Claudio Ranieri was fired by Watford on Monday after 3 1/2 months accountable for the Premier League crew that has simply slipped into the relegation zone.
Watford received two of its 13 league matches underneath the 70-year-old Ranieri. A 3-0 house loss to Norwich dropped Watford into the underside three for the primary time this season.
Watford is on the lookout for its third everlasting supervisor of the season, having already fired Xisco Munoz, and its sixteenth within the final 10 years.
Watford was the 18th totally different membership in Ranieri’s lengthy teaching profession which reached its peak in 2016 when he guided Leicester to an inconceivable Premier League title.
Watford Football Club confirms the departure of Head Coach Claudio Ranieri.
The Hornets’ Board recognises Claudio as a person of nice integrity and honour, who will all the time be revered right here at Vicarage Road for his efforts in main the crew with dignity.
— Watford Football Club (@WatfordFC) January 24, 2022
Since then, he has been fired by two English golf equipment — Fulham in 2019 and now Watford — which had been battling towards relegation on the time.
Watford described Ranieri as “a man of great integrity and honor, who will always be respected here at Vicarage Road for his efforts in leading the team with dignity.”
“However,” the membership stated in a brief assertion, “the board feels that, with nearly half of the Premier League campaign remaining, a change in the head coach position now will give a new appointment sufficient time to work with a talented squad to achieve the immediate goal of retaining Premier League status.”
Watford was fifteenth within the 20-team league when Ranieri was employed to exchange Munoz on Oct. 4, saying he was “still young” and had the character to succeed the place so many managers have failed underneath the membership’s ruthless proprietor, Italian businessman Gino Pozzo.
The turbulent nature of Ranieri’s brief stint at Watford was summed up by his first two video games in cost — a 5-0 loss to Liverpool adopted by a 5-2 win at Everton. A 4-1 victory over Manchester United a month later prompted the firing of United’s supervisor, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, and signalled higher instances had been forward for Watford.
But since then, the crew has misplaced seven of its eight league video games and been knocked out of the FA Cup, all whereas star participant Ismaila Sarr has ben lacking due to damage.
Losing closely at house to a Norwich crew that had scored simply 10 targets in its earlier 21 Premier League video games spelled the tip for Ranieri.
