There is a new interliga transfer record in the NWSL: Jaedyn Shaw from the courage al Gotham FC for 1.25 million dollars.
The North Carolina Courange agreed to transfer the American midfielder Jaedyn Shaw to Gotham FC for 1.25 million dollars, which would represent an intraraliga record for a NWSL transferas confirmed by several sources to ESPN.
This 1.25 million dollars are more than double the intraraliga record established in August, when the Kansas City Current paid $ 600,000 to Utah Royals For the front of the American national team, Ally Sentnor. In addition, it would be among the most expensive international transfers to date.
The amount would be paid in several installments and would be allocated entirely to NWSL intraraliga transfers funds, confirmed a league source.
Gotham, who was looking for a creativity player for his team, plans to sign Shaw until the 2029 NWSL season.
The NWSL secondary signing market closed on August 25 for incoming international transfers, but exchanges can still be made until the freezing of the staff throughout the league on October 9.
The Shaw of the Courage would mean the end of his time with the team after less than a full season.
The 20 -year -old was transferred from San Diego Wave FC To North Carolina in January, transfer that he requested claiming his desire for a change of airs at that time. As part of the agreement, the Courage sent to San Diego 300 thousand dollars in allocation funds, an international position for the 2025 and 2026 seasons of the NWSL, and 150 thousand dollars in intraraliga transfers.
During his stay in San Diego, Shaw won the NWSL Shield and the NWSL Challenge Cupand was appointed to the ideal eleven of the NWSL in 2023.
Shaw will join a Gotham team that occupies the sixth place to seven games from the end, while the NWSL enters the final stretch before the postseason.
North Carolina occupies the eleventh place, but only four points from the eighth and last place in the playoffs. Courage dismissed Sean Nahas as the main coach in early August. Shaw, who declared in April that it was hard for him to meet the high expectations since he joined the Courage, has started in 10 NWSL games this season and adds three goals and an assistance.
Adds eight goals in 26 games with the absolute selection of USA and won the Golden Ball as the best player of the tournament in the first position of the Americans in the Women’s Gold Cup of 2024.
