Tottenham Hotspur Women announced that Kit Graham, Amy James-Turner, Luana Buhler, Josefine Rybrink and Charli Grant will depart the club at the end of the 2025-26 season.
All these players have had their moments in the sun for Spurs, but I don’t think any of this is hugely surprising. Kit has hardly featured under Martin Ho and went on loan to Ipswich Town in January. Charli Grant and Josefine Rybrink haven’t featured much recently either, and Amy James-Turner and Luana Buhler haven’t featured at all
for personal reasons and injury respectively. It’s still a decent number of the squad to let go, and we can only hope Spurs are working hard to secure their replacements in the summer.
I want to spend some extra time talking about Kit because she was one of my favorite players to watch when I first started following Spurs Women. It got me right in the feels when Kit spoke about how much she enjoyed journeying through the WSL with Ashleigh Neville in her goodbye interview (which you can read here).
Kit joined (somewhat contentiously) from Charlton 7 years ago as an “unnamed trialist”. She grew to be a core part of the Rehanne Skinner side that finished 5th in the WS until a devastating ACL injury in November that kept her out for over a year. Before the injury, she looked like one of the most creative players in the league. When she came back, Spurs had lost a great deal of that team – Rachel Williams gone to United, Maéva Clemaron back to Switzerland, and Ria Percival also on the sidelines with an ACL injury. Spurs were in the midst of a winless streak and a relegation scrap, and there wasn’t much time or space for her to get back up to speed.
Vilahamn used her as a defensive midfielder at times, notably in our iconic North London Derby win against Arsenal, but then Kit did her ACL again immediately before Vilahamn’s second season, and never really featured much for Spurs again. Kit brought us a lot of joy in those early WSL days, but I know a lot of us will always wonder where she and Spurs would be without those knee injuries. Luckily, she’s currently rebounding on loan at Ipswich, who she has helped guide to safety in the WSL2.
So here’s wishing Kit, Amy, Luana, Josefine and Charli all the best for the future, we absolutely loved having you all!
