KHADIJA SHAW has silverware in her sights as she looks to put injury frustration behind her and spearhead a new-look Manchester City this season.

After a disappointing fourth-placed finish in the Women’s Super League last season, 12 months after they missed out on the title on goal difference, this has been a summer of change at the Academy Stadium.

Former Denmark boss Andree Jeglertz is in as head coach, Sydney Lohmann and Iman Beney headline the new signings but established stars Chloe Kelly, Jill Roord and Laia Aleixandri have left.

The club acted after a third trophyless season, and ending that wait for silverware is Shaw’s primary goal for the new campaign.

“We’ve got to start somewhere,” the Jamaica striker told the PA news agency. “We’ve got to be realistic. It’s a new coach, it’s a new style of play, a lot of things have changed.

“But that’s on one side. The other side, with all that being said, we’ve got to win. Winning a trophy, particularly the league, would be our biggest target, for sure.”

Key for City will be keeping their star striker fit after an injury-disrupted 2024-25 season. Despite being restricted to only 14 WSL appearances, Shaw still scored 12 goals to share the Golden Boot award with Alessia Russo, 12 months after winning it outright with 21 goals in 18.

After seeing her previous campaign curtailed by a fractured foot, the muscular injuries which plagued Shaw last term were particularly frustrating.

“Just feeling and knowing that I was not going to be able to help the team definitely put me in a difficult place mentally,” she said.

“I had to try to reflect and do all the things that I know I can do, so coming into pre-season, I’m in a better place,” she said.

“The past is the past and we can only look forward to the future. I’m in a much better place, closer to where I was the year before. I have my confidence back.”

City could not have a harder start to the WSL campaign, with an opening-day trip to face champions Chelsea, who won a sixth consecutive title in Sonia Bompastor’s first season in charge.

“When I look at Chelsea, I wouldn’t say they do anything special — they just always find a way to win,” Shaw said. “They always somehow get it over the line. I think that’s credit to them because you don’t look back and say, ‘Oh, I remember this player,’ you remember that they won.

“They might not have played the best football, but they find a way to win and that’s what we want to do. Yes we play really good football but at times we aren’t as consistent and that’s something we’re definitely building towards.”

Jeglertz, with his emphasis on free-flowing attacking football, is now in charge of that process.

“From the day he came in, he made it known what he was about,” Shaw said. “He told us he’s going to try his best to get us to the level where we need to be, and to push us individually and collectively…

“For me, I just want to play football and I can adjust to any environment. Sometimes change can be good because over the past years we’ve been doing the same things.

“I’m definitely excited about what he wants and what we can do.”