The most successful English player in Germany right now is at Bayern Munich and, no, it’s not Harry Kane.
Stanway joined Bayern from Manchester City in the summer of 2022. It was a move that did not come without risks. The midfielder had been with City since the age of 16 and was signing for a club that had lost five of the last six league titles to Wolfsburg.
But the tide is turning in Germany - and Stanway has played a huge role in that. Her form in the second half of this season has been phenomenal and she has stepped up at a time when her team needed her most.
But like most players who returned from last summer’s World Cup, Stanway suffered from fatigue in earlier parts of the season. England reaching the meant players had a very limited break between the tournament ending and the domestic season re-starting. Several clubs were affected, with Wolfsburg and Arsenal suffering shock exits in the Champions League qualifying stage.
Bayern themselves endured a disappointing European campaign, with the club failing to reach the knockout stage – a 1-0 defeat against Ajax before Christmas proved crucial.
But Bayern have not lost a competitive game since then. It is perhaps no coincidence that their form has coincided with Stanway playing some of her best football.
The midfielder used the winter break to recharge and has been firing on all cylinders since.
‘Post World Cup, I was OK because I just wanted to keep going forward and hoping that time would be the healer,’ Stanway told DW Sports at the weekend.
‘It only hit me around December. My body and my mind were not right. I was tired the whole time, I'd never slept so much in my life. The performances I was giving weren't up to the standard I wanted them to be.
‘I knew that the
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