The manager is adjusting to the role and having to handle the club’s colossal leap which has tested resources on the pitchCarla Ward’s Sheffield United face Aston Villa on the opening day of the Women’s Championship on Sunday but Villa are a very different beast to the one United finished eight points above last year.
Villa have stepped up their investment, taking on full-time players and shaping themselves for a promotion push. United, on a much smaller budget, have also strengthened. Four of their eight signings have come from WSL football, while Naomi Hartley joins from Championship champions
Manchester United, who were promoted together with Tottenham. Perhaps the biggest change, though, is in their manager.