Fara Williams

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OTB Football · Lioness Legend Fara Williams | "Arsenal should have done more to keep Katie McCabe!" · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

So maybe if we put more in academy levels, it becomes more normal.

And then obviously at the elite end, when it's there, it's not alien to them.

Yeah, absolutely that.

I think the Airbnb player accommodation fund, one million over three years, and that's spread between both Barclays WSL1 and Barclays WSL2 teams.

And they can basically apply for this funding during the summer transfer window and obviously the winter transfer window.

And basically the funding is there for players, as you say, for clubs that are probably a little bit further behind in terms of their growth and development as a club where the funds aren't available through the club.

This is where Airbnb come into it and you can apply for it as a player and it gives you enough funding to settle yourself down into a club for at least the first few months until you find something more permanent.

Yeah, I'm sure that they're hopeful of that.

But I think, as you said, it's a slow process.

I think in recent years, we've got a lot of different fundings in and probably not being used in the right way in areas that actually is needed.

And I think this Airbnb player funding is needed more than probably anything in terms of that.

You know, salaries are different, locations, in terms of the cost of living in different locations, very difficult.

And not every club, you know,

do have that player fund to, you know, certainly put them up.

So, I think this allows players to one pick their own sort of accommodation quite early on.

Airbnb, you know, we're all different.

Some people, you know, want different things in terms of that being comfortable in their

For me, it equals out the access across both Barclays WSL 1 and Barclays WSL 2 because the transparency between top and the bottom of Barclays WSL 2 is so big.

The gap is still so big and this equals that out.

So players, whether you're signing for either of those leagues, there's an opportunity for you to get that funding to make that living space a lot more comfortable.

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