We announced the signing of Olivia Smith from Liverpool on Thursday, and you can now take a behind-the-scenes look at her first day as an Arsenal player. Our cameras followed the Canadian international forward everywhere she went, including checking out her new workplace at the Sobha Realty Training Centre for the first time to put pen to paper on her …
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Olivia Smith was always going to become women’s football’s first £1million player this summer — but nobody was meant to know. Confidentiality was the modus operandi before Smith’s record-breaking £1million ($1.34m) transfer from Liverpool to Arsenal became official on Thursday. The circle of trust was small: Liverpool’s new managing director of women’s football, Andy O’Boyle, drove negotiations from Merseyside, with …
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The Kansas City Chiefs managed to ink franchise-tagged guard Trey Smith to a four-year extension before Tuesday’s deadline. Rather than playing for $23.4 million on the franchise tag, Smith and the Chiefs agreed to a $94 million pact to make him the highest-paid guard in league history. Mike Florio of NBC Sports soon reported the contract terms, potentially keeping Smith …
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