Former Liverpool Women chief Matte Beard says he has “maybe three months” until he has to consider jobs out of football.
Beard left his role with the Reds in February – the second time he has managed to the club – after having previously had spell with Chelsea Women, West Ham Women and Bristol City Women among others.
It has left the 47-year-old search for a new job, and he has talked about how difficult it has been for him and his family without his constant income. Beard has previously said he may have to return to a previous job as a real estate agent to make ends meet.
Showed at the latest pitch of pod podcast with Jordan Nobbs and Nikita Parris, Beard was asked how long he should consider a job outside of football.
“I may have three months or so,” he replied. “At the end of the day I have a family that I need to support. My agent has had a few calls about certain roles, so I’m convinced to come at the end of the season there will be some options.
“But if I need to do something else, I have to do something else because I have to give, but hopefully it will not.
“I love to coach and control, so I will continue to do it, whether it is here or abroad.
“Would I consider as a sports director role or director of football? Potentially, but I am still only 47. I still have a lot to offer, I just finished my pro license and got my diploma from LMA in football management.
Beard moved to NWSL after his first stint at Liverpool between 2013 and 2015, before spending a year of Boston Breakers.
“I’m open to promoting my horizons and maybe my education. Going to America taught me so much, especially another style of play, so I’m open to what’s next.
“I had to try something else. If you look at my resume before I left Liverpool, I would have won every trophy in the domestic game.
“Go to America, I probably chose the hardest job you could ever choose go to Boston Breakers.
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“I think they had won two matches in something like two seasons and I went into another league with a completely different style. If you look at NWSL now, it’s still pretty transition, but there’s much more quality in the league.
“It gets more competitive and it gets better and better every year. When I was there, the standard was quite bad, but it taught me so much.
“If you look at my time at Liverpool we had won back-to-back league titles and we had a tough third season but I learned so much because how did I motivate myself? We were beaten every week at Boston and I learned so much from that side and went back [to Liverpool] Was the best thing, I think.
“If you look at what we achieved in the three years, we were promoted at the first attempt in the championship, ended the seventh WSL the following year and then the fourth last year.
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“It was an amazing journey. I’m disappointed that I never finished it, but I’ve got a good relationship with the people of the club. Sometimes it’s just football.
“You are only as good as your last results and your last job, and it is very rare for someone to inherit a team that they have inherited in Liverpool. I was always confident despite the amount of damage I had this year we would finish in the top five or top six and it will happen just because of the quality they got there, but you always got something to prove.
“If I went into a job and thought, ‘oh, I’ve done it, I’ve done that’ – you can’t do it. You really have to make sure you’ve got some goals and they’re realistic.
“I definitely got something to prove, 100 percent, and I can’t wait to prove it.”