Emma Hayes mentioned the “time is correct” for her to step down as Chelsea supervisor after it was confirmed final week she’s going to go away the Girls’s Tremendous League champions on the finish of the season.
Nonetheless, she wouldn’t be drawn on reviews linking her with the vacant United States nationwide workforce job, and mentioned the choice to depart is motivated by a need to spend extra time together with her five-year-old son, Harry.
The membership have dominated the WSL since Hayes was appointed in 2012, profitable six of the final eight titles.
Emma Hayes to depart Chelsea on the finish of the season.
— Chelsea FC Girls (@ChelseaFCW) November 4, 2023
She confirmed that she is more likely to play a task in serving to to decide on her successor as Chelsea go about their first supervisor search in additional than a decade.
“I’ve been in publish for 12 years and I’ve devoted my life to this place,” she mentioned. “I drive 4 hours each day, six days per week for 12 years. I’ve a five-year-old that wants extra of his mummy. Household issues.
“I feel I’ve devoted as a lot as I presumably can to this soccer membership. I’ve liked each minute of it. I feel it’s actually vital if potential to create a succession plan for me, very like (basic supervisor) Paul (Inexperienced) and I do with the gamers.
“The time is correct. I’ll work with the membership within the succession plan and do the whole lot I can to verify there may be nearly as good at transition as potential in order that my successor can have the identical stage of success I had.”
Only a handful of video games left at Stamford Bridge throughout Emma Hayes’ tenure.
Let’s make them ones to recollect, beginning on November 18th.
— Chelsea FC Girls (@ChelseaFCW) November 6, 2023
There have been reviews that the membership did not prioritise tying Hayes to a brand new deal in latest months, however she wouldn’t touch upon recommendations she not felt she had the backing of the hierarchy.
“It’s truthful to say I imagine in non-public conversations,” mentioned Hayes. “I’m disenchanted to listen to issues being mentioned within the press. I wish to be sure I preserve my very own professionalism. I’ve a workforce to deal with. I’ve acquired video games to win. I don’t suppose something will come between me and the gamers, or me and the followers.
“I perceive Chelsea, I do know Chelsea. That is my membership, it can at all times be my membership. And while I’m unhappy on many, many ranges – I’ve at all times mentioned to the followers there’ll come that second after I’m sat with them within the crowd.
“What now we have created on this constructing is magical. It’s one thing each participant appreciates being part of. So far as I’m involved, the folks I’ve labored with in that interval have made me really feel one of the best coach I can really feel – that’s not at all times simple.
“I go away on the finish the season understanding I’ve given the whole lot and finished the whole lot.”
The assertion issued by the membership saying her departure referred to her having chosen to pursue “a brand new alternative exterior of the WSL and membership soccer.”
Some have taken this to imply a transfer into worldwide administration is inevitable, however she wouldn’t be drawn on what the following step in her profession could be.
“I’m not going to touch upon that,” mentioned Hayes. “I’m contracted to Chelsea till then of the season. That’s the place my dedication lies proper now.
“As a little bit lady I at all times thought at some point (a nationwide workforce job) would come. For many of us, we don’t essentially at all times fulfil each dream that now we have. I’d say it would at all times be an ambition of mine to do this.
“I feel I’m simply on the level the place I’ve to think about one thing else, and that’s the place I’m in proper now. I don’t ponder something extra. Taking these selections doesn’t come simple.”
