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Manchester City boss Andree Jeglertz says he is still hopeful that Bunny Shaw will sign a new contract despite heavy links to a departure.

Shaw is expected to leave the recently crowned Women’s Super League champions City when her contract expires at the end of the season. 

Sky Sports News reported this week that after months of cordial talks over a potential new contract, Shaw is understood to want to explore her other options.

There is believed to be interest in the striker from Chelsea among other clubs, including from the USA.

Asked about Shaw, who was also on course to win the Golden boot, Jeglertz said: 

“I still hope she’s signing a new contract for Manchester City, definitely. 

“But that’s more of a discussion for Therese and for people in the club you’d like to have that resolved as soon as possible.

I think we right now are the most thing we banish all is our player, and she is here to compete with us and do everything she can these weeks that we have left of the season and what happens after that is a discussion not for me to talk about. It’s more for Therese and other people that is communicating with her and so on. So we’ll see.”

Pressed further about whether City can afford to lose a player of her calibre, Jeglertz added: 

“It’s not my place to comment that I think that my job is to work with the players I have.

“The first thing I said when I started in this club was that we have this quad. How do I optimise each player? How do we play do we get maximum out of Hasegawa, Viv Miedema, 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 the same squad when we start in July. 

“But I don’t know. I don’t know how that looks when we’re starting in July, but when we start there, no matter what, I will do everything I can to play a way where we get maximum out of the players, and I would like to have the best players in my squad, and we’ll see where we are in July.”