Chelsea goal poacher, Samantha Kerr has signed a two-year deal extension with Barclays FA Women’s Super League (WSL) Champions which will see her remain at the London side till 2024, in a deal that is reportedly set to make her one of the world’s highest-paid female footballers, according to BBC sports.
The Australian forward joined the Blues on a two-and-a-half-year deal in November 2019 and has already won back-to-back FAWSL titles and Continental Cup wins and last season also came out top in the Community Shield, as well as reaching the final of the Women’s Champions League for the first time in the club’s history.
“I feel comfortable being here. I think the club gives me every opportunity to succeed as a player,” said Kerr.
“I can’t see myself going anywhere else in the world or leaving Europe, having what I have at Chelsea.”
The 28-year-old is no stranger to winning awards, having scooped the Golden Boot for the Barclays Women’s Super League 2020/21 season with 21 goals in 22 matches. It is an accolade she received two previous times as top scorer in the US and Australia, making her the first player to ever win it across three different leagues, in three different continents. She has scored 39 goals in 47 appearances for Chelsea.
She continued: “I don’t go out there to win golden boots, I just go out there to give everything I can to the team and help the team to succeed and win trophies.
“I’m not going to lie, it’s nice when I do win them but that’s not my main goal at the start of the year. It’s a nice reward, but if I won golden boot after golden boot and no trophies, it wouldn’t be that rewarding to me.
“So that’s why last season winning the golden boot and winning the league was really rewarding because finally it meant something.”
The forward is also on the shortlist for the Ballon d’Or for the third time in her career and most recently, was nominated for BBC’s Footballer of the Year for the fourth time.
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