USWNT, Chelsea’s Mia Fishel talks with NWSL club – Source

A source told ESPN that U.S. women's national team forward Mia Fishel is discussing a summer transfer with multiple NWSL teams.

Fishel, 24, is looking for summer moves to be the focus of the NWSL team's frontline and is looking to win more USWNT caps before the 2027 World Cup.

She had three blocks for USWNT and scored her only international senior goal in Game 2 for USWNT in 2023.

Her time on USWNT was limited as ACL suffered a torn while training with the team before the 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup.

Fishel recently returned to Chelsea's venue and spent one of the past international breakthroughs in past international breakouts against Germany's U-23.

USWNT head coach Emma Hayes said last month: "Yes, she can come in and sit on the bench (the senior team), but it would be better for her to go to Germany to play and get experience so that these players can play where we hope they want to play in 2027."

Chelsea already has a crowded roster that includes USWNT forward Catarina Macario and Colombia Mayra Ramírez, who joined Chelsea in early 2024 with record transfer fees at the time.

Australian striker Sam Kerr has twice the league's best scorer in recent years and deserves it due to a long-term knee injury.

Hayes was Chelsea’s coach when the team acquired fishing gear from Liga MX MX feminist Tigres in 2023 and received a $250,000 transfer fee.

Tigres signed Fish from college in 2022 and the striker made an immediate impact. She was the top scorer of the 2022 Aptura (Autumn) season, with Tigres winning the championship, adding another 13 goals to 2023 Spring before moving to Chelsea.

Fishel was originally selected fifth by the Orlando Pride in the 2022 NWSL draft and left UCLA early a year, but she refused to sign with Orlando and chose to go to Tigres in Mexico.

Orlando just hired former UCLA coach Amanda Cromwell as the proud head coach, despite Cromwell being suspended earlier in the 2022 NWSL season and eventually ended up on suspicion of retaliation and violation of the league’s workplace discrimination policy.

“When I’m selected, it’s not necessarily the choice I want,” Fishel told The Landscape in 2023. “If I didn’t go to Tigres in Mexico, I have no doubt that I wouldn’t be in Chelsea right now.

“I believe in this.”