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Two-time NWSL champion Yazmeen Ryan has been traded from NJ/NY Gotham FC to the Houston Sprint, a number of sources confirmed to The Equalizer.
Houston is anticipated to ship money to Gotham in return for Ryan, with a number of sources pegging the quantity at $400,000 complete. The deal was finished earlier than Friday night’s transaction moratorium, sources confirmed.
The money transaction is believed to be the biggest money price in NWSL historical past for an inner league commerce — and it’s double what Angel Metropolis FC paid the Portland Thorns ($200,000) two years in the past in a three-team commerce that despatched Ryan to Gotham FC.
Earlier this yr, the Chicago Crimson Stars traded ahead Penelope Hocking to Bay FC for $350,000 in intra-league funds, paid out over two seasons (and with a ten% sell-on price).
Ryan, a flexible participant who can play in numerous positions throughout the ahead line and midfield, just lately made her debut for america ladies’s nationwide workforce. She received an NWSL Championship with the Portland Thorns in 2022 and with Gotham the next yr.
Ryan tallied 5 objectives and 5 assists in 2024. She began in 22 of her 24 appearances for Gotham FC.
The commerce marks the second main exit of the week for Gotham. The Equalizer’s Dan Lauletta reported on Wednesday that United States worldwide ahead Lynn Williams and goalkeeper Cassie Miller had been traded from Gotham to Seattle Reign FC in change for midfielder Jaelin Howell. Each Ryan and Williams arrived at Gotham through trades forward of the workforce’s 2023 championship season.
Houston completed in final place in 2024 amid a tumultuous season off the sphere that noticed former normal supervisor Alex Singer fired and former head coach Fran Alonso — who solely arrived on the membership in February — mysteriously disappear for 12 weeks earlier than being let go by the workforce in September.
The Sprint just lately employed Angela Hucles Mangano, who was fired as Angel Metropolis FC normal supervisor the week prior, as the brand new president of ladies’s soccer, successfully filling Houston’s GM function. The Sprint are nonetheless with no full-time head coach.
Nonetheless, Houston has made a number of key acquisitions this offseason — together with Ryan and midfielder Delanie Sheehan, who each performed at Gotham most just lately. Sheehan signed with Houston as a free agent for a big pay elevate, a supply with data of the deal beforehand confirmed to The Equalizer.
