London Metropolis have signed 13 gamers this summer season, together with seasoned professionals and serial winners in Nikita Parris, Danielle van de Donk and Elena Linari to call simply three.
Jana Fernandez was one other eye-catching signing, with the 23-year-old becoming a member of from Barcelona.
As she did final summer season, Kang is stating her intent earlier than a ball has even been kicked. A publish on X asserting Parris’ signing said: “We did not come to play”.
It offers Precheur a formidable squad with which to compete in a league the place each level and purpose might imply the distinction between thriving or battling relegation.
“These new gamers are important for me on and off the pitch,” he stated.
“I am very completely happy the membership determined to take a position. We’ve got a sporting director [Markel Zubizarreta] now within the membership, so he is actually accountable for the recruitment.
“We knew after the Birmingham recreation we wanted to be stronger. We do not wish to repeat the identical story as Bristol Metropolis and Crystal Palace, and we all know the hole is big in the present day between the WSL2 and the WSL.
“It is about being the primary one to leap on the prepare, as a result of that is what attracts different gamers to affix as properly. If you aren’t getting the suitable gamers, it might be harder to signal gamers.”
“The largest problem for me is we have to create a group and make them play collectively. However as a membership, we have to create a tradition of the excessive stage, which did not exist after I arrived.
“We’ve got a whole lot of vitality, now we have an excellent dynamic however I do know primarily based on my earlier expertise, a excessive stage requires greater than that.
“So now, we’re constructing the foundations, however it’s additionally the second for us to begin to concentrate on particulars. That is the place I count on loads from skilled gamers like Nikita, Danielle, Kosovare final season, and Saki [Kumagai] when she arrived.
“I do know they are going to be very useful for me to create the tradition we want to carry out at a excessive stage throughout a protracted season within the WSL.”
So the gamers, supervisor and workers are in place, the membership is well-supported financially they usually have reached the head of the ladies’s recreation in England.
That simply leaves the large query – can London Metropolis Lionesses keep up?
“Sure”, Asllani stated merely, however confidently.
“We’re a brand new group within the league, however we aren’t an inexperienced group. We’ve got skilled gamers everywhere in the squad.
“We’ve got gamers profitable the Champions League and enjoying in huge tournaments with their nations.
“And we’re London Metropolis Lionesses, we’re writing historical past. We’re not going to go down.”
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