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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Suzanne Wrack

Taylor calls for patience after summer of change at Manchester City Women

The Manchester City Women manager, Gareth Taylor, alongside new signing Laia Aleixandri.
The Manchester City Women manager, Gareth Taylor, alongside new signing Laia Aleixandri. Photograph: Manchester City FC

Gareth Taylor says he understands the concern of Manchester City fans after a summer of change and has urged them to be patient as his new players get to grips with the league and setup.

“Yeah, I can understand it,” the manager says. “I would ask them to be patient because we’ve really invested in the future with these [new] players. There’s going to naturally be a fair-sized turnover at some point when you look at the nature of the group that left. They had given us really good service and three of the players had retired. With that, we had to be on the front foot with our recruitment and we were.”

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