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Arsenal person continued their rebuild of the squad by signing the Spain goalkeeper Misa Rodríguez connected a escaped transfer. The 27-year-old arrives aft spending the past six years astatine Real Madrid.
The WSL broadside person already added Georgia Stanway (Bayern Munich), Selina Cerci (Hoffenheim), Ona Batlle (Barcelona) and Géraldine Reuteler (Eintracht Frankfurt) arsenic they purpose to situation for the league title. Last play they finished second, 4 points down champions Manchester City.
“I’m truthful arrogant to articulation this large club,” said Rodríguez. “Arsenal is 1 of the apical clubs successful the satellite and I’m truly excited to beryllium portion of the squad and instrumentality connected this caller challenge. I privation to assistance america vie for trophies and marque much history, unneurotic with our supporters.”
Rodríguez has doubly been awarded the Zamora Trophy for having the lowest goals-per-game ratio successful the league and was made the Real Madrid skipper successful 2025.
Born successful Las Palmas de Gran Canaria successful July 1999, Rodríguez developed astatine younker level with CD Femarguin earlier joining Atletico Madrid successful 2017. A determination to Deportivo La Coruña followed earlier the 2019-20 season, during which she established herself arsenic 1 of Spain’s astir promising young goalkeepers, helping Deportivo to a fourth-place decorativeness successful their archetypal top-flight campaign.
The Arsenal caput coach, Renée Slegers, added: “Misa is simply a apical goalkeeper who has performed consistently astatine a precocious level for respective years. As good arsenic her method attributes, she has large beingness and connection connected the transportation and we judge she’ll beryllium a beardown summation to our goalkeeping unit, alongside Daphne [van Domselaar], Anneke [Borbe] and Isabella [Damm].”
