""I turned them down at first, not because I wasn't grateful, but because I didn't feel ready and needed some more playing time at Doncaster. I also didn't want to abandon them just because we'd been relegated. Luckily Chelsea came in again later on, when I'd achieved everything I could with Doncaster and knew it was time. I had to ring my mum and dad to tell them I was moving to London!""
""[It was] really tough, Bright tells FourFourTwo. We had to play a whole season knowing that we were relegated. The decision was nothing to do with the football on the pitch City came in and that was that.""
""Clearly I was rubbish as a striker, so I got chucked back! [Laughs], she continues. I was a striker when I went on loan to Leeds at 18 and scored loads of goals there. Then I went back to Doncaster, moved into midfield, and started switching from midfield to centre-back over and over again and at Chelsea too. I think I was 23 when I sat down with Emma Hayes and was like, Right, what is my position? I want to be the world's best in a position, what is it?' She said centre-back and I was like, OK, centre-back'.""
Millie Bright joined Chelsea in 2014 and has since accumulated eight league titles with the club. She began her career at Doncaster Belles and experienced an administrative relegation at 19 when Manchester City took their WSL place, a decision that remained upsetting. Chelsea approached after that relegation, but Bright initially declined to seek more playing time and out of loyalty to Doncaster. She eventually moved when she felt she had achieved all she could there and informed her parents of the move to London. Bright progressed from striker to midfield to centre-back, settling on centre-back after discussing position with Emma Hayes.
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