同时，Laura Harvey和西雅图续签了四年长约，她将带队到2020年。
这是她在Hope 和U$$F矛盾爆发后，历次接受采访时做的表态。
她不评价谁对谁错，只是再三强调她把Hope 作为一个“人”来看待，关心她的身心状况，不会追问她“何时可以上场比赛？”
在她肩部手术后，她首先关心的是HOPE的恢复情况，以及“如果继续踢球的话，会对她今后的健康产生什么影响”，她当然也关心下赛季HOPE到底去哪里，是否可以作为一个有效的球员使用，但这些和她的健康相比，都是次要问题。
Harvey还说只要HOPE没退役没转会，她会永远把她作为球队的一员列入名单，因为她的能力、她的敬业、她的职业球员风范，对球队都是积极的影响。
——和Harvey比，U$$F就是渣渣
“i think off the back of that decision [of u$$f firing hope] i’m not sure the part that maybe everybody thought about was, yknow, hope as the person. what affect that was gonna have on her.”
“i think she found that out on the wednesday and we were playing portland on the saturday. so between those days the conversation that me and hope had - and i probably saw her or spoke to her multiple times a day, multiple times a day in that period - was, yknow, ‘are you okay – to be able to put 100% on the field?’”
“we didn’t want to put hope in a position where she felt pressured to come back if she didn’t feel that she was in the best place, whether mentally, physically, to be able to perform.”
“and then after the portland game we spoke quite a lot about, ‘okay you couldn’t- we couldn’t get you there for the portland game, how are you feeling now?’ and i think ultimately the comment or the statement that hope came out with was exactly how it was. there’s nothing around it, it was- she- she was devastated. she was just devastated. and she couldn’t mentally get past that. and i just felt it wasn’t my place, really, or anybody else’s place to tell her that she had to play.”
“and then obviously following that she’s had maaajor shoulder surgery. which she probably could or should maybe have had a long time ago but she’s played through it, played through the pain for a long, long time, so the question of what happens next is a little bit in the balance i think. and it’ll be the same questions that get asked; number one: how’s your shoulder? can you physically do it? and secondly, yknow, where do you wanna go, what do you wanna do? what’s next for you? and that’s always how i’ve been, i’m always gonna be the same. and ultimately having hope and the club at the forefront of all the decision that we make. and i think, that’s why i’ll always have a good relationship with hope, because for me the way i was willing to have a conversation with her was about ‘what do you wanna do? do you wanna play?’ because if hope says she wants to play, she’s been through adversity enough in her career and come through it and and shown unbelievable perfomances but the times she was hesitant around that made me just think ‘i’m not sure she can push through this one, i’m just not sure she can.’ and that’s ultimately where her decision came from i think. the word i always used to everybody was she was devastated. she was just devastated.”
“she [hope] still sees seattle reign as her team and we don’t want that to change. even if it’s not even in a playing capacity, i’d love to keep hope around our club. i think her ability, number one; her attitude, her professionalism around the team, our team, has been unbelievable and the advice and leadership she’s shown, to haley and to all the other players, i think is invaluable. the door’s always open to hope, i think is the best line. butwe’ve just got to be very careful about if it’s the right thing for her ‘cause for me now with the shoulder surgery she’s had it’s number one, can she keep playing on it? and number two, if you do play on it is that gonna affect your later life? because the surgery she’s had is a big one and i think that’s gonna be… whatever, me caring about hope as a person, it’s ‘is that the right thing for her long term?’ so that she after she stops playing she can still lift her arm above her head.. which she hasn’t been able to do for years. so having this surgery was a reason to be able to do that.”
