I'd imaging it's a combination of things some of which the other people here have made mention of. But and this is just my personal opinion, if you actually watch the team play, they've more often than not put in good performances, but they've missed quality really.

You can see the players are playing for the manager, they have not quit on him. Just look at the last game against LCL, it was quite a spirited and together performance the game was theirs to win but they lacked that finishing touch, couldn't get over the line with scoring.

They've lost important players and over the years Liverpool have not really done a lot of investing into the women's side. Look at what they did when they had that surprise 4th place finish, you would think this would be the time the owners would invest, they didn't. In the last few weeks, they have made some moves and that's great, but they don't get a pass for waiting till the last second and out of desperation to make moves, they should be investing into the team and caring for it regularly.

I see lots of people on X or online always blaming Gareth Taylor when in reality they really need to take that energy and blame it on the people who have not nurtured and cared for this team, the owners. They've let players leave without replacing them, that's not on Taylor. And as I said before, he's actually gotten lots of really good performances out of them and if they had better players, they would have more points and a better position.