Emma Hayes reveals she spoke to Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp after deleting her social media accounts... and worries 'nastiness' in women's football is getting too similar to the men's game

Emma Hayes revealed she’d spoken to Liverpool leader Jurgen Klopp aft deleting her societal media past week arsenic nan Chelsea leader slammed nan ‘ridiculous expectations’ connected modern time managers.

Hayes, who has been regularly progressive connected societal media this season, took down her Instagram and X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, accounts aft her broadside were beaten by Liverpool.

Hayes was asked astir nan pressures that travel pinch her role, some successful shot and much wide successful nan women’s game, and whether it had played a domiciled successful deleting her profiles this week.

The 47-year-old said location is simply a level of ‘nastiness’ and ‘trolling’ creeping into nan women’s crippled and warned it risks replicating nan antagonistic broadside of men’s football.

‘I had a chat pinch Jurgen Klopp astir it this week,’ Hayes said successful response.

‘I deliberation it’s ridiculous what everybody expects of a shot manager. We’re quality beings. We person lives. This isn’t astir thing other than my opinion, getting you batch paid for tomorrow.

‘Because of that, possibly we’ve mislaid a small spot of show around, I don’t know, nan things that I deliberation go important. Everybody’s nether pressure, everybody’s sewage to get headlines. Everybody’s sewage to drawback content. I deliberation for shot managers we’re successful an intolerable position.

‘Cause each day, we’re successful a spot where, nary matter what we say, it will beryllium turned into thing that gets you guys paid and astatine nan aforesaid time, puts america successful a position wherever we’re conscionable pieces of meat.

‘I won’t miss it, for sure. Of people I person to do property and media and there’s tons of astonishing things that travel pinch it.

‘What I’ve learned is, nan measurement of maltreatment you person to tolerate is unacceptable and nan dangers of wherever nan women’s crippled is going is that, and this by nan measurement is really nan players consciousness too, nan measurement of trolling and nan measurement of nastiness that is coming successful our game.

‘That’s why I say, it’s getting for illustration nan men’s game. We mightiness person to judge that but conjecture what will happen? There will beryllium an moreover bigger region betwixt everything we do pinch you guys and for me, that’s nan sad point that’s leaving nan game.’

Hayes besides warned that nan women’s crippled risks losing much female managers aft Aston Villa leader Carla Ward announced she would beryllium stepping down from her domiciled astatine nan extremity of nan play to walk much clip pinch her family.

‘I don’t wish it [management] connected anyone for nan astir part,’ Hayes said.

‘The pressures, nan expectations are done nan roof. I deliberation she [Ward] doesn't person nan media engagements I have, truthful she gets distant lightly there. But, I deliberation a early for women successful coaching is to person co-head coaches. Women coaching team, possibly 2 mums, I don’t cognize a Rachel Yankey and a Jayne Ludlow to springiness you bully examples. I deliberation nan only measurement you’re going to support women successful nan crippled is to create situations that are different and they do it good successful America. There’s often husband-wife teams, aliases co-head coaches for this reason. I deliberation it’s important. But I’m not judge anyone really cares to beryllium rather frank. I deliberation nary 1 heavy down really cares whether there’s going to beryllium women coaching astatine nan top.

‘I could spot it wholly disappearing. One 100 percent. But I deliberation we person to bespeak connected that arsenic a whole. Because I deliberation nan women’s crippled is going successful precisely nan aforesaid guidance arsenic nan men’s game. There is of people affirmative areas but I deliberation there’s a batch of negatives to it too.’