Karen Carney: Leaving a club can be hard. You have to take the emotion out of it‎

When I knew it was my final season at Chelsea, I didn’t tell anybody. It was 2019, I was captain, and we were trying to win the Champions League for the first time. I’d made the decision that I was going to retire after the World Cup in the summer and, while my future played on my mind during that last campaign, the focus was always on the team and the job at hand. Winger Guro Reiten will have had her Chelsea future in the back of her mind this season, knowing her contract was expiring in the su