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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