Yeah, absolutely. Izzie Breen did well. I think she’s benefited from being with us for large parts of last season, does pretty much all her pre-season with us. It’s a player that we’re excited about where she can go in the future, as we are with a few of the other girls who started today. They’re obviously really young, we’re talking about some 15-, 16-year-old players. They handled themselves really well. I think the more experienced players really helped them, which is good. So, yeah, the future is promising. But if we’re expecting these players to be stepping straight into the WSL, that’s a big push and that’s a big level. It’s a big step, but they didn’t look out of place and they’ll certainly grow from this.
**On reaching his first anniversary as Liverpool head coach…**
It’s mad, it’s 12 months. It feels like in some respects it has flown by, in other respects it has been a bit of a slog. I think where we are now, it feels miles better, it really feels different to what we came into last year. I think that’s just continuing to work behind the scenes to make things better, to improve the standards around everywhere and obviously to improve what we do on the pitch. There were certainly signs in that second half of the season that we started to click in a sense of the team we want to become. I think there’s a nucleus of players who’ve been here from the start of that journey a year ago and I think what they’re trying to do is really admirable. I think the way we’ve changed the style, the way we’ve changed the identity has been testament to them and how they’ve adapted to that and dealt with it.
Of course, we want to continue to strive and get better and improve on what we did last season. Fingers crossed, we will do. I think it’s going to be a tough challenge. You can see there’s a lot of growth in the women’s game and a lot of growth in terms of the financial side and the spends that have been going on, but we’re doing ours in a progressive way that’s trying to do it in the appropriate way, where it’s seeing probably something that others can’t see, signing players that probably others might not be looking at that we can see real growth in. We’ve done that well, coupled with the players that we’ve had in the building for a while, the likes of Fisky, Jenna Clark, Kappy \[Cornelia Kapocs\]. I think that’s really helpful.
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