Sarina Wiegman has hit back at criticism from former England goalkeeper Mary Earps by insisting: “I make decisions to win!”<\/p>\n
Lionesses boss Wiegman responded to Earps’ bombshell autobiography for the first time as she unveiled her latest squad at Wembley.<\/p>\n
In her book, ‘All In\u2019, which was serialised by the Guardian, Earps claimed she told Wiegman that “bad behaviour is being rewarded” following her decision to recall fellow goalkeeper Hannah Hampton.<\/p>\n
Earps announced her international retirement prior to Euro 2025, while Wiegman\u2019s decision was vindicated with Hampton starring as England successfully defended their title.<\/p>\n
“That\u2019s her book. A lot of responses on it and I don\u2019t think I can react to anything more because there\u2019s a lot of private conversations that I always keep private,” said Wiegman.<\/p>\n
“I have conversations with different players all the time. And what my reality is, someone else\u2019s reality can be different. Because how you experience things, that\u2019s very individual.<\/p>\n
“I just know what I want to do is create an environment where we speak up, where I give clarity, where I always communicate with players when it\u2019s necessary. And also, I make decisions to win.<\/p>\n
“What I\u2019ve said all the time is that we (had) two incredible goalkeepers within the goalkeepers group and at the end, I made the decision that I came to and that\u2019s what it is for me.<\/p>\n
“What I should say also is that I really, really enjoyed working with Mary. She\u2019s retired now and we had incredible times.<\/p>\n
“What I\u2019m trying to do is be as honest as possible and have a very good working relationship \u2013 and I think that\u2019s what we had. I can\u2019t control the other things.<\/p>\n
“So I just stick with what I want to do, how I want to do it and trying to be clear and honest as possible and make decisions to win.”<\/p>\n
Wiegman revealed she had spoken to Hampton about the saga but had not made contact with Earps, who was booed upon her return to Manchester United with Paris St Germain last week.<\/p>\n
With her squad full of players who have played with both Earps and Hampton \u2013 the latter misses out this time through injury \u2013 Wiegman could be forgiven for expecting further disruption.<\/p>\n
“No, I\u2019m not worried about that,” she added. “I think there\u2019s always dynamics going on. You\u2019re working with people and everyone\u2019s different.<\/p>\n
“No matter what topic there is, there\u2019s always conversations going on. You just want to be open. I want my door to be open at all times to have conversations when that\u2019s needed.<\/p>\n
“Is it disappointing? Yeah, of course. As I always say, I always keep conversations private.<\/p>\n
“I can\u2019t control other people. What I try to do is communicate at all times and I\u2019ll make decisions in what I think is the best team to compete for the next camp or for the tournament. I\u2019ll make decisions to win and that\u2019s what I stick with.”<\/p>\n
Weigman has called up London City Lionesses striker Freya Godfrey, 20, for the first time, for the Wembley friendly with China next Saturday, November 29 and the match against Ghana in Southampton the following Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarina Wiegman has hit back at criticism from former England goalkeeper Mary Earps by insisting: “I make decisions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-146757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}