Women’s football, the business, is on the rise. There will be ups and downs, anomalies and backward steps, but the overall trajectory is upwards.
In March, Racheal Kundananji’s move from Madrid CFF to Bay FC for £685,000 broke the record for the most expensive transfer fee in women’s football, the latest high mark of a record being superseded with such increasing frequency that the first £1m transfer does not seem far away.