Manchester United Women’s latest signing Julia Zigiotti Olme has set out some lofty ambitions for her time at the Leigh Sports Village.
Wealth of experience
The Red Devils completed a deal for the midfielder a couple of days ago after finalising an agreement with Bayern Munich.
The defensive midfielder has Champions League experience at Bayern and has also played three seasons in England with Brighton and Hove Albion.
The Swede has represented her country 48 times, including at this summer’s Euro 2025.
She certainly brings a winner’s mentality, having been crowned a champion of the Frauen-Bundesliga and also the DFB-Pokal last season during her time in Bavaria.
The 27-year-old sat down with the club website after her move and she has had some exciting words for fans of the club.
Big ambitions
When asked on what she wanted to achieve this season she boldly claimed, “win the WSL.”
Elaborating further she added, “I want to help this team to go [to the] Champions League, to win the top games, to win the WSL and to help the team get to a better place and work on this project.”
The Red Devils finished third last season, four points behind Arsenal and a whopping 16 points behind champions Chelsea.
Olme was also clearly excited about returning to England as she waxed lyrical over the quality of the league.
She claimed, “I think that England is the best league there is. There’s so many top-class players here, in every team, and the league just keeps growing every year, so I’m very excited to be back and show myself in it.”
Describing what type of player she is she added, “I would say I’m a hard-working midfielder, able to defend and secure the backline. But I also like to set up players and get in good positions on the pitch and be a little controlling there.”
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Alex Browne
Alex is a huge Manchester United fan, inspired by greats of his homeland such as George Best, Harry Gregg and Norman Whiteside. Proud owner of such niche shirts such as Kleberson, Eric Djemba-Djemba and Gary Neville. Grew up pretending to be Ruud van Nistelrooy and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in the back garden, with little success.
