Liverpool Girls are reportedly hopeful of touchdown Canadian teenager Olivia Smith in a membership file switch charge as they search to construct on their fourth-place end.
It was solely final summer time that the Reds set their new switch file, parting inside the area of £100,000 to land striker Sophie Roman Haug from Roma.
The switch proved a hit with seven league targets in her debut marketing campaign as Matt Beard’s facet defied expectations to complete fourth – an 18-point turnaround from the season prior.
And now the membership wish to construct from a place of power, which has seen them flip to Smith, who can play as each an attacking midfielder and a ahead.
The 19-year-old has a launch clause reported to be round £210,000 and, in response to BBC Sport, Liverpool have made her “their precedence summer time goal” and are “assured” of securing her signature.
With negotiations ongoing for a number of months, the Reds are positively positioned so as to add the thrilling younger expertise to their squad from Sporting this summer time.
A world at simply 15!
Smith signed her first deal, a three-year contract, with Sporting in 2023 and was subsequently voted Participant of the Yr and Younger Participant of the Season in Liga BPI after a 13-goal marketing campaign.
At simply 15 years and 94 days, Smith made her debut for Canada’s senior group and was named of their World Cup squad final 12 months – indicators that time to her thrilling expertise.
In February, Smith took half within the Girls’s Gold Cup with Canada and there she scored her first senior purpose and earned the award of one of the best younger participant.
Possessing loads of potential to interrupt the sport open within the attacking half, Smith seems a transparent signing for the current and the longer term, one that’s wanting vivid for the ladies’s facet.
Melwood turned their coaching house final 12 months, making a long-needed place to name house, and from subsequent season on they’ll play their house video games on the St Helens Stadium in Merseyside.
