Ivan Juric has agreed an 18-month deal to change into Southampton’s new head coach.
The deal features a break possibility which shall be reviewed this summer time. Ought to Southampton keep away from relegation this season, Juric’s contract might be prolonged by an additional two years.
Juric is ready to take over at Southampton after being sacked by Roma final month, the place he lasted lower than two months.
Southampton have been a long-time admirer of the Croatian, with the 49-year-old having beforehand been on Saints’ listing to interchange Ralph Hasenhuttl when the Austrian was sacked two years in the past.
Saints have additionally sounded out West Brom boss Carlos Corberan and former Denmark coach Kasper Hjulmand, whereas Sheffield Wednesday’s Danny Rohl had additionally been linked with the job.
Who’s Ivan Juric?
The Croatian supervisor began his teaching profession working underneath Gian Piero Gasperini – who’s at present the revolutionary head coach at Atalanta.
Juric labored in Gasperini’s teaching employees at Inter Milan and Palermo, earlier than taking his first job at Serie C aspect Mantova within the 2014-15 marketing campaign.
The next season, he took a Serie B job at Crotone and received them promoted to Serie A for the primary time within the membership’s historical past that time period. He didn’t take them into the Italian top-flight although, as he was provided to interchange Gasperini at Genoa, which he accepted.
Juric then had three separate spells at Genoa within the house of two years – being sacked by the membership 3 times between February 2017 and December 2018.
He lastly discovered stability at Hellas Verona in 2019, who had simply been promoted to Serie A. With one of many smallest budgets within the league, he saved them within the prime flight for 2 straight seasons – earlier than taking the Torino job.
The Croatian left Torino on the finish of final season after three seasons in Serie A and took on the Roma job in September of this 12 months after The Friedkin Group sacked fan favorite Daniele de Rossi. Juric, nevertheless, didn’t even final two months as he was sacked with the Giallorossi 4 factors above the relegation zone.
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