FeatureFactfile: Get to know new LFC Women signing Kirsty 'Ini' Maclean

The Scotland international completed her switch from Rangers on Monday, to become the Reds' first addition of the summer.

Get to know the 20-year-old a little better below...

Her football-themed nickname. Maclean is known as 'Ini' to her teammates, a nod to how her style of play is seen as similar to that of Spanish great Andres Iniesta. It was first coined at Rangers and has travelled with her to the Scotland set-up. Explaining the backstory, Maclean recalled: "I think we were on the bus coming back from the Champions League and Kirsty Howat was raging because there's two Kirstys now and she was like, 'I don't want to be the one with the nickname.' I was the one that got the nickname."

An extremely bright prospect. Maclean's talent is highlighted with the individual honours and nominations she has already received in her promising career. She has been up for PFA Scotland Women's Young Player of the Year twice (in 2022-23 and 2023-24). In 2023-24 alone, Maclean was in the running for PFA Players' Player of the Year as well, won Rangers' Player of the Year prize and made it into the Scottish Women's Premier League Team of the Year. She kept her spot in that XI last season.

A seasoned trophy-lifter already. Maclean's breakthrough at Rangers came during the 2021-22 season, when they lifted the league title. She quickly got a taste for silverware. Maclean departs Rangers with one league winner's medal, two for the Scottish Cup and another pair for the Premier League Cup.

A regular for Scotland. Maclean has represented her country from U15 level right through to the top. Her senior bow came in July 2023 as a second-half substitute in a 3-0 victory over Northern Ireland. She has 10 caps to her name to date, the most recent of which was earned in June.

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Liverpool will be an entirely new experience. Maclean knows nothing other than playing for Rangers at club level. She joined the Glasgow-based outfit at the age of nine and began playing for their senior team when she was 16. Maclean racked up more than a century of appearances.

A girl of many talents. A younger Maclean was the stadium announcer for Scotland's World Cup qualifier with Albania back in 2017 at St Mirren Park. Footage of her announcing the teams and scorers was shown in a team meeting when she was first called up by her country. "I wanted to sink into the ground at that point!" she said.