Women’s football has officially entered its era of falling records, inevitable for any discipline that is developing so quickly economically. Less than three weeks ago, at the end of January, the Chelsea club recruited Mayra Ramirez from Levante for a record sum of 500,000 euros. This Tuesday, February 13, the transfer has already been relegated to the second most expensive place in the history of women’s football by the latest expense of Bay FC, a newcomer to the NWSL (the American women’s soccer championship).
The San Francisco-based team has formalized the recruitment of Zambian striker from Real Madrid, Racheal Kundananji. According to the specialized media The Equalizerwhose information has been confirmed by several major Spanish mediaBay FC paid 735,000 euros for the transfer, the sum of the player’s release clause, to which could be added “$75,000 in performance-based supplements”.
According to The Equalizer, Kundananji will also be one of the highest-paid players in one of the most storied leagues in the world, with a four-year contract valued at between $2 million and $2.5 million in total. With 25 goals scored last season in Liga F, Racheal Kundananji came second in the scorers’ rankings for her first season in the Spanish championship? This season, it already had 8 units.
Bay FC is building a very solid squad
The Bay FC team, based in San Francisco and which is one of the two new NWSL teams starting in 2024 with the Utah Royals, has been very active on the transfer market. In addition to Kundananji, it also recorded the arrival of Nigerian striker from FC Barcelona Asisat Oshoala, Venezuelan striker from Manchester City Deyna Castellanos, and Scottish defender from Arsenal Jen Beattie.
Slowly, but surely, transfers in the world of women’s football are approaching one million. Two years ago, PSG had already refused a record offer, at the time, from Chelsea for Grace Geyoro (500,000 euros), and the two records set in such a short interval by Mayra Ramirez and Racheal Kundananji tend to show that it is only a matter of time for this highly symbolic bar to fall too.
