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26 minutes ago
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Crisis-hit Leicester consider shock move for recently-sacked Championship manager after axing Ruud van Nistelrooy
One former Fox told SunSport he FEARS for his old club RUUD NOT TO Crisis-hit Leicester consider shock move for recently-sacked Championship manager after axing Ruud van Nistelrooy Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) CHRIS WILDER is now in the frame for a shock return to management with relegated Leicester. Foxes put Wilder, 57, on their shortlist a fortnight after his Sheffield United exit following May's Championship play-off final defeat to Sunderland. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 2 Chris Wilder is being lined up as the next manager of Leicester Credit: PA 2 The Foxes need a new gaffer after axing Ruud van Nistelrooy Credit: Reuters And the experienced boss has emerged as a candidate since the split, while his agent's close ties with Leicester have boosted his chances. Sean Dyche, 54, has been a strong favourite for the job but the former Everton chief may be too strong a character for some leading officials at the King Power. Danny Rohl, 36, who is set to leave troubled Sheffield Wednesday, is another option. Wilder has a good record at Championship level but his best work has always been at boyhood club United. READ MORE IN FOOTBALL 3 LIONS STAR NICKED Ex-England ace arrested at Stansted in front of stunned passengers He was less successful at Middlesbrough and Watford but is still attractive to any clubs chasing promotion. Leicester only sacked Ruud van Nistelrooy a week ago despite him overseeing their relegation to the second tier. The Dutchman managed just four wins in 25 games, losing 18 times. And former Leicester title winner Marc Albrighton fears his old side could struggle to convince a top manager to join them. BEST FREE BETS AND BETTING SIGN UP OFFERS He told SunSport: 'Most clubs are prepared for the worst now. 'They sack their manager in the morning and by the afternoon they've got someone else in charge. Emotional Leicester fans say 'delete this' as club share pics of Jamie Vardy packing his things into a cardboard box 'But it will be hard for Leicester to get someone in with a potential points deduction hanging over the club. 'Any new manager will be conscious of that and won't want to commit until they know what they're dealing with. 'The fans will be expecting an early appointment, given the length of time the board must have known Ruud was going. 'But I wouldn't be too hasty with a new appointment. 'I'd be really thorough because they MUST get this appointment right. 'They obviously went through two major managerial changes last season, and they won't want to go through that again. 'They'll want a manager who is hopefully going to be there for quite a while. So I wouldn't be rushing too much into it if I was them."
The Sun
26 minutes ago
- The Sun
Crisis-hit Leicester consider shock move for recently-sacked Championship manager after axing Ruud van Nistelrooy
CHRIS WILDER is now in the frame for a shock return to management with relegated Leicester. Foxes put Wilder, 57, on their shortlist a fortnight after his Sheffield United exit following May's Championship play-off final defeat to Sunderland. 2 2 And the experienced boss has emerged as a candidate since the split, while his agent's close ties with Leicester have boosted his chances. Sean Dyche, 54, has been a strong favourite for the job but the former Everton chief may be too strong a character for some leading officials at the King Power. Danny Rohl, 36, who is set to leave troubled Sheffield Wednesday, is another option. Wilder has a good record at Championship level but his best work has always been at boyhood club United. He was less successful at Middlesbrough and Watford but is still attractive to any clubs chasing promotion. Leicester only sacked Ruud van Nistelrooy a week ago despite him overseeing their relegation to the second tier. The Dutchman managed just four wins in 25 games, losing 18 times. And former Leicester title winner Marc Albrighton fears his old side could struggle to convince a top manager to join them. He told SunSport: 'Most clubs are prepared for the worst now. 'They sack their manager in the morning and by the afternoon they've got someone else in charge. Emotional Leicester fans say 'delete this' as club share pics of Jamie Vardy packing his things into a cardboard box 'But it will be hard for Leicester to get someone in with a potential points deduction hanging over the club. 'Any new manager will be conscious of that and won't want to commit until they know what they're dealing with. 'The fans will be expecting an early appointment, given the length of time the board must have known Ruud was going. 'But I wouldn't be too hasty with a new appointment. 'I'd be really thorough because they MUST get this appointment right. 'They obviously went through two major managerial changes last season, and they won't want to go through that again. 'They'll want a manager who is hopefully going to be there for quite a while. So I wouldn't be rushing too much into it if I was them."
Daily Mail
27 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
Crisis talk grows louder for Sarina Wiegman with England boss failing to inspire her players as Lionesses are bullied by France in nightmare start to Euros defence, writes DOMINIC KING
Crisis: Sarina Wiegman took the word on board and countered it with a dismissive laugh, almost perplexed it had been introduced to the conversation. Why even go there? She had addressed the big talking point – the decision of three stalwarts to withdraw from her squad – and wanted to look to the future. Wiegman was right to say nothing gets achieved by looking back and her focus was purely on peaking on July 5 in Zurich. The problem for her at St George's Park on June 5, though, was the fact the cards she had been dealt left her with the kind of hand that would cause a national coach, regardless of gender, nightmares on the eve of a tournament. To the casual observer, it looked like this ship was about to run aground. 'There is always noise,' Wiegman countered, as she thanked the retired pair Mary Earps and Fran Kirby and offered words of support to the mentally and physically drained Mille Bright. 'We expect noise until we go into the tournament.' She can expect the noise to increase now the tournament has started. Group D was always going to laced with jeopardy, each match in this mini league containing The Netherlands and Wales resembling a roll of the dice in a game of snakes and ladders. Get the right combination and England would be up, up and away; get it wrong and slithering back down to the brink was an omnipresent danger. For Wiegman in Zurich, as France bullied the reigning European Champions close to submission, a false step has taken her team towards the trapdoor. Nobody will forget the glorious summer of 2022, when Wiegman masterminded the campaign that ended in a blaze of glory, but situations change and things move on and the reason 'crisis' became a topic with which she had to deal was due to the narrative that was beginning to develop. Wiegman hated it when a comparison was made with the men's team but if Thomas Tuchel, a keen observer in Zurich next to his starstruck Chief Executive Mark Bullingham, had been hit with three key withdrawals then served up an anaemic opening tournament night, the noise would deafen. A lot of new eyes will be on the England team in the coming weeks, casual observers with big expectations, and anyone tuning in for the first time will have been perplexed why Wiegman was powerless to stop a chasm appearing in sobering opening 45 minutes. It was in that one-sided half that France, with their well-timed tackling and relentless running, took the game away from England. Wiegman berated the fourth official about decisions that never went her team's way but it was camouflage, a distraction from the serious shortfalls in front of her. You would hope that, privately, Wiegman knows what is wrong and what needs to be addressed but with The Netherlands up next in Letzigrund on Wednesday but tournament football doesn't give a coach much time to come up with solutions. So, yes, crisis was the right word then and it is the right word now. A false step against the country of her birth and they will fall down the ladder to the point of no return.
