If there is one thing that Chloe Kelly will look for more in the coming months, it's time.
Time on the field. Time to find her rhythm in an Arsenal shirt. Time to make contact again with the teammates she played with England for a long time – connections that she now hopes to build at club level.
With the countdown to the euros in July, the time becomes both her ally and her rival, with every minute crucial.
Kelly is without a doubt an icon of the women's game, forever etched in history for her extra time goal that brought the first major international trophy to these coasts since 1966.
Hear the roar in Wembley Stadium on Wednesday evening when the number of the winger on the board of the official flashed and her name remains synonymous with that great evening under the same famous arch three years ago.
A player for the big moments – in particular her thunderous fine on the World Cup 2023 who attacked the fastest place that season by every Premier League player surpassed – Kelly's drop – off of the highest heights is alarming.
How that happened so drastically under Gareth Taylor in Manchester City is complex, but the statistics go a way to explain it – they show that she did not score for Club or Land in five months, since her opener against Paris FC in a Champions League qualification in September.
Her last assist for City was in the FA Cup against the third tiered Ipswich Town and with regard to the competition, she has not managed any target involvement this season.
What became clear in the city was that as her performances fell, Kelly was relegated to a bit speech under Taylor and this limited playing time only added more pressure to perform when she came to the field.
Trust is of vital importance in football, and Kelly's desire to prove herself – while Sarina Wiegman reminded her and the world that she was getting credit – the situation only seemed to intensify.
While the word of a fight with Taylor began to spread, Kelly began to insist on a move to Rivals Manchester United, with her camp that suggested that she was being held against her will in the city. The club claimed that they just waited for the right range to arrive at their door.
Then, at the crucial moment, a door has broken open and it seems that she has thanked Arsenal Renee Sleesers.
SLESSEN revealed that she had an open and honest conversation with Kelly, and the result of that discussion brought the lioness to North Londen. “We both opened,” said the butchers at the time.
'I tried to open about what Arsenal is and what she could mean for us, and she opened about what she can bring us and what her ambitions are. It was a very good conversation. '
Those close to Arsenal say that she returned to the club with a smile and her transition was relaxed by her fame with many of the faces around her, after she had played next to them for England.
Originally Van Ealing, Kelly's first appearance ever in the top flight with the Gunners, five years after it at their academy at the age of 12.
When rumors on Deadline Day were swirling on a potential loan movement, Beth Mead and Leah Williamson sent messages to the staff asking if Kelly came 'home'. And so everyone in the club regards her return, a return home.
At this point the time had risen for Kelly under Wiegman, who dropped her out of the English team a few days later. “Start playing and show what you are left, and then we have that conversation again,” said England's boss. And five days later Kelly did exactly that.
With a huge smile on her face and her characteristic three huge steps when she marched on the field, Kelly, 27, followed her big return to Noord -Londs with a huge promising first display, a ball in for Stina Blackstenius to attack, whip in corners and rattle the Dwarsbar.
The next day, her Arsenal teammate Beth Mead withdrew from the English camp because of an injury and Kelly was the first back. Intriguing, Wiegman called Kelly for other players she had previously used on the right wing in the absence of Mead, including City's Laura Blindkilde Brown and Tottenham's Jess Naz, a will of the English boss.
While Kelly had trouble making a big impact of the bank in one of the Nations League matches, especially after he had had half an hour against the world champions, Hope remains for the winger.
Slegers clearly assesses her and if her short cameo is something to start during her second debut for Arsenal, the culture in North Londs is perhaps exactly that she has to revive her career.
Only the time will learn whether this movement will be enough to secure its place on the plane to Switzerland this summer, but one thing is certain: time now seems to be on her side.
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