Arsenal’s record goalscorer Vivianne Miedema signals new deal amid noted Barcelona desire

Arsenal’s document goalscorer Vivianne Miedema has signed a new offer with the Women’s Tremendous League club.

The 25-12 months-old Dutch global has scored 117 aims in 144 game titles considering that signing for the Gunners in 2017 from Bayern Munich, getting the league’s all-time main scorer.

With her initial agreement expiring this summer time, Miedema had been intensely linked with a shift to Barcelona, but she is now established to stay in north London.

“I feel the most wonderful point about the activity is building some thing with a workforce and with individuals close to you that you definitely want to be all-around,” said Miedema, who scored 14 league targets as Arsenal concluded a point powering WSL champions Chelsea this time.

“I do sense like I have acquired that at Arsenal. I sense like for me, successful titles with Arsenal will imply a good deal more to me than successful them with one more club at the minute. And that’s what I definitely hope to achieve with Arsenal.”

Miedema received the 2018/19 WSL title with Arsenal, and her new deal was welcomed by boss Jonas Eidevall, who has also a short while ago signed a deal extension.

“Viv is a stellar talent and a massively essential participant for this group, so it’s amazing news that she is being with us,” Eidevall stated.

“As a club, our ambition is to acquire titles and compete at the highest amount – we know Viv’s very own ambitions are the exact same, and jointly we will give almost everything to obtain that.”

Arsenal’s head of women’s football Clare Wheatley added: “This is an critical day for Arsenal Football Club. Viv is amongst the most effective gamers on the planet and has shown her high quality yr after yr in the Arsenal jersey.

“We have bold targets here and Viv will engage in a essential job in us reaching them transferring forward.”