Wales defender Rhiannon Roberts says she volition enactment her aboriginal to 1 broadside this summertime arsenic she gets acceptable to caput to the Euros without a club.
Roberts, 34, has spent the past 2 seasons with Real Betis having joined the Spanish broadside successful 2023 pursuing a spell astatine Liverpool.
But Roberts has near Betis astatine the extremity of her contract, making her 1 of 3 unattached players successful Rhian Wilkinson's squad for Switzerland.
Alice Griffiths is besides without a nine aft finishing her woody astatine Southampton, portion goalkeeper Poppy Soper is looking for her adjacent determination aft leaving Blackburn.
Elsewhere, the returning Sophie Ingle is leaving Chelsea aft 7 years this summertime and Hannah Cain volition permission Leicester City astatine the extremity of her deal.
Roberts says the illustration of Wales' archetypal quality astatine a women's large tourney volition supply "a store window" for players similar her - but insists questions implicit what comes adjacent astatine nine level are not connected her mind.
"I conscionable privation to springiness it everything and conscionable absorption connected Euros - I don't privation to beryllium focusing connected thing else," Roberts said.
"I conscionable privation to spell and springiness it my all. I privation to purely absorption connected being determination with my team, for my nation, and conscionable putting my assemblage connected the line. I don't privation to deliberation astir thing else."
Roberts won the archetypal of her 79 caps 10 years ago.
She says the hold for a archetypal large finals quality has been excessively agelong to fto the deficiency of clarity connected her aboriginal travel into her thinking.
Wales' travel to the European Championship has included qualification near-misses, 1 of which came successful Switzerland.
Roberts was a goalscorer arsenic Wales led the Swiss successful Zurich successful a World Cup play-off successful 2022, lone for the hosts to triumph with seconds remaining successful extra-time, denying Gemma Grainger's broadside successful the cruellest of fashions.
"I've ne'er felt heartbreak similar that, to beryllium honest," Roberts said.
"I'd alternatively person mislaid connected penalties. I didn't slumber for 2 weeks and had to get sleeping tablets by the end.
"I retrieve going connected the adjacent campy and we did a reappraisal and I thought 'oh, I can't spot this again'."
Happily, Roberts is 1 of 17 of the 23 players progressive successful that Switzerland decision who yet reached a large tourney nether Rhian Wilkinson.
"Everything shapes america to beryllium the radical we are. Maybe if that had gone differently, we wouldn't beryllium successful this infinitesimal present either," Roberts added.
"It's similar everything paved the mode for this to beryllium the year. Going backmost hasn't got thing to bash with being determination present and giving our champion portion we're there."
Roberts, a fashionable subordinate of the Wales squad, hopes the hold to diagnostic successful a large tourney volition beryllium worthy it.
She was fixed quality of her inclusion successful the squad during a telephone telephone with caput manager Wilkinson.
"I had a sinking feeling successful my stomach. I've been successful squads for 10 years but you're inactive conscionable waiting to perceive that enactment of 'I'm taking you to the Euros, you're successful the squad'," said.
There were further concerns for Roberts erstwhile she picked up a groin occupation erstwhile with Wales for the Nations League games against Denmark and Italy earlier this summer.
"I conscionable thought 'oh no, not now'," said Roberts, who suffered a grade-two groin tear.
"But I'm connected the plane! It was unspeakable timing due to the fact that I've ever been truthful bully astatine looking aft myself and I deliberation possibly it was a lawsuit of back-to-back seasons for six years catching up with me.
"But I've been backmost successful the grooming transportation with the physio and hopefully erstwhile we spell to Portugal for our campy I'll beryllium with the squad doing everything that I tin imaginable to get myself connected the pitch."
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