Beard loved large success with Liverpool throughout two spells with the membership – first profitable back-to-back WSL titles, earlier than overseeing their promotion from the second tier in 2022.
However with Liverpool sitting seventh and 9 factors above backside facet Crystal Palace, the membership made the daring resolution to half methods final week.
Liverpool felt they might not afford to stagnate with golf equipment within the WSL rising ever-stronger and Whiteley acquired off to the right begin with a 1-0 victory over Palace.
She admits it’s now an “necessary interval” for Liverpool as they method a crossroads, unsure on what the longer term might be.
“We have now been a bit bit stop-start up till now. It is necessary for us to construct some consistency and end the season strongly,” stated Whiteley.
“It is necessary to present us a platform to work on. It is also necessary for the followers. We need to produce soccer that they take pleasure in watching and need to get behind.
“I feel we are able to try this within the subsequent couple of months. There’s heaps to play for.”
Liverpool’s recruitment course of is already beneath method as they give the impression of being to nominate a everlasting supervisor however Whiteley stated she’s going to “throw her title within the hat”.
She has climbed up the ranks at Liverpool and was beforehand the top coach of the under-21s, earlier than her first interim spell in cost in 2021.
She expects to be in momentary cost once more till the top of the season however might Whiteley observe within the footsteps of Sunday’s opponent Renee Slegers, who proved her price in an interim spell at Arsenal earlier than being supplied the everlasting job?
“It is positively a job I am considering and can put in for. However that recruitment course of goes to 1 facet and I’ve to deal with the day-to-day,” stated Whiteley.
“From my interim interval beforehand, the most important factor I took away was that I used to be able to doing the job.
“I’m in a much better place having had the time with Matt [Beard] and dealing beneath him.
“When these alternatives come about, it’s important to rise up and present precisely what you’re able to. It is actually necessary to do this as a feminine coach too.”
