Capital Nourishment (Niamh Charles Interview)

Three years after leaving Liverpool and the only club she knew, Niamh Charles reflects on a move that reshaped her. She has grown up, lived away from home for the first time, and been rebuilt as a full-back after identifying as an attacker, a shift she describes as gradual rather than a decision she could simply make. Emma Hayes told her it was a process and to trust her. She is candid about missing the EURO squad while being close enough to feel it, and about processing that by focusing on pre-season. She remembers a Champions League final in which Barcelona took her apart out wide, and being so nervous at her first Chelsea session that she sat in the car afterwards dreading doing it again.