundell has moved the other way<\/a> as part of the deal.<\/p>\n<h2>Lauren James Joins Chelsea Women<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">She&#8217;s back! \ud83d\ude01<\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to Chelsea, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laurenjamess22?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@LaurenJamess22<\/a>! \ud83d\udd35<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WelcomeHomeLauren?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WelcomeHomeLauren<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hjJMNoNby3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/hjJMNoNby3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chelsea FC Women (@ChelseaFCW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaFCW\/status\/1418544223620681729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>James Completes Move<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/16\/lauren-james-set-for-chelsea-move\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea&#8217;s move for Lauren James has been in the pipeline for some time<\/a>. The forward was at Chelsea as a youngster before moving on to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/22\/emile-smith-rowe-new-contract\/\" target=\"_self\">Arsenal<\/a>, and subsequently joining Manchester United. She has scored 22 goals across three seasons in the Women&#8217;s Championship and the WSL. Lauren was nominated for the PFA Young Player of the year award in 2019\/20. She joins her brother Reece James at Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>She has played across the youth teams for England, and was, in fact, called up to the England Women training camp last October. She scored as a subsitute against Chelsea on the opening day of the 2020\/21 season. Lauren has signed a four-year contract for the club, joining in a WSL record \u00a3200,000 fee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/02\/emma-hayes-chelsea-contract\/\" target=\"_self\">Emma Hayes<\/a> has a strong squad that includes Sam Kerr, Fran Kirby and Pernille Harder. Harder, in fact, is the reigning UEFA Women&#8217;s Player of the Year. Kerr, meanwhile, arrived with a stellar reputation. After a quiet start, she scored 22 goals last season, picking up the Golden Boot. The two of them, along with a rejuvenated Fran Kirby, have kept 2019\/20 WSL Player of the Season Bethany England on the bench. Hayes will have further options to pick from as she attempts to win the UEFA Women&#8217;s Champions League after falling to Barcelona in last season&#8217;s final.<\/p>\n<h3>Long-Serving Blundell Moves on<\/h3>\n<p>Hannah Blundell has joined Manchester United after 11 years at Chelsea. Blundell is a graduate of Chelse&#8217;s Centre of Excellence, and made her WSL debut in 2013 against Birmingham City. Since joining the club as 16-year old, making 165 appearances, scoring 12 times.<\/p>\n<p>She was a joint winner of the 2015 Young Player of the Year award with Millie Bright, and made the PFA Team of the Season for her displays in 2017\/18. Blundell won four WSL titles, two FA Cups, two League Cups, and the 2017 Spring Series.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old right-back becomes Manchester United&#8217;s second new arrival 0f the season after Norway international Vilde B\u00f8e Risa from Sandviken. They are yet to appoint a new manager since the departure of Casey Stoney. A number of players have left the club this summer. Marc Skinner, who is currently at Orlando Pride, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2021\/07\/20\/manchester-united-women-hoping-appoint-marc-skinner-new-manager\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly<\/a> close to joining as Manchester United Women&#8217;s new head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"HldUdrApRV9zPscbj958og\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1231968135\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'HldUdrApRV9zPscbj958og',sig:'ej_8UKN4Bj1ynQB9M4THOZGmSqYBOZkyC8bXyVTpv2Q=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1231968135',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren James has completed a move to Chelsea Women from Manchester United. Hannah Blundell has moved the other way as part of the deal. Lauren James Joins Chelsea Women She&#8217;s back! \ud83d\ude01 Welcome back to Chelsea, @LaurenJamess22! \ud83d\udd35#WelcomeHomeLauren pic.twitter.com\/hjJMNoNby3 \u2014 Chelsea FC Women (@ChelseaFCW) July 23, 2021 James Completes Move Chelsea&#8217;s move for Lauren James [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3900,"featured_media":597035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7007,11,28,1,7008],"tags":[8228],"class_list":["post-597027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-womens-football","category-chelsea","category-transfers","category-uncategorized","category-womens-super-league","tag-lauren-james"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}