Man Metropolis supervisor Taylor indicators new one-year deal

Manchester Metropolis supervisor Gareth Taylor has signed a one-year contract extension with the Ladies’s Tremendous League membership.

Metropolis completed fourth within the WSL final season.

“I’m very completely happy to have the ability to decide to Metropolis for one more season, and 2023-24 is one which I’m so enthusiastic about,” stated 50-year-old Taylor.

Taylor, who gained the FA Cup in 2020 and League Cup in 2022 with Metropolis, was underneath strain at first of final season after his facet misplaced their first two WSL video games and had been crushed by Actual Madrid in Champions League qualifying.

“We now have been in a transitional interval over the previous 12 months, and the ladies’s sport has modified a lot throughout my three years in cost,” stated Taylor, who performed for Metropolis’s males’s facet between 1998 and 2001, and who additionally featured for Bristol Rovers, Crystal Palace, Sheffield United and Burnley.

“We had been lucky to win trophies in every of my first two seasons, and though we haven’t been profitable on that entrance this previous 12 months, the delight I’ve taken has come in several varieties.

“I’ve actually felt that it has been so satisfying when it comes to the place the workforce is at, the place I feel that they’ll go and what they’ll obtain for this soccer membership.

“I do know that there’s strain on us to succeed, however I take pleasure in that – I’ve all the time challenged myself all through my profession and that’s now extra essential than ever as a coach.”