Liverpool Women in talks to appoint Gareth Taylor as head coach
Discussions between former Manchester City boss Taylor and Liverpool are ongoing, but nothing has yet been signed.
Taylor, 52, would be the permanent replacement for Matt Beard, who was sacked in February and replaced on an interim basis by Amber Whiteley, who will remain at Liverpool as assistant coach.
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Liverpool finished seventh in the Women's Super League (WSL) in 2024-25, the same position as when Beard left, after a fourth-place finish the previous campaign.
Despite adding Olivia Smith to the squad from Sporting CP for a club-record fee (£210,000), Liverpool were not able to replicate their previous WSL success. The Merseyside club matched their previous term's number of league defeats within the first 10 games but did manage to win three of their last eight matches after Whiteley took over.
Liverpool were promoted back to the WSL under Beard in 2022 and finished seventh in their first season back. Beard described their rise to fourth in the following campaign as the side having 'overperformed' in relation to their budget when compared with the WSL's traditional top four — Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Arsenal.
Taylor spent four and a half years with City before parting ways with the club in March, with the side one point off the Champions League places and 12 points off league leaders Chelsea. The Englishman won the FA Cup in 2020 and the League Cup two years later with the Manchester club but could not lead them to a WSL title, finishing second in 2021 and 2024. Under Taylor, City only finished outside the top three — and qualification for the Champions League — once, in 2022-23.
Beard, meanwhile, has since been appointed as head coach at third-tier side Burnley.
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