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The 23-year-old returned to Cobham final week raring to go as our first week of pre-season coaching acquired underway. That she did so sporting a reproduction of our 1998 dwelling shirt didn’t go unnoticed.

Hampton says the Blues trustworthy can resolve whether or not or not she is Correct Chels. However because the England worldwide explains, she was solely persevering with a glance that had served her properly all through the summer season.

‘I’m simply blue by and thru,’ she says. ‘I believed if I couldn’t put on my retro shirt for the primary day of pre-season when might I put on it?

‘I took it on vacation with me and was sporting it across the streets of Spain, the streets of Crete, in every single place! I adore it. Blue is certainly my color.’

With the primary week of pre-season accomplished, Hampton is delighted to be again working with the Chelsea teammates she celebrated a lot success with throughout her debut marketing campaign.

Hampton, now a Girls’s Tremendous League winner, is blissful to get again to enterprise, though with just a few laughs and jokes sprinkled into the extraordinary periods on the grass.

‘I used to be simply excited to see everybody once more,’ she explains. ‘It’s not the identical simply doing all your pre-season programme at dwelling alone.

‘Once you are available in and see everybody, it provides you that further little bit of power to crack on once more. Being round everybody, you’ll be able to see how collectively are already even simply from per week again.

‘I like coming again and seeing everybody. I are available in and have amusing and joke with individuals, and attempt to deliver enjoyment off the pitch. It’s good to have amusing and ease everybody in!’

Hampton is somebody who units excessive expectations of herself. She has at all times sought to drive her personal requirements, and this pre-season has been no totally different.

And with new head coach Sonia Bompastor on the helm, the shot-stopper is much more decided to take her recreation to the subsequent stage.

‘The conversations I’ve had with Sonia, Cammi [Abily] and Theo [Rivrin] thus far – you undoubtedly know their requirements are excessive, in order that matches how I really feel,’ Hampton added. ‘It pushes me to be higher and it’ll push everybody within the crew to be higher.

‘You need to hit the bottom operating and present what you are able to do. I need to concentrate on myself, play the fashion Sonia desires us to play, and construct again up these connections with the crew on the pitch.

‘If that places me in a great spot then it places me in a great spot. I simply need to get pleasure from what I do. I’ve at all times stated that after I’m having fun with what I do this’s when I’m going to play my greatest.’

It isn’t solely Bompastor, Abily and Rivrin who’re new to Chelsea’s teaching employees. Hampton has additionally been working beneath newly-appointed goalkeeping coach Seb Brown and his assistant Dan Smith.

Whereas Smith is new to the membership, Brown is anyone Hampton is aware of properly having moved to the ladies’s crew completely after working with the WSL academy – a job which additionally noticed him help former coach Stuart Searle.

‘Seb is nice,’ Hampton stated. ‘He was with us final 12 months and has stepped as much as be our head goalkeeper coach now.

‘I labored carefully with him final 12 months, particularly through the first 4 months after I wasn’t concerned as a lot within the squad. I used to be creating so much with Seb on the aspect then, so we’ve acquired a superb understanding of one another.

‘With Dan and the expertise he has, I’m certain he’ll make an ideal addition to our goalkeeping division. He’s already becoming in properly and there have been just a few laughs and jokes.

‘We’re all simply pushing one another to be the very best and serving to everybody enhance.’

Hampton and the remainder of the squad will showcase their onerous work beneath Bompastor and the brand new employees once we journey on our pre-season tour of the USA.

The primary recreation of our new head coach’s period will see us tackle NJ/NY Gotham on the Pink Bull Enviornment, earlier than we face Arsenal in Washington DC, taking our London derby Stateside.

‘It’ll be a superb time for us to implement the fashion of play,’ Hampton stated. ‘It’s throughout these two video games once we can get to know one another like that so much higher.

‘We are able to construct these connections. It’ll be two robust video games towards high opponents. It’s undoubtedly going to assist us go in the precise path and ensure we’re able to kick on when the season begins.