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Olivia Smith after winning the PFA Young Player of the Year award during the PFA Awards 2025 at Manchester Opera House. Picture date: Tuesday August 19, 2025. (Photo by Martin Rickett/PA Images via Getty Images) PA Images via Getty Images The day she lost her position as the world’s most expensive female player, Olivia Smith – the first to move for a million pounds – admits she never worried about her price. This week, Smith collected the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) award for the best Young Player of the Year last season. Her eye-catching performances for Liverpool earned her the illustrious accolade and in doing so, she became the first foreign woman to ever be voted in by her fellow professionals. Smith had already made the move last month from Liverpool to Arsenal with the new European club champions paying a transfer fee of $1.36 million (£1 million). She therefore became the first woman in the English game to move for over a million British pounds. LONDON COLNEY, ENGLAND – JULY 15: Olivia Smith signs for Arsenal at Sobha Realty Training Centre on July 15, 2025 in London Colney, England. (Photo by David Price/Arsenal FC via Getty Images) Arsenal FC via Getty Images Earlier today, Orlando Pride broke that record by signing Jacqueline Ovalle from Tigres in Mexico for a reported $1.5 million. Smith had held the position for a mere 35 days but there will be never be another first within the English game. The transfer in January of the United States defender Naomi Girma made her the first million dollar player but amounted to less in sterling. The one million pound threshold was first crossed in the men’s game 46 years ago when Trevor Francis moved from Birmingham City to Nottingham Forest. That move came 25 years before…

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