The dollar amount catches the eye.

Gotham FC introduced Jaedyn Shaw as the NWSL club’s latest jewel on Thursday, making official their record-setting $1.25 million transfer to land the 20-year-old attacking midfielder from the North Carolina Courage.

“It’s the club showing that they’re investing in me and they see my potential and they see my value, and that’s something that I’m really grateful for,” Shaw said. “I want to make sure that I live up to that.”

In a sport in which seven-figure transfers are a new, rapidly proliferating normal on both sides of the ocean (see: Naomi Girma and Alyssa Thompson to Chelsea, Olivia Smith to Arsenal, Lizbeth Ovalle to Orlando Pride), the price tag was a statement of intent, which Gotham was happy to trumpet in its press release:

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