Ivan Juric leaves Southampton after Premier League relegation confirmed | Soccer Information

Ivan Juric has left Southampton after the membership’s Premier League’s relegation was confirmed, Sky Sports activities Information understands.

The Saints turned the earliest group ever to be relegated from England’s top-flight, with their 3-1 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur seeing their demotion confirmed with seven video games to go.

Sky Sports activities Information understands Simon Rusk will take the group till the tip of the season. Rusk took cost briefly when Russell Martin, Juric’s predeessor, left St Mary’s. Adam Lallana may even be concerned within the new set-up.

The Southampton gamers have been advised on Monday morning, with Juric’s backroom employees additionally leaving the membership.

Juric’s time on the south coast membership lasted simply 108 days. He was appointed within the week earlier than Christmas and was handed an 18-month contract, with a break clause which might be reviewed on the finish of the season.

The Croatian boss, who was dismissed by Roma after a dismal six-week spell final November, gained only one out of his 14 Premier League video games in cost – a 2-1 win over Ipswich in the beginning of February.

He misplaced 12 out of these 14 matches, with the Saints averaging 2.7 Premier League targets conceded beneath him.

Juric’s final phrases as Saints boss

Southampton supervisor Ivan Juric after the 3-1 defeat to Spurs:

“What I seen we missed essentially the most in these three or 4 months that I am right here, [it’s a] utterly completely different physicality between us and the opposite groups within the Premier League.

“I believe the identical factor has occurred to Leicester and Ipswich.

“The distinction between physicality within the Championship and the Premier League… the hole is big.

“However you must discover, from now, from this second, the gamers that may develop up, that may enhance. Not simply desirous about successful the Championship, however create the gamers that shall be prepared within the Premier League.

“I stated to the gamers they should be actually grateful that they’d followers like this, it was one thing unbelievable how they love their group.

“I believe they actually deserve way more. Each individual that works at Southampton has to do it higher and create one thing way more stronger than we did this yr.

“It’s a completely different tradition and even for my mentality, it’s one thing unbelievable and to indicate loving in these moments is the nice English and Southampton tradition, unbelievable.

“Now’s a very necessary second to grasp all of the errors the membership has made the previous three or 4 years and for the membership to begin to create one thing actually good.”

The undesirable data Saints can break

Southampton’s depressing return to the Premier League has come to its inevitable conclusion.

The writing was on the wall for Southampton – and had been for a while.They’re the primary group in Premier League historical past to be relegated with as many as seven video games of the season remaining.

Southampton’s relegation again to the Championship was confirmed following their 3-1 defeat at Tottenham, their twenty fifth league defeat.

The Saints are the third group to lose as many as 25 of their first 31 video games of a top-flight marketing campaign, after Sunderland in 2005-06 and Sheffield United in 2020-21 (each additionally 25).

It has been fairly the distinction to final season, when a 22-match unbeaten run within the Championship helped help their profitable bid for promotion to the Premier League through a play-off ultimate win over Leeds at Wembley.

The tough actuality is that many are actually speaking about Southampton as one of many worst groups in Premier League historical past.