If you move from one behemoth of a London club to another, especially when they’re the fiercest of foes, it’s inevitable enough that the fans you’re leaving behind won’t take kindly to your career decision. Such has been Katie McCabe’s fate since it was announced earlier this week that she was joining Chelsea after a decade with Arsenal. How did the Arsenal faithful take the news? Not great. If the most heated of the verdicts on her choice of new employers were to be repeated here, it would just be a string of asterisks. “Traitor” was among the kinder of the slurs, “she’ll never be welcome again at the Emirates” another of the more, well, measured ones. All of which prompted McCabe’s mother, Sharon, to take to social media to condemn the abuse her daughter has been receiving, while the Irish captain’s father, Gary, has also had his say. The gist of both their arguments is that this one is on Arsenal. Back in January, they said, the club told McCabe that they would not be renewing her contract, which expires at the end of the month, their chief reasoning being that they wanted to lower the age profile of their squad – McCabe turned 30 last September. But after she completed one of her finest-ever seasons for them, marked by her name in the WSL team of the year, Arsenal had a change of heart and offered her a one-year contract. By then, though, as she was entitled to do, she had spoken to Chelsea, who offered her a three-year deal with an option for a fourth. This will be the final big contract of her career, so that proposal was irresistible. It’s unlikely that her salary will hit the €500,000 levels Sam Kerr earned at Chelsea, making her the highest-paid player in the WSL, but she’ll earn a hefty enough sum, particularly when no transfer fee was involved. And Chelsea had to fight off interest from the likes of newly crowned WSL champions Manchester City and French champions Lyon, so they’d have had to be generous with their offer.Marissa Sheva, Katie McCabe and Anna Patten.