At the point when Chelsea Women open their season against Tottenham Hotspur Women before a full Stamford Bridge this Sunday, one ex-Blues player will watch with blended sentiments.
Lizzie Durack quit as a Chelsea goalkeeper this mid year to pursue another money related profession in the City of London, and huge numbers of her companions will be in real life as the FA Women's Super League commences.
What's more, while they have been partaking in pre-season preparing, she has been getting her feet under the table at Goldman Sachs in their Prime Brokerage Division, working with well off fence stock investments customers.
So why - at 25 years old - has she stopped one of England's top groups, with ostensibly the greatest long periods of her playing profession still in front of her?
'Significant choice'
"I settled on my choice for a ton of reasons, and clearly it was a troublesome one to make." says Durack, who has a degree in financial matters and neurobiology, and had recently served an entry level position at Goldman Sachs when she was an understudy.
"The primary one was - I had gone to a point in my football vocation where I had accomplished a specific sum that I was content with. So as to make the following stride and be truly outstanding in the game, it would have taken five years or something like that - in the event that I was regularly going to be blessed enough to really accomplish that top level."
During the 2018-19 season, Durack ended up behind two different goalkeepers in the Chelsea pecking request, and before the part of the bargain there were four goalkeepers at the club competing for spots.
"I needed to settle on this important choice, and accept the acknowledgment that open doors for a youthful goalkeeper are difficult to find," she says.
"I had devoted myself completely to football since my youngsters. It got so I was thinking about whether I should begin a money related vocation further a very long time down the line, or simply state 'it has been an extraordinary time, presently is the minute I ought to put my energies into the universe of fund'."