Manchester Metropolis have parted firm with head coach Gareth Taylor.
Taylor’s departure comes a day after he guided his aspect to a 2-0 FA Cup quarter-final win in opposition to Aston Villa to arrange a semi-final in opposition to holders Manchester United.
Metropolis sit fourth within the Ladies’s Tremendous League, one level behind third-placed Arsenal having performed one recreation extra, however 12 behind champions Chelsea.
The 52-year-old had been accountable for the membership since 2020 and led Metropolis to an FA Cup win that 12 months and League Cup success in 2022. Below Taylor, Metropolis missed out on the 2023/24 WSL title to Chelsea on objective distinction.
Metropolis tackle Chelsea within the Ladies’s League Cup ultimate on Saturday to start a run of 4 video games in opposition to the undefeated WSL table-toppers in 12 days.
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Nick Cushing has taken interim cost of Man Metropolis Ladies
Ex-Man Metropolis Ladies coach Nick Cushing will succeed Taylor on an interim foundation for the rest of the season.
Sky Sports activities Information understands that Cushing is just not anticipated to stay as Man Metropolis Ladies’s boss past the present season and the membership are anticipated to seek for a brand new supervisor this summer season.
Following his departure from New York Metropolis FC, Cushing sought to guage his subsequent steps in administration outdoors of the Metropolis Soccer Group earlier than Man Metropolis approached him.
It’s understood they had been the one aspect within the girls’s recreation Cushing would have contemplated becoming a member of however his long-term goal stays testing himself with new challenges past a short-term stint at Man Metropolis.
Metropolis clarify Taylor exit
Metropolis have thanked Taylor for his efforts
In a press release from the membership, managing director Charlotte O’Neil stated: “Manchester Metropolis prides itself on competing on the high of the WSL and on its excellent report of qualifying for European competitors.
“Sadly outcomes this season have to this point not reached this excessive normal.
“With six video games of the WSL marketing campaign remaining, we imagine {that a} change of administration will breathe recent life into our bid to make sure qualification for the 2025/26 Ladies’s Champions League.
“We want to place on report our due to Gareth for all of his efforts throughout his a few years at Metropolis. Our FA Cup and League Cup triumphs will stay particular moments within the historical past of this soccer membership.”
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Interim Cushing was Metropolis boss throughout their first WSL season in 2014, main them to their solely title win two years later.
He additionally steered the workforce to an FA Cup and two League Cup successes earlier than departing in 2020 to work in males’s soccer at New York Metropolis FC, the place he had been head coach for the final two seasons earlier than being sacked in November.
Evaluation: Curious timing leaves Man Metropolis with extra issues to resolve
Sky Sports activities’ Laura Hunter:
The best way Gareth Taylor’s Manchester Metropolis tenure has unravelled all feels a bit bizarre. Maybe the appropriate choice however with extraordinarily questionable timing. Two WSL managers – Matt Beard (Liverpool) and Laura Kaminski (Crystal Palace) – acquired the chop in the latest worldwide break, which is definitely much less disruptive than a change 5 days out from a League Cup ultimate?
Metropolis are getting into a decisive interval, one which will probably be outlined by 4 video games in opposition to Chelsea. To beat Sonia Bompastor’s reigning champions as soon as is a large endeavor, however throughout 4 conferences in three distinction competitions will take a monumentally strong and nicely thought-out tactical recreation plan, that may be weeks within the making.
Presumably Taylor had been engaged on concepts together with his gamers. Presumably coaching periods and tactical conferences had been geared in the direction of this actual interval. And now Nick Cushing – who Metropolis followers will not have forgotten left quite abruptly halfway by a season again in January 2020 – has to choose up the baton and dash with it.
Little question outcomes have not been adequate this season. Performances have been a lot much less constant too, whereas the Chloe Kelly debacle (who left on mortgage for Arsenal) felt symptomatic of a bigger downside with Taylor’s dealing with of relationships. However to imagine Cushing can enact an enormous upturn with such little time to do it’s a enormous stretch certainly.
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Highlights of the Ladies’s Tremendous League match between West Ham and Manchester Metropolis
Evaluation: Metropolis have not been adequate below Taylor
Sky Sports activities Information’ Anton Toloui:
“This isn’t a call the membership wished to make given Taylor’s time and standing on the membership however this can be a outcomes enterprise and Manchester Metropolis’s have not been adequate.
“With the workforce on the right track to overlook out on Champions League soccer for a second time in three seasons, it was felt motion needed to be taken.
“Manchester Metropolis did not win the WSL below Taylor’s reign, with only one FA Cup and one League Cup added to the cupboard throughout his virtually 5 years on the membership.
“The membership additionally rebuilt the aspect throughout Taylor’s tenure, permitting big-name gamers together with Keira Walsh, Georgia Stanway and Lucy Bronze to go away to facilitate a change in route below the previous Wales ahead’s tutelage.
“Now Metropolis flip to the one man to teach them to WSL success in Nick Cushing, who was nonetheless a Metropolis Group worker after being fired by their MLS aspect NYCFC in December.
“With 4 video games in three competitions throughout 12 days in opposition to Chelsea arising, beginning with Saturday’s League Cup ultimate, the membership clearly hopes Cushing will rapidly rediscover his knack for profitable massive matches and silverware.”
Man Metropolis Ladies fixtures
- Chelsea (N) Saturday, kick-off 12.15pm, League Cup ultimate
- Chelsea (H) March 19, kick-off 8pm, Champions League quarter-final first leg
- Chelsea (A) March 23, kick-off 2.30pm, Ladies’s Tremendous League
- Chelsea (H) March 27, kick-off 8pm, Champions League quarter-final second leg
- Brighton (A) March 30, kick-off 2pm, Ladies’s Tremendous League