Ivan Juric was unable to show Southampton’s fortunes round (Oli SCARFF)
Southampton have sacked supervisor Ivan Juric following their relegation from the Premier League, the membership introduced Monday.
Southampton had been condemned to relegation in document time after a 3-1 defeat at Tottenham on Sunday.
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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 offers Southampton, final season’s Championship play-off winners, an undesirable Premier League document, 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 gained just one league match, at Ipswich in February.
Saints have misplaced seven of their previous eight league matches.
Simon Rusk will take cost of the workforce as interim supervisor for the rest of the season and shall be assisted by Adam Lallana.
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“We will affirm that we now have as we speak 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 tricky time and was tasked with making an attempt to enhance a squad in a tough state of affairs.
“Sadly, we’ve not seen performances progress the way in which we had hoped, however we want to thank Ivan and his workers for his or her honesty and exhausting work as they fought towards the chances to try to preserve us up.”
The Saints assertion added: “With relegation to the Championship now confirmed, we consider it is very important give followers, gamers and workers some readability on the long run as we head into a vital summer time.
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“We stay extremely grateful for the continued assist of our followers. Their continued dedication and keenness, regardless of what has been a really powerful season, is exceptional and is appreciated by everybody on the membership.
“Regardless of the challenges that relegation will convey, our objective is to revive a way of delight for them of their workforce and membership as soon as once more.”
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