Rebecca Rayner returns to Sheffield United Women
Rebecca Rayner returns to Sheffield United Women
Sheffield United have re-signed attacking midfielder Rebecca Rayner from FA Women’s National League side Nottingham Forest.
Rayner spent the 2018/19 campaign with the Blades contributing to 13 goals, with five goals herself and eight assists for her team mates.
Rayner re-joins the club ahead of this weekend’s clash with league leaders Leicester City having worked with current head coach Neil Redfearn at Doncaster Rovers Belles, where she won the league back in 2018.
A former England U-21 international, the 21-year-old can play across the front line, as well as the attacking midfield role in.
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Manager Melanie Reay, along side assistant Trevor Atkinson and her coaching staff have been hard at work with their squad down at the Academy of Light this week, only relishing briefly in their victory at the weekend before returning to business as usual.
Reay now turns her attention to a testing fixture come Sunday as the FA Womenâs National League resumes and Derby make the 150-mile trip up North to compete.
Derby manager Sam Griffiths in a tactician that Reay knows extremely well and following battles in the 2019-20 campaign before it was prematurely cut short, knows exactly what to expect when the Rams touch down on Wearside.