Bompastor has 'clear vision' to win Champions League

Chelsea head Sonia Bompastor says she wants to thief nan nine return nan "next step" and has a clear imagination of really to triumph nan Champions League.

Bompastor is nan only female to person won nan title arsenic some a subordinate and a manager.

She captained Lyon to back-to-back triumphs successful 2011 and 2012, and won nan title arsenic their caput coach successful 2021.

The 1 trophy that eluded erstwhile leader Emma Hayes pinch Chelsea was nan Champions League and Bompastor said she thrives connected nan unit of helping nan nine triumph it for nan first time.

"If we don't execute that extremity I will beryllium nan 1 you request to blame. I americium good pinch that," Bompastor told BBC Radio 5 Live's Women's Football Weekly podcast.

"Every time nan imagination successful my caput is really clear. I conscionable came present to triumph pinch nan team, pinch nan squad and pinch nan nine each title.

"I cognize nan nine already won a batch of titles and had specified a awesome occurrence successful past years. I conscionable want to thief them make nan adjacent step."

Chelsea will statesman their Champions League run successful October and person automatically qualified for nan group stages aft winning nan WSL past season.

Bompastor said her successor Hayes has near Chelsea successful a "great place" and believes nan nine person each nan devices to spell 1 measurement further and triumph a European title.

"They were truthful adjacent past play to being successful nan last of nan Champions League," she added. "I will effort to bring my acquisition and winning mentality to make nan adjacent step, but location is nary unit connected that.

"If you want to beryllium honest, erstwhile you travel to this nine you get everything you request to perform. The nine has each nan infrastructures we request to perform, they person nan players, they person nan value successful nan staff."

Bompastor was nether statement pinch Lyon until 2025 and said it was a large determination to time off nan nine wherever she had truthful overmuch occurrence arsenic some a subordinate and a manager.

"I really emotion to beryllium challenged," she said. "It's been portion of my life erstwhile I was a subordinate and moreover erstwhile I’m a coach. I request to beryllium challenged each day, each week.

"This is why I emotion doing this job. Coming to Chelsea is simply a large move, but this is simply a spot wherever I wanted to beryllium because I could consciousness nan ambition from nan sporting board and each nan club. I conscionable felt this is nan spot wherever I want to be."