Olivia Smith has played just 1,578 minutes of top-flight football, but that was enough for Arsenal. In just one season at Liverpool, the 20-year-old convinced the Gunners she was good enough for them to make her the first £1million player in the history of women’s football.

The new benchmark in women’s football would surpass the £900,000 ($1.1 million) Chelsea paid when signing Naomi Girma from the San Diego Wave in January. Smith’s four-year deal highlights the increase in spending in women’s football with transfer records regularly broken.