On The Move: Jen Beattie

Jen Beattie, who has joined Manchester City from Montpellier, says the club’s vision for women’s football and its training facilities are second to none, and that she has genuinely never felt this welcome anywhere. She knew Steph Houghton from her Arsenal days and was struck, talking to the manager about his plan and the move to a new stadium, by a clear sense of where the club was headed. City’s philosophy of attractive attacking football is something she feels she can contribute to, and she hopes her international experience and time playing abroad will help support younger players coming into the first team. On the title she will not be drawn, calling the league’s competitiveness one of its most interesting features and impossible to call.