{"id":3739,"date":"2026-06-17T09:36:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:36:34","slug":"tottenham-sign-aston-villa-and-scotland-forward-kirsty-hanson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=3739","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham sign Aston Villa and Scotland forward Kirsty Hanson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Tottenham have signed Scotland forward Kirsty Hanson from Aston Villa for an undisclosed fee.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hanson was impressive in the Women&#8217;s Super League last season, scoring 12 goals in 22 matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Only Manchester City&#8217;s Khadija Shaw and Arsenal&#8217;s Alessia Russo scored more than Hanson, who was named Villa&#8217;s player of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also scooped up WSL Football&#8217;s goal of the season award for her strike against West Ham, and it is a major blow for Villa to lose her this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m absolutely delighted. It\u2019s an exciting time to be a part of this club,&#8221; said Hanson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m ready for a new challenge and I always want to be better every single day. Martin Ho, the staff and the players are at such an exciting point &#8211; and I want to be a part of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old had a year remaining on her contract at Villa and it is unknown what fee Tottenham have agreed to sign her for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has scored six goals in 48 Scotland appearances and will reunite with Spurs manager Ho, whom she worked with at Manchester United while he was assistant coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know Kirsty well from working with her previously and I know the qualities she brings both as a player and as a person,&#8221; said Ho.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She has strong experience in the league, international experience with Scotland and a clear hunger to keep pushing her game forward. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are delighted she has chosen to come to Tottenham Hotspur and I&#8217;m excited to work with her again in an environment where we believe she can continue to develop, contribute and become an important player for the club.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tottenham had a strong campaign in 2025-26, finishing fifth in the table in Ho&#8217;s first season in charge, and they have already shown ambition in the transfer market.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham have signed Scotland forward Kirsty Hanson from Aston Villa for an undisclosed fee. Hanson was impressive in the Women&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}