Manchester Metropolis interim head coach Nick Cushing says he’s excited for the problem as his facet put together to face Chelsea within the Subway Girls’s League Cup ultimate.
Cushing arrives at Manchester Metropolis following the dismissal of head coach Gareth Taylor earlier within the week. The previous New York Metropolis FC supervisor stated he’s ready for the daunting activity forward as he returns to the membership for the primary time since 2020.
“I have been having some actual constructive conversations with with management right here at CFG [City Football Group], and I have been right here a really very long time, so my relationships with the management, I am actually shut with folks right here,” Cushing stated.
The 40-year-old rejoins Man Metropolis after his departure from MLS facet New York Metropolis FC within the closing phases of 2024. The American males’s facet relieved Cushing of his duties following the workforce’s sixth-place end within the 2024 season.
“I used to be having conversations over the time about staying concerned with the group and taking on a brand new position, a training position. I wish to be on the grass teaching and early within the week this chance got here up, and it is a actually good problem for me on that teaching facet.
“I spent seven superb years right here beforehand combating for trophies and attempting to create a workforce that Manchester Metropolis followers may very well be happy with. Going over to New York and representing the group in New York and main the workforce there was a tremendous expertise, a tremendous problem, and developed me in some ways.
“Having the chance to return again for our organisation and try to create one other profitable workforce, try to proceed the good work that is been executed right here. Essentially the most superb factor about our organisation is the folks right here. The group of ladies in there are actually good folks with an actual starvation to proceed to win.”
Cushing might be pressured to leap into the deep finish as Manchester Metropolis journey to Delight Park Stadium this Saturday to face Chelsea within the ultimate of the Subway Girls’s League Cup. Regardless of the problem, the interim head coach believes that he’s well-equipped to face the stress.
“If I mirror on my profession, in 2014 after I took the ladies’s workforce within the WSL, my first recreation was Liverpool, the champions, reside on BT Sport, and I might come from the under-12 boys. So I then went over to New York, and we gained the championship in 2021 and rapidly I used to be head coach in 2022 of the champions. So I feel I have been capable of take these moments in my stride.
“I’ve had some actual good mentors and a few actual good recommendation over time, and I simply had some recommendation earlier than this press convention that was basically go and revel in it, it is a terrific problem. I feel as coaches, we wish to create our groups, and we wish to put together our groups to go in opposition to the perfect. The following 4 video games are the last word problem for our group, so we have to embrace it and assault it.”
After a turbulent run of type within the Girls’s Tremendous League (WSL), Metropolis will now have the possibility so as to add silverware to their trophy cupboard for the primary time because the 2021/22 marketing campaign.
“It could be undoubtedly an achievement within the sense of coming in,” Cushing stated of profitable silverware in his return recreation. “However, it is concerning the group. I stated to the group, my opinion of profitable leagues and trophies and being in profitable positions, it is about getting there. I could not give this group sufficient reward for getting the place they have.
“After all, the league place [fourth] will not be best, and it isn’t the place in all probability we set it out to be firstly and the place we’d actually need it to be at this stage of the season. The fact is, we’re in all 4 competitions, and the Champions League place continues to be achievable. So I am not going to get caught up on it on Saturday, as a result of the following recreation is correct across the nook.”
