Gareth Taylor In Talks With Liverpool To Take Over As Manager Of Wsl Club

Liverpool person held talks pinch nan erstwhile Manchester City caput coach Gareth Taylor astir their managerial vacancy.

The Merseyside nine person been searching for a caller head since nan departure of Matt Beard successful February, pinch Amber Whiteley placed successful interim complaint for nan remainder of past season. Liverpool vanished seventh of 12 successful nan WSL table.

Taylor was a Women’s FA Cup winner pinch Manchester City successful 2020 and besides led them to the League Cup successful 2022, earlier a second-placed decorativeness successful nan convention successful 2024. The 52-year-old had antecedently coached wrong Manchester City’s academy.

The erstwhile Wales striker spent conscionable nether 5 years astatine nan helm astatine Manchester City, earlier being sacked successful March, conscionable days earlier this year’s League Cup final. During his playing career, he represented a scope of clubs including Sheffield United, Nottingham Forest and Manchester City.

Liverpool are two-time erstwhile WSL winners, having lifted nan title doubly successful succession during Beard’s first spell successful complaint of nan nine successful 2013 and 2014, but they person not challenged for nan title for a decade. They were relegated down to nan 2nd tier successful 2020 but won promotion backmost to nan apical formation nether Beard successful 2022 and secured an awesome fourth-placed decorativeness successful 2024, and they were FA Cup quarter-finalists successful that aforesaid year.

The Merseyside nine were not nan only WSL broadside searching for a caller caput coach this summer. Tottenham person appointed nan Englishman Martin Ho, while Manchester City opted to prosecute nan Swedish-born coach of nan Denmark women’s nationalist side, Andree Jeglertz, who will return complete astatine Manchester City aft Euro 2025. In WSL 2, Southampton person appointed nan erstwhile Blackburn coach Simon Parker, Crystal Palace person hired nan erstwhile Rangers head Jo Potter and Bristol City person appointed nan erstwhile Manchester United adjunct coach, Charlotte Healy.

Manchester City person signed nan Germany world Sydney Lohmann, taxable to world clearance and a activity visa. The 25-year-old arrives from Bayern Munich and has signed a three-year deal. She had been pinch Bayern since 2016 and won 4 Bundesliga titles during her clip astatine nan club.

“I person a really affirmative emotion present astatine Manchester City,” she told nan nine website. “I’ve ever had nan thought to playing overseas astatine immoderate constituent successful my profession and I conscionable had nan emotion that this twelvemonth was nan correct clip to do that.

“I’m really thankful for nan clip astatine Bayern Munich and I’m happy that I gained those experiences, but I deliberation ever erstwhile you spell location else, a large measurement for illustration that, it’s ever bully for your individual growth.”