their head of women’s football<\/a> Paul Green leave the club in controversial circumstances after helping them deliver 19 trophies in 13 years – a period spanning all of Emma Hayes’ tenure and Bompastor’s first season in charge.<\/p>\nBefore kick\u2011off, the 2,000\u2011member Kingsmeadow Supporters’ Club – an offshoot of the main Chelsea Women fans’ group – had organised a protest over the “treatment” of Green. <\/p>\n
However, it was rained off, with transport issues also postponing a planned demonstration aimed at the sporting directors of the men’s team, who ultimately oversee women’s football operations.<\/p>\n
Bompastor, who extended her contract until 2030, said: “We tried to focus on the game and I think we did well considering everything that happened this week. <\/p>\n
“We showed a lot of character and I am proud of the players. I feel the support [from the CEO and sporting directors]. The fact they extended my contract in a period where we were not having good results – it means a lot.”<\/p>\n
There were still chants for Green in the 13th minute, with a representative of the new ownership group, Clearlake Capital, watching alongside board member Barbara Charone and women’s team chief executive Aki Mandhar. <\/p>\n
Those decision\u2011makers saw a team built by Green – notably featuring two of his major signings, James and Nusken – making the difference. <\/p>\n
Germany international Nusken’s situation remains intriguing as she made only her fourth WSL start and faces an uncertain future this summer.<\/p>\n
Chelsea’s discontent is, of course, relative. <\/p>\n
While they are nine points behind WSL leaders Manchester City, they remain on track for a Champions League place next season and remain one of the best\u2011funded clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It would be wrong to suggest all is well and harmonious at Chelsea despite an important win. Only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-427237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}