Ex-Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro has appeared at a tribunal hearing for her constructive dismissal case against the Premier League champions. The 42-year-old left London South Employment Tribunal in Croydon after six hours on Monday without comment. Her lawyer, Mary O’Rourke QC, did not confirm if there had been any settlement and said the proceedings were “confidential”. Carneiro is suing Chelsea for breach of contract and constructive dismissal. Chelsea also refused to comment. The Premier League club filed their defence in the tribunal hearing in December. There is a separate but connected legal claim against former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho for alleged discrimination.  Carneiro was dropped from first-team duties after then boss Mourinho criticised her and first-team physio Jon Fearn for going on to the pitch to treat Eden Hazard during the 2-2 draw with Swansea on the opening day of the season. Chelsea were temporarily down to nine men as a result, and afterwards Mourinho called Carneiro and Fearn “impulsive and naive”. Carneiro did not appear on the bench again for first-team duties and later parted company with the club.

Nigeria international striker Asisat Oshoala has been granted a UK work permit, clearing the path for her to complete a switch to Arsenal Ladies from rivals Liverpool Ladies. Arsenal Ladies’ bid was “reluctantly accepted” by their fellow Women’s Super League One side in January. The Gunners activated a release clause in Oshoala’s contract, subject to her gaining a work permit for 2016. Oshoala, 21, was named the BBC’s Women’s Footballer of the Year in 2015. She is presently in Zurich as a panellist at the FIFA Women’s Football and Leadership Conference 2016 and is expected in London on Wednesday to finalise her switch to the two-time FA Women’s Super League champions.Oshoala joined Liverpool ahead of the 2015 WSL campaign but injury blighted her time at the club and she only scored three goals in 12 league outings last season. The first player from Africa to compete in the Women’s Super League, Oshoala burst into the limelight when she emerged as the leading scorer at the 2014 Under-20 World Cup in Canada and was voted the tournament’s best player. Her performances led Nigeria to the final, where they were narrowly beaten by Germany, and she was also a major influence in the senior Nigeria team, who won a record seventh African Women’s Championship in October 2014. That ensured their qualification for last summer’s Women’s World Cup in Canada, where Oshoala scored her only goal of the competition in a thrilling 3-3 opening match against Sweden. But the first player to win the BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year award, voted for by football fans around the world, could not stop the African champions from exiting the tournament in the group stage.