![]() It was a respectable, mid-table finish but the Liverpool boss - speaking after a narrow final-day defeat to Manchester United - conceded the club needed to "strive for more" and work to break into the top six. ![]() With Matt Beard - the mastermind behind the club’s two previous title wins - back at the helm, the Reds finished seventh in the top flight. Three years on, Liverpool has just completed its first season back in the WSL. ![]() READ MORE: Dominik Szoboszlai 'plane tracked' amid Liverpool transfer deadline as Roberto Firmino agrees move READ MORE: Liverpool 'to meet clause' for Dominik Szoboszlai transfer as Jürgen Klopp will love $77m 'star' Meanwhile, a number of former players lamented the club’s downfall, with ex-striker Courtney Sweetman-Kirk noting Liverpool Women had suffered from a "slow but definite decline" in investment. The fact that the women’s team’s exile to the second tier coincided with Liverpool’s first Premier League title win in 30 years was, at the time, dubbed "painfully ironic" by shadow sports minister Alison McGovern. In those six short years, a lack of necessary investment saw the Reds go from the best women’s team in the country to a blemish on what had been an historic, title-winning campaign for Jürgen Klopp’s men. Just six years later, the Reds were relegated to the Championship. In 2014, Liverpool usurped Arsenal as the Women’s Super League ‘Team To Beat’ and claimed its second consecutive domestic title. ![]()
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