After close to six years, 161 appearances, 32 goals and some set-piece statistics that’ll make your eyes bulge, Katie Zelem departs Manchester United as she joined us: as a winner.
One of 22 players recruited ahead of United Women’s inaugural campaign of 2018/19, there were older, more experienced heads in that group, be it defenders Amy Turner and Alex Greenwood, or goalkeeper Siobhan Chamberlain, but among the first-term roster was a born-and-bred Red from Failsworth, near Oldham – a midfielder with a distinctive surname and on-pitch appearance, European experience, and more major honours than any of her new team-mates.