File picture of Ivan Juric© AFP
Southampton have sacked supervisor Ivan Juric following their relegation from the Premier League, the membership introduced Monday. Southampton had been condemned to relegation in report time after a 3-1 defeat at Tottenham on Sunday. Juric’s backside of the desk facet have misplaced 25 of their 31 top-flight video games in a wretched marketing campaign. Relegation with seven fixtures left provides Southampton, final season’s Championship play-off winners, an undesirable Premier League report, surpassing Derby and Huddersfield’s relegations with six video games left in 2008 and 2019 respectively. Juric took over from Russell Martin in December, with Southampton already deep in hassle, however the 49-year-old received just one league match, at Ipswich in February. Saints have misplaced seven of their previous eight league matches.
“We can verify that now we have right this moment reached an settlement with our males’s first-team supervisor, Ivan Juric, to finish his spell on the membership,” mentioned a Southampton assertion.
“Ivan got here to Southampton at a troublesome time and was tasked with making an attempt to enhance a squad in a tough scenario.
“Unfortunately, we’ve not seen performances progress the best way we had hoped, however we wish to thank Ivan and his employees for his or her honesty and arduous work as they fought towards the chances to attempt to maintain us up.”
Simon Rusk will take cost of the staff as interim supervisor for the rest of the season and can be assisted by Adam Lallana.
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