View: Kit Graham must make the step up for Tottenham Women next season
Tottenham Women’s forward Kit Graham has yet to live up to expectations since her arrival in North London.
Besides scoring Tottenham Women’s first-ever goal at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, they’re have been few moments for Graham to write home about since joining the club in 2019.
This is despite arriving in the WSL with a fierce goalscoring record to her name in the lower divisions of the women’s game.
Graham started her career at the age of nine with Charlton, where she spent 14 years, scoring on more than 200 occasions. This goalscoring record showed no signs of slowing down as she worked her way up the leagues.
During the 2017/18 season, Graham was the top scorer in the FA Women’s Premier League Southern Division, hitting 47 goals in 35 games as Charlton stormed to promotion to the FA Women’s Championship.
The step-up in level did not phase Graham as she went on to score 16 goals in 19 appearances during her first season in the Championship where she was named player of the year for the 2018/19 campaign. This brilliance earned her a move to Spurs and the WSL in August 2019.
However, upon arriving in the WSL, the 27-year-old’s flow of goals significantly slowed down. Graham could only manage four goals in all competitions during her debut season in Tottenham colours, despite making 19 appearances.
In 2021/22 it was just two in 11 – a disappointing return once again despite one of her goals making history as the first ever to be scored by a women’s player in Spurs’ new home ground.
Last season the forward was plagued with injury issues and managed just nine appearances, scoring once, as the club narrowly avoided relegation from the WSL.
Graham is certainly a player of quality with an eye for goal, but she needs to begin to show that on a consistent basis at the top level. This is now her fifth season with the club and fans will be hoping for a lot more than what they have seen thus far.
There is no doubt Graham is capable and the club’s recent tweet (26 June) shows they clearly have faith – now it is time for that faith to be repaid.
In other Tottenham news, Spurs’ Jamaican duo are getting set for action at the Women’s World Cup.