Arsenal to break world-record fee by signing Liverpool’s Olivia Smith for £1m

The Merseyside outfit are set to receive five times what they paid for Smith 12 months ago. File picture: Jess Hornby/Getty Images

Olivia Smith is poised to become the world’s first women’s player to break the £1m transfer barrier after Liverpool accepted a world-record offer from Arsenal for the 20-year-old Canada forward.

According to sources, the fee agreed between Arsenal and Liverpool exceeds the US$1.1m dollars paid by Chelsea to sign the United States centre-back Naomi Girma in January, which set a new women’s world record at the time.