Girls’s Tremendous League champions Chelsea are set to nominate Lyon supervisor Sonia Bompastor as Emma Hayes’ successor, sources have instructed ESPN.
Information of Chelsea’s curiosity in Bompastor broke in February and the 2 events held prolonged discussions over a compensation settlement.
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Bompastor is contracted to Lyon by means of to 2025, however she is ready to go away the French champions to take cost of Chelsea on the finish of the season.
Bompastor has been Chelsea’s primary goal all through the method of figuring out Hayes’ successor. Hayes will depart the membership on the finish of the season to take up the US Girls’s Nationwide Staff head coach place.
Hayes leaves large sneakers to fill at Chelsea. She has remodeled the facet, steering them to 6 WSL titles since she took cost in 2012, in addition to profitable 5 FA Cups.
Chelsea are nonetheless on for a treble this season, regardless of dropping the Conti Cup ultimate to Arsenal final month. They face Barcelona within the semifinals of the Champions League, are second within the WSL and play Manchester United within the semifinals of the FA Cup on Sunday.
In the event that they handle to beat Barcelona in Europe, they may come up in opposition to Bompastor’s Lyon within the ultimate.
Bompastor received 156 caps for France and the 2011 and 2012 Champions League titles as a participant at Lyon. She joined the group’s backroom employees in 2013 and took cost of the primary group in 2021 after Jean-Luc Vasseur’s departure.
Within the 2021-22 marketing campaign, she led Lyon to the league title and Champions League, and backed that up by steering Lyon to their second straight league crown final time period.
Securing Bompastor’s companies hasn’t been simple for Chelsea. Lyon had been taken over earlier this month by American businesswoman Michele Kang who pledged to assist Lyon change into dominant in Europe once more.
