In recent years, there was plenty of speculation about which player — and which team — would break the $1million transfer threshold. Last week, U.S. women’s national team defender Naomi Girma joined Chelsea for a $1.1million fee, breaking that milestone barrier.

T he winter transfer window has been unexpectedly busy in the women's game, especially as a flurry of U.S. women's national team players swap the NWSL for teams in Europe. Naomi G

U.S. women's national team defender Naomi Girma became the most expensive transfer in women's soccer after penning a deal with English club Chelsea.

While Chelsea’s men’s team struggle to get a single signing over the line this January – and in fact have almost as much trouble in shifting some of the players who they’ve had up for sale

United States defender Naomi Girma has become women’s soccer’s first million-dollar player. Who else is on the list of most expensive transfers?

Coming into last Sunday’s match against Arsenal in the Women’s Super League, the Chelsea starting lineup was missing some of its, and therefore the world’s, best players. Some of these superstar absences were injury related—the recently recovered Lauren James was only fit enough for the substitute’s bench,

Chelsea have once again broken the women’s soccer transfer record, this time paying the first-ever seven-digit sum to sign defender Naomi Girma.

Chelsea's Naomi Girma has become the first $1m transfer in women's football, so here is the evolution of the transfer record from the past few decades.

Arsenal held out for 84 minutes but unbeaten Chelsea made it 11 wins from 12 games to take a nine-point lead in the WSL. Oh, and they just signed the world's best defender.

Keira Walsh set to return to WSL after winning back-to-back Champions Leagues and Spanish league titles with Barcelona; Chelseas £400,000 signing of Euros-winning England midfielder follows their capt

Chelsea agree late deal for England international Keira Walsh to join on the Women's Super League's transfer deadline day.