Man City boss Andree Jeglertz on the future of star striker Bunny Shaw

“I think right now Bunny Shaw is our player, and she’s here to compete with us and do everything she can this week that we have left of the season. What happens after that is a discussion, not for me to talk about. It’s more for Therese and other people that are communicating with her,” he added.

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With Champions League football on the cards again next campaign, after being knocked out in the quarter-finals by Chelsea this season, a player of Shaw’s calibre and with her instincts in front of goal would be a powerful asset for City.

Jeglertz acknowledged that the team might “look different” next season, but his mission to get the best out of the squad would be the same.

“My job is to work with the players I have. And that was my first thing I said when I started in this club, that we have this squad, how do I optimise each player?” he said.

“How do we play until we get the maximum out of Yui Hasegawa, Viv Miedema, Bunny Shaw, or Lauren Hemp and how do we play football so we get the best out of them, which we have done this year, getting the best out of a lot of players.

“Next year, it will look different. It might look different. Some players are coming in, some players are leaving, then we have another squad, or we have exactly the same squad when we start in July, but I don’t know,” he continued.

“We’ll go into the Champions League next year, so no matter what, we definitely need to look into what we need to add to the squad and how we do that. But right now, I have a fantastic squad with so many great players that I definitely would like to continue working with in these coming weeks, and again, let’s see where we are in July,” he concluded.

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