Chelsea already wanted her in September and so the Blues managed to get her a year later. Nicky Evrard, 27, will end the season at Oud-Heverlee Louvain before putting on the gloves at Chelsea, which she will join on July 1.
Winner of the Golden Boot and goalkeeper of the Red Flames, Nicky Evrard will take a step next season by joining Chelsea. A transfer that pleases the player but of which Cecile De Gernier is not a fan, as she explained this Monday during the show La Tribune: “It’s to be 2nd goalkeeper. And I find that you don’t progress by agreeing to go and play 2nd goalkeeper in a club. Chelsea is a club that plays with internationals who are in the world top. “It’s good for his progress and financially too. Afterwards, he’s our starter in the national team. If Courtois had left to be 2nd goalkeeper, everyone would have said that it was not good. And here it’s the same thing.”
Words confirmed by Marc Wilmots : “if you don’t play, it’s true that it’s complicated. Because you have no rhythm and it’s complicated to come to the national team.“
Hugo Siquetguest on the show, also has his own idea: “mentally it destroys you to be only on the bench, but there are some who accept. Everyone has their own way of seeing things.”
It remains to be seen now if Nicky will be able to thwart the predictions.
