The Saints since parting ways with Russell Martin in the last couple of weeks have finally reached an agreement with Ivan Juric to become the club’s substantive manager for the rest of the campaign.
Further, Southampton as a newly promoted side in the English top-flight league are only seeking to secure their Premier League status at the end of the season therefore, the board of the club are of the believe that, Juric has the necessary capacity to guide the club with his immense managerial prowess in order to sustain the club in the league.
Now, the contract negotiations involving the Saints and Ivan Juric has been agreed upon verbally; discussions are currently underway on the exit from As Roma as Juric has opted for the termination of his existing contract as the manager for the Italian Serie-A side.
Plus, all contract with involving parties are sailing through with no hitches. All things being equal, the deal has been schedule to be completed today as paper works are almost done and dusted
Ivan Juric will ink a one year deal, which will be mainly based on performance with his target on keeping the club in the English premier league plus an automatic one year extension when he succeed with achieving the target.
Profile of Ivan Juric:
The 49-year-old former Croatian midfielder after his professional footballing career swiftly joined the bus of managing clubs like Genoa, Hellas Verona, Torino and As Roma after he had bagged the UEFA Pro coaching license.
Ivan Juric is widely known for his preferred deployment of the 3-4-2-1 formation which allows him to have his team being formidable defensively and having more men during attack.
He has supervised eight games in the Italian Serie-A this season, won three, drawn one and lost four of those games whiles in UEFA Europa league, he has been in charge of four games, won one, drawn two and lost one.
Southampton’s target set for Ivan Juric to achieve:
The Croatian is expected to step in as the perfect replacement of Russell Martin who guded the team back into the English top-flight yet, has not shown that he has the muscles to manage the Saints at the highest level.
Ivan Juric has to first off regroup the Southampton side and begin to instill confidence into the squad as they grind positive results from games in the Premier League.
Next, Southampton find themselves at the bottom of the league standings with just five points after sixteen league games – scoring eleven and conceding a humiliating thirty-six goals making the side with the weakest defense in the league.
Therefore, Juric is expected to find solutions to the current bizarre situation the team finds itself in order for them not to plummet back into the English Championship at the end of the 2024/25 season.
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