Hello and welcome back to Blue Royalty, a Londonist blue show dedicated to the Chelsea

women's team. We are here today with a special preview episode. Don't normally do these,

but try something out a little bit different because we have a huge match against Manchester

United on Sunday evening. I'm joined as usual by Abdel Abdel Abdel Abdel Abdel Abdel Ab, how's

it going? Good, not too bad. Excited to record this preview and kind of, you know, look at

what we're going to do ahead, but otherwise, good day at work. You know, it's nice to come back

and relax after an exhausting two hours. That's good to hear. And we have got to bring us some

Manchester United perspective, Natalie Barrel. Natalie, how are you doing? I'm doing good. Thanks

for being on. Appreciate it. Thanks for joining us. So we're getting ready for I think the best

fans in the WSL Derby. I think we can all agree on that. But quickly, we've got a bit of

Chelsea news that we're just going to chat through. Jesse Fleming signing a contract extension,

keeping her at the club until the summer of 2025, if a contract was due to expire at the end

of this season. Abdel Abdel Abdel, what do you make of the extension? I think it's very exciting.

Yeah, I know. Super exciting. I think it's definitely one that was needed. I know we've talked about

probably not finding Jesse Fleming's best position just yet, but the potential for what she offers

and what we've seen so far is unreal. And if we're seeing that in a couple of different positions,

whether it's out wide as a 10 or an 8, then I'm excited to see what she does playing in her

natural best position and playing game after game after game. I think there's a hell of a player

in there that I think in the years to come can be ranking in the top three, four of the Ballon

door. I think we have a world-class midfielder on our hands and to get her extended for a couple

of more seasons, I think, is fantastic news. Yeah, and intriguing one, the two-year extension,

a little bit shorter than some of the other extensions we've seen. I don't know how much to

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