Southampton sack manager Juric after Premier League relegation
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Southampton have sacked manager Ivan Juric following their relegation from the Premier League, the club announced yesterday.
Southampton were condemned to relegation in record time after a 3-1 defeat at Tottenham on Sun-day.
Juric’s bottom of the table side have lost 25 of their 31 topflight games in a wretched campaign.
Relegation with seven fixtures left gives Southampton, last season’s Championship play-off winners, an unwanted Premier League record, surpassing Derby and Huddersfield’s relegations with six games left in 2008 and 2019 respectively.
Juric took over from Russell Martin in December, with Southampton already deep in trouble, but the 49-year-old won only one league match, at Ipswich in February.
Saints have lost seven of their past eight league matches. Simon Rusk will take charge of the team as interim manager for the remainder of the season and will be assisted by Adam Lallana.
“We can confirm that we have today reached an agreement with our men’s first-team manager, Ivan Juric, to end his spell at the club,” said a Southampton statement.
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