Shae Holmes walks with new teammate Jaelin Howell strolling out to her first observe with the Reign on Tuesday, Aug. 20, at Starfire Sports activities complicated in Tukwila, Wash. (Picture credit score: Jane Gershovich | Seattle Reign FC)
SEATTLE — With a long-term imaginative and prescient lastly receiving the help it wants from possession and the Reign sitting second-to-last within the NWSL standings, the group has wasted no time shaking up its roster. Loaning out younger gamers made house for the group’s acquisitions from Europe, whereas franchise stalwart Bethany Balcer was traded to Racing Louisville in change for midfielder Jaelin Howell.
Buying and selling Balcer for Howell and $50,000 in allocation cash got here as a shock to the gamers and followers alike Monday. Whereas the gamers knew earlier than followers and had been already on their option to their new markets, each posted heartbreaking goodbyes to the groups that they had up to now spent their total skilled careers with.
In response to Trip of the Valkyries, Balcer had beforehand expressed curiosity in pursuing different alternatives throughout conversations about signing an extension past the 2025 season. It’s unclear whether or not this narrative is what Balcer was referring to in her cryptic tweet studying, “Individuals will write the narrative they wish to write, however the fact will all the time come to gentle.”
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