Juric leaves Southampton as worst Prem boss EVER with ex-England star and current player part of new management team
IVAN JURIC has left Southampton following the club’s relegation from the Premier League. The Saints became the earliest team ever to be relegated from England‘s top flight after Sunday’s 3-1 defeat at Tottenham. GettyIvan Juric has left Southampton after 107 days in charge[/caption] RexThe Saints were relegated from the Prem after Sunday’s 3-1 defeat at Tottenham[/caption] GettyAdam Lallana will become a player-coach for the rest of the season and assist Simon Rusk[/caption] The club are slumped at the bottom of the table on just ten points and risk setting the record for the lowest tally in Premier League history. The Croatian departs St Mary’s less than 24 hours after club’s immediate return to the Championship was confirmed. Assistant coach Simon Rusk will take the team until the end of the season and current midfielder Adam Lallana will assist him as a player-coach. Former England star Lallana – who won the Prem with Liverpool in 2020 – returned to St Mary’s on a one-year contract as a free agent last summer. The Saints’ statement read: “Ivan came to Southampton at a tough time and was tasked with trying to improve a squad in a difficult situation. “Unfortunately, we haven’t seen performances progress the way we had hoped, but we would like to thank Ivan and his staff for their honesty and hard work as they fought against the odds to try and keep us up. “With relegation now confirmed, we believe it is important to give fans, players and staff some clarity on the future as we head into a very important summer. “The process of finding a new manager to lead us as we look to secure an immediate return to the Premier League has now begun and is being led by Group Technical Director Johannes Spors. CASINO SPECIAL – BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM £10 DEPOSITS “We remain incredibly grateful for the ongoing support of our fans. Their continued dedication and passion, despite what has been a very tough season, is remarkable and is appreciated by everyone at the club.” Despite the challenges that relegation will bring, our goal is to restore a sense of pride for them in their team and club once again Juric signed an 18 month deal when he took over from sacked Russell Martin on December 21. His contract had a break clause which would be reviewed at the end of the season. That means his 107-day spell in charge is the 11th-shortest managerial stint in the Premier League era, just one day more than Claudio Ranieri at Fulham in 2018-19. Incredibly, Juric has picked up just 0.29 points per game during his nightmare stint in charge on the south coast. And that is the lowest average for any manager in Premier League history to oversee ten or more matches. The Southampton players were told on Monday morning, with Juric’s backroom staff also set to leave the club, according to Sky Sports. Settlement talks for both Juric and his staff are ongoing. Juric oversaw just two victories — an FA Cup third-round win over Championship side Swansea and the league win at Ipswich. He lost 13 of his 16 games as the newly promoted side were relegated in record time, with seven games still remaining. Their relegation in GW31 means they beat the record previously jointly held by Ipswich and Derby County. The latter sides relegation’s were confirmed with six matches left to play in 1994-95 and 2007-08 respectively. Southampton could yet finish on the lowest-ever points total in the Prem, as their total of ten so far is one less than Derby in 2008. The club also beat more Championship teams this season (three), than Prem sides – with EFL wins over Stoke and Cardiff either side of the Swansea one. When the final whistle went at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Juric walked onto the pitch and stared across at the corner where the away fans were gathered. On being applauded by Saints fans, he said: “For me, this is something completely new, a new experience. “I said to the players they have to be really thankful that they have fans like this. “It is something incredible the way they love their team even though we were relegated. “They really deserve much more. It’s another type of culture [to Italy]. “They show love in this moment. It is a great thing in English culture, Southampton culture.” RexJuric lost 13 of his 16 games as the newly promoted side[/caption] RexThe south coast club have won just two of their 31 league games this season[/caption] Juric didn’t address his exit after the relegation game and instead hinted at wanting to stay. He added: “If we take the long road to come back here, I am ready. “We have lots of young players, talented players. They are good but lack experience. “The gap is huge but from this moment the players can grow up and improve and be ready for the Premier League; this is my idea.” The south coast club have won just two of t
IVAN JURIC has left Southampton following the club’s relegation from the Premier League.
The Saints became the earliest team ever to be relegated from England‘s top flight after Sunday’s 3-1 defeat at Tottenham.
The club are slumped at the bottom of the table on just ten points and risk setting the record for the lowest tally in Premier League history.
The Croatian departs St Mary’s less than 24 hours after club’s immediate return to the Championship was confirmed.
Assistant coach Simon Rusk will take the team until the end of the season and current midfielder Adam Lallana will assist him as a player-coach.
Former England star Lallana – who won the Prem with Liverpool in 2020 – returned to St Mary’s on a one-year contract as a free agent last summer.
The Saints’ statement read: “Ivan came to Southampton at a tough time and was tasked with trying to improve a squad in a difficult situation.
“Unfortunately, we haven’t seen performances progress the way we had hoped, but we would like to thank Ivan and his staff for their honesty and hard work as they fought against the odds to try and keep us up.
“With relegation now confirmed, we believe it is important to give fans, players and staff some clarity on the future as we head into a very important summer.
“The process of finding a new manager to lead us as we look to secure an immediate return to the Premier League has now begun and is being led by Group Technical Director Johannes Spors.
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“We remain incredibly grateful for the ongoing support of our fans. Their continued dedication and passion, despite what has been a very tough season, is remarkable and is appreciated by everyone at the club.”
Despite the challenges that relegation will bring, our goal is to restore a sense of pride for them in their team and club once again
Juric signed an 18 month deal when he took over from sacked Russell Martin on December 21.
His contract had a break clause which would be reviewed at the end of the season.
That means his 107-day spell in charge is the 11th-shortest managerial stint in the Premier League era, just one day more than Claudio Ranieri at Fulham in 2018-19.
Incredibly, Juric has picked up just 0.29 points per game during his nightmare stint in charge on the south coast.
And that is the lowest average for any manager in Premier League history to oversee ten or more matches.
The Southampton players were told on Monday morning, with Juric’s backroom staff also set to leave the club, according to Sky Sports.
Settlement talks for both Juric and his staff are ongoing.
Juric oversaw just two victories — an FA Cup third-round win over Championship side Swansea and the league win at Ipswich.
He lost 13 of his 16 games as the newly promoted side were relegated in record time, with seven games still remaining.
Their relegation in GW31 means they beat the record previously jointly held by Ipswich and Derby County.
The latter sides relegation’s were confirmed with six matches left to play in 1994-95 and 2007-08 respectively.
Southampton could yet finish on the lowest-ever points total in the Prem, as their total of ten so far is one less than Derby in 2008.
The club also beat more Championship teams this season (three), than Prem sides – with EFL wins over Stoke and Cardiff either side of the Swansea one.
When the final whistle went at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Juric walked onto the pitch and stared across at the corner where the away fans were gathered.
On being applauded by Saints fans, he said: “For me, this is something completely new, a new experience.
“I said to the players they have to be really thankful that they have fans like this.
“It is something incredible the way they love their team even though we were relegated.
“They really deserve much more. It’s another type of culture [to Italy].
“They show love in this moment. It is a great thing in English culture, Southampton culture.”
Juric didn’t address his exit after the relegation game and instead hinted at wanting to stay.
He added: “If we take the long road to come back here, I am ready.
“We have lots of young players, talented players. They are good but lack experience.
“The gap is huge but from this moment the players can grow up and improve and be ready for the Premier League; this is my idea.”
The south coast club have won just two of their 31 league games this season, conceding 73 goals despite signing England international Aaron Ramsdale.
Juric – who was sacked by Roma after a dismal six-week spell in November 2024 – hit out the club’s lack of recruitment as well.
He said: “Recruitment is everything in football. We have a lot of talented young players, but with not many games in the Premier League.
“What I noticed most in three or four months here is the completely different physicality between us and the other teams in the league.
“Now is the moment to understand the mistakes the club made in the last three or four years and start to create something really good.”
The Saints are the third team to lose as many as 25 of their first 31 games of a top-flight campaign, after Sunderland in 2005-06 and Sheffield United in 2020-21 (both also 25).
It has been quite the contrast to last season, when a 22-match unbeaten run in the Championship helped aid their successful bid for promotion to the Prem via a play-off final win over Leeds at Wembley.
In three full seasons under the ownership of Sport Republic, Southampton have been relegated, promoted and relegated again.
