Bristol City Women outline ‘maverick’ plan to sell their best players
The club want a girl in every England youth team by 2027 and hope to bring in six-figure fees for their young talents as they did with Naomi Layzell
Bristol City have outlined a plan to become “the destination of choice” for England’s most talented young women’s players’ and drive revenue through player sales, in a new and unique-looking women’s club strategy for the next three years.
The Women’s Championship club, founding members of the Women’s Super League in 2011, say they want to inspire their community by providing a pathway to play for England. They believe that recent rises in transfer fees in the global women’s game will make their philosophy of developing youngsters and selling them on a feasible model for the first time in women’s football’s.