Arsenal have signed ex-France goalkeeper Sarah Bouhaddi on a short-term deal.
The 37-year-old is a free agent having performed with Paris St-Germain final season.
Previous to that she spent 13 years with Lyon, serving to the French aspect to win 11 league titles, eight French Cups and eight UEFA Girls’s Champions Leagues.
“I am delighted to grow to be a part of this nice membership,” she mentioned.
“Arsenal has a lot historical past throughout each the lads’s and girls’s groups. I’ve at all times admired the membership.
“I am excited to get the chance to play in a league that’s going from energy to energy and I need to convey my expertise to assist the remainder of the squad. I can not wait to get began.”
Bouhaddi has 149 worldwide caps for France throughout a distinguished 16-year worldwide profession, is her nation’s most-capped goalkeeper and was a part of the squad that received the SheBelieves Cup in 2017.
Arsenal supervisor Jonas Eidevall had been on the lookout for cowl within the place with Canadian goalkeeper Sabrina D’Angelo away at subsequent month’s Concacaf W Gold Cup in the US.
Bouhaddi is anticipated to be Arsenal’s ultimate signing within the January switch window, including to the arrival of USA defender Emily Fox, who has impressed on her Girls’s Tremendous League debut towards Liverpool on Sunday.