Leicester Metropolis have parted firm with supervisor Steve Cooper after simply 12 video games of the brand new Premier League season.
The Foxes solely appointed Cooper in June, after Enzo Maresca left final season’s Championship winners to develop into head coach at Chelsea, however the former Nottingham Forest boss has struggled to win over the membership’s supporters.
Outcomes on the sector haven’t been nice both, with back-to-back wins over Bournemouth and Southampton dampened by a run of three defeats in Leicester’s final 4 Premier League video games.
The Foxes had been additionally closely overwhelmed 5-2 by Manchester United, led by interim supervisor Ruud van Nistelrooy on the time, within the Carabao Cup fourth spherical.
In a press release confirming their resolution to sack Cooper, assistant supervisor Alan Tate and first staff coach Steve Rands, Leicester mentioned: “Males’s First Crew coaching can be overseen by First Crew Coach Ben Dawson, supported by coaches Danny Alcock and Andy Hughes, because the Membership begins the method of appointing a brand new supervisor, which we hope to conclude as quickly as attainable.”
Cooper had been tasked with constructing on Leicester’s promotion from the Championship which got here on the first time of asking following their shock relegation.
The 2021 FA Cup winners had seen Cooper take Nottingham Forest into the Premier League for the primary time in 23 years, earlier than staving off relegation regardless of relentless hypothesis over his future on the Metropolis Floor.
He was ultimately changed by Forest final December, with Nuno Espirito Santo his successor, and had beforehand cast his status as Swansea Metropolis supervisor and as England’s Underneath-17 head coach – the latter job seeing Cooper lead the Three Lions to Underneath-17 World Cup glory in 2017.
Leicester have now cycled by way of 4 managers within the final 19 months, stemming from Brendan Rodgers’ dismissal in April 2023. Dean Smith took the reins till the tip of that season, however was unable to maintain the Foxes within the Premier League. Maresca took over in the summertime of 2023.
The Italian’s nice debut season in cost drew rapid curiosity from Chelsea, who activated the discharge clause in his contract so as to appoint him as Mauricio Pochettino’s successor on a five-year cope with an possibility to increase for an extra 12 months.
