Jamaica full-back Taylor Hinds has joined Arsenal as a free agent following the tip of her contract with Liverpool.
The 26-year-old returns to the membership the place she started her profession earlier than becoming a member of Everton in 2018.
BBC Sport understands she has signed a three-year deal and turns into the Gunners’ second signing of the summer time after England ahead Chloe Kelly made her mortgage transfer everlasting.
“This can be a full-circle second for me and I am grateful to come back again to a spot I known as residence after I was youthful,” stated Hinds.
“I can not wait to get began and to step out on the pitch at Emirates Stadium in entrance of all our unbelievable supporters.”
Hinds brings versatility and competitors in defence together with vital Ladies’s Tremendous League expertise.
Arsenal have been eager to get their enterprise achieved early within the switch window in an effort to construct on their Ladies’s Champions League success and are anticipated to make not less than yet another signing.
After two years with the Toffees, Hinds moved to Liverpool and made 131 appearances in 5 seasons, scoring eight targets.
She was an integral a part of their Ladies’s Championship title win in 2021-22 and have become Liverpool vice-captain in 2023.
Arsenal boss Renee Slegers, who led Arsenal to victory within the Champions League in Could, stated Hinds was a “versatile participant who has nice expertise”.
“We’re delighted to welcome Taylor again to Arsenal. I am excited to get began with Taylor on the coaching pitch,” she added.
Hinds can play each full-back and in midfield and represented England at youth stage within the Underneath-17 and Underneath-20 World Cups earlier than switching allegiance to Jamaica, for whom she made her debut towards France in October final yr.
Hinds will put on the quantity 24 shirt on her return to Arsenal.
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