{"id":294478,"date":"2023-10-19T20:09:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T20:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=294478"},"modified":"2023-10-19T20:09:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T20:09:44","slug":"exclusive-sheffield-united-womens-manager-steps-away-from-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/soccer\/exclusive-sheffield-united-womens-manager-steps-away-from-team\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Sheffield United Women&apos;s manager steps away from team"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>EXCLUSIVE: Sheffield United Women&#8217;s manager steps away from team after a formal complaint about his alleged behaviour, weeks after death of vice-captain Maddy Cusack shook the club<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sheffield United Women&#8217;s boss Jonathan Morgan has stepped away from his role<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It comes after a formal complaint was made about Morgan&#8217;s alleged behaviour<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Listen to the latest episode of Mail Sport&#8217;s podcast &#8216;It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sheffield United are investigating women&#8217;s first team manager Jonathan Morgan after a formal complaint was made about his alleged behaviour.<\/p>\n<p><span>Mail Sport<\/span> can reveal that Morgan has agreed to step away from matches and training while the club looks into issues raised over his conduct.<\/p>\n<p>The manager was not on the touchline for the Blades&#8217; 4-0 defeat at Birmingham, last week&#8217;s Continental League Cup tie with Sunderland and the Blades&#8217; 3-1 victory over London City Lionesses earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant coach Luke Turner has been in charge since Morgan stepped away from his duties. His last match was the 1-0 victory over Lewes in September.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan, who was previously manager of Burnley and Leicester, was appointed Sheffield United boss in February after the departure of Neil Redfearn.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/14\/76659217-12640267-image-m-44_1697548535329.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sheffield United are investigating women&#8217;s first team manager Jonathan Morgan after a formal complaint was made about his alleged behaviour<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/14\/76659163-12640267-image-a-36_1697548450308.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Morgan has stepped away from his role while the club looks into issues raised over his conduct<\/p>\n<p><span>Mail Sport<\/span> understands concerns have been raised about his alleged treatment of certain squad members and that a formal complaint was lodged earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield United and representatives for Morgan did not respond when approached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan spent seven years with Leicester and took the club from the fourth tier to the Women&#8217;s Super League before being dismissed in November 2021.<\/p>\n<p>He was appointed manager of Burnley in May 2022 and went 16 games unbeaten before leaving for Sheffield United earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The last four weeks have been extremely difficult for the club following the passing of vice-captain Maddy Cusack.<\/p>\n<p>Cusack, 27, died at her home address in Derbyshire on September 20. At the time, Derbyshire Police said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding her death.<\/p>\n<p>Cusack, who also worked for the club&#8217;s commercial department as a marketing executive, was Sheffield United&#8217;s longest-serving female player and the first to reach 100 appearances.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/13\/75697875-0-Sheffield_United_midfielder_Maddy_Cusack_has_died_at_the_age_of_-a-25_1697546850529.jpg\" height=\"855\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>It comes after the tragic passing of the Blades&#8217; vice-captain Maddy Cusack back in September\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/17\/13\/76657681-0-image-a-26_1697546853431.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Several tributes were paid to Cusack,\u00a0who also worked for the club&#8217;s commercial department<\/p>\n<p>In a tribute posted on the club&#8217;s official website on September 21 announcing the news of her death, Sheffield United chief executive Stephen Bettis said: &#8216;This is heart-breaking news for everyone at Bramall Lane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Maddy had a unique position of being part of a number of teams at Sheffield United and was popular with everyone that she came into contact with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Her personality and professionalism made her a credit to her family &#8211; she will be sadly missed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;While taking in the news and moving forward, the club will offer as much support as possible to Maddy&#8217;s family, friends and colleagues.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12640267\/Sheffield-United-Women-Maddy-Cusack.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: Sheffield United Women&#8217;s manager steps away from team after a formal complaint about his alleged behaviour, weeks after death of vice-captain Maddy Cusack shook the club Sheffield United Women&#8217;s boss Jonathan Morgan has stepped away from his role It comes after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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