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Ivan Juric has agreed an 18-month deal to develop into Southampton’s new head coach.

The deal features a pause choice which shall be reviewed this summer time. If Southampton keep away from relegation this season, Juric’s contract might be prolonged for an extra two years.

Juric set to take over at Southampton after being sacked by Rome final month, the place it lasted lower than two months.

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Who’s Ivan Jurić?

The Croatian supervisor began his teaching profession underneath Gian Piero Gasperini – who’s presently Atalanta’s breakthrough head coach.

Juric labored in Gasperini’s teaching employees at Inter Milan and Palermo, earlier than taking his first Serie C job at Mantua through the 2014-15 marketing campaign.

The next season he accepted a job in Serie B at Crotone and promoted them to Serie A for the primary time within the membership’s historical past that season. He did not take them to the Italian high flight, nevertheless, as he was provided to switch Gasperini at Genoa, which he accepted.

Juric then loved three separate spells at Genoa within the area 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 high flight for 2 consecutive seasons – earlier than settle for the put up in Turin.

The Croatian left Turin on the finish of final season after three seasons in Serie A and took the job at Roma in September this yr after the Friedkin Group sacked fan favourite Daniele de Rossi. Juric, nevertheless, did not even final two months as he was sacked with the Giallorossi 4 factors above the relegation zone.