Analyzing the 2025 NWSL free agents you need to know
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
With 2025 NWSL free agents officially being able to negotiate with new clubs as of September 1st, it was a good time for the Full Time podcast to do a deep dive on the players set to hit the market.
Whether you're a general manager in training or a first-time free agency enjoyer, Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan break down all the key concepts, and things you need to know. Then, the duo takes a look back at the first two years of NWSL free agency and what might look different in 2025.
Tamerra and Meg also threw out some of the marquee names fans need to be watching and then were joined on the show by The Athletic's Jeff Rueter who offered up some of his data analysis to highlight some of the secret superstars that are ready to make a splash in 2025 free agency.
All that, plus the latest talking points on the Ballon D'or nominations, a wild record-breaking weekend in the NWSL, and the podcast's favorite transfers of the league's summer window that just closed last week.
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HOSTS: Tamerra Griffin, Meg Linehan
GUEST: Jeff Rueter
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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Articles mentioned on the podcast:
NWSL free agency watchlist: Standouts who could capitalize on career-best seasons
Midge Purce and Sophie Schmidt are free agents – here’s what that means
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| 0:00.0 | I've missed this music. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome back to full time with Meg Linnehan. |
| 0:19.0 | My name is Tamara Griffin. I am fresh, rested, hydrated, well-read, back from vacation. |
| 0:26.1 | So excited to get back to the show. |
| 0:28.3 | Because with a little bit of social media scrolling I did while I was gone, it feels like I've missed a lot. |
| 0:33.8 | And I am very grateful to unpack some of that and get into what more we have to look forward |
| 0:38.8 | to this season in the NWSL with my esteemed co-host Meg Linnehan. Meg, hello, it's so good to see you |
| 0:45.4 | again. I know. It's been, just between Olympics, vacation, it feels like it has been a year, |
| 0:53.1 | but that's also like an end of boost all time. |
| 0:55.0 | Seriously. |
| 0:55.7 | Right? Like, we're in a whole new season. Like September, it's technically fall in this part |
| 1:00.0 | of the hemisphere. It's cold. It's cold in Vermont. We're getting there. |
| 1:03.7 | Yeah, I love that. I'm very excited. |
| 1:05.9 | Meg has a really posh. Yeah, posh is the word. Cream cable knit sweater with some stripes, like framing |
| 1:14.8 | the V, it is so chic. Very, very welcoming for the season. I try. I'm just, I'm so, I'm like |
| 1:21.9 | willing it to be fall. It gets up to like 75 during the day, but it's a crispy, nice, 50 degrees when you wake up. |
| 1:28.3 | So I'm just embracing it. |
| 1:30.7 | But I want to hear about vacation. |
| 1:32.7 | I want to hear about the pasta. |
| 1:34.0 | Oh, the pasta. |
| 1:35.6 | I don't know if I can have pasta that is not fresh made anymore. |
| 1:41.2 | After this. |
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