LAST UPDATE | 4 Oct 2021
WATFORD HAVE ANNOUNCED the appointment of Claudio Ranieri as their new head coach on a two-year contract.
The Italian former Chelsea and Leicester boss succeeds Xisco Munoz, who parted company with the Hornets on Sunday.
He takes over a side 15th in the Premier League with seven points from their opening seven matches.
The 69-year-old becomes Watford’s 13th permanent manager since owners the Pozzo family took control in 2012.
Ranieri steered 5000/1 shots Leicester to the most improbable of all Premier League titles in 2016, in what remains the crowning glory of a lengthy managerial career.
Now the ever-popular coach has been confirmed for his first job in English football in two years.
Ranieri endured a tough spell at Fulham in 2019 in his last foray in England, winning just three of his 17 matches at Craven Cottage before being replaced by assistant Scott Parker.
But now Watford’s board believe Ranieri is the right man to kick-start the Hornets’ season after just two wins in seven matches in the new top-flight campaign.
Munoz had only been in charge at Vicarage Road for 10 months, leading the club back to the Premier League, when he was unseated by Watford’s bosses on Sunday.
The Hornets have managed league wins over Aston Villa and Norwich but four losses and a draw elsewhere proved enough for the club hierarchy to make an early change.
Ranieri left Sampdoria at the end of last season and has been out of work since, but is now preparing to make his Premier League return.
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I hope all ten of the kerry fans enjoy there day out in croker
That’s an outrageous statement to make based entirely on speculation and crude stereotyping. I’m going so that means there’ll be 11 of us. Now who looks foolish.
Dublin fans can’t even make it out of the BigTree in time for throw in, game prob be delayed for half an hour!
Super Dublin.
Will Kerry have a plan up their sleeve plus if Kerry’s forwards click can dubs handle them?
Great news for the touts.
I’ve just bought 4 for my boss in the Upper Hogan section 725 on Ticketmaster.ie & it says there are still 94 available.
Tickets left with ticketmaster, not with Gaa. But even ticketmaster stock will go fast if that’s all they have left on Monday!
There’ll be plenty of tickets available in the pubs and outside the ground on the day
Great game the best team on the day should win so good luck to dublin and Kerry
82300 capacity
Well said robby !!!!!