Sven Sven Sven

[cpr]

Has been sacked again!

According to SSN breaking news.

[Jon Doeman]

Martin O'Neil

[Doudou]

Sven could end up becoming the new Blackburn manager. Exactly the kind of manager those poultry guys are after

[Hogan]

How much did he spend? And got walloped by 'wall at the weekend. Just shows how good a job NW did last season.

[Hogan]

Oct 24, 2011 17:49:44 GMT Jon Doeman said:

Martin O'Neil

Fair shout jondoeman,but would he go back to Leicester?

[Macmoish]

Being reported by all the press... Not yet on the Leicester Official Site (as far as I see)
www.lcfc.com/page/Home

[Zamoraaaah]

Wadda waista money...

[cpr]

Oct 24, 2011 17:49:44 GMT Jon Doeman said:

Martin O'Neil

2/1 favourite already.

There are some silly names in there though!

[cpr]

Did you sing it though?

[Zamoraaaah]

Always.

[Deleted]

I like Sven

Is that intelligent enough?

[harlowranger]

Must admit i thought he would last longer than Nancy on Strictly , just !

[klr]

trouble with Sven is that its hard to work out whether the biggest motivation for him is to do well or to get sacked, either way he's laughing.

[Macmoish]

I was impressed by how he had Leicester playing last season (against us)...
They were my tip for promotion this season (Especially with all that spending)

If they had Warnock, they'd be up (SHHHHHH!!)

[harlowranger]

Sven finished at Leicester

Sven-Goran Eriksson has left his post as Leicester manager following the club's mediocre start to the season.

Much was expected of the Foxes after an outlay of more than £10million on transfer fees alone in the summer, but they have struggled for consistency this term.

Although they are only five points adrift of the automatic promotion places in the npower Championship, a 3-0 defeat at home to lowly Millwall on Saturday left Leicester in 13th place.

That was the final straw for the club's Thailand-based owners Asia Football Investments, who held a meeting this afternoon to discuss ending the Swede's one-year stay at the King Power Stadium.


And Eriksson's departure was confirmed in a statement on Leicester's official website, www.lcfc.com, this evening.

"Leicester City Football Club has confirmed today that, by mutual agreement, Sven-Goran Eriksson has ceased to be the first team manager, with immediate effect," it read.

"First team coach Dereck Fazackerley has also left the club.

"The club and its board of directors would like to thank Sven and Derek for the contribution they have made to Leicester City during their 13 months at King Power Stadium."

Leicester were in the relegation places when Eriksson, having just finished a stint with the Ivory Coast national team, replaced Paulo Sousa as manager in October 2010.

He guided them to a respectable 10th place last season and among his summer acquisitions was defender Matt Mills, who was signed from Reading for a fee that could rise to £5.5million.

The Foxes were heavily tipped for promotion this season, but a record of just five wins from 13 league games led to Eriksson's demise.

Leicester have now turned their attention to find a successor for the Swede.

"Academy director Jon Rudkin and coach Mike Stowell will jointly assume the role of acting manager of the first team, with assistance from development coach Steve Beaglehole," the statement added.

"This will begin with training on Tuesday morning ahead of Saturday's npower Championship trip to West Ham United.

"The process of recruiting a new permanent manager will begin in the coming days.

"There will be no further comments from the club or any comment on the recruitment process until an appointment is made."

Martin O'Neill, who managed Leicester for five years and led them to the Premier League as well as two League Cup triumphs, has emerged as the early favourite to succeed Eriksson.

Mark Hughes and Alan Shearer have also been touted as potential replacements.

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[waterbuffalo]

Oct 24, 2011 17:37:34 GMT cpr said:

Has been sacked again!

According to SSN breaking news.

Hahaha!! Pack it in Sven. Go home and manage Gothenberg. Be patriotic.

[cpr]

Oct 24, 2011 19:08:45 GMT cpr said:

Oct 24, 2011 17:49:44 GMT Jon Doeman said:

Martin O'Neil

2/1 favourite already.

There are some silly names in there though!

8/13 now

[Macmoish]

Guardian/Stuart James

Sven-Goran Eriksson sacked as Leicester City manager
• 3-0 home defeat to Millwall leaves the club in 13th place
• Martin O'Neill favourite to replace Swede in charge of Foxes
• In pictures: Sven-Goran Eriksson's managerial career

Sven-Goran Eriksson has been sacked as Leicester City manager following the Championship club's disappointing start to the season. Leicester were tipped to win promotion to the Premier League after spending close to £15m in the summer on a number of high-profile signings but Saturday's humiliating 3-0 home defeat against Millwall left the club in 13th place and eight points behind Southampton, the Championship leaders. It was the final straw for the Leicester board.

Eriksson was summoned to a meeting on Monday and the former England manager was informed that the club had run out of patience. After lengthy discussions a statement was released later in the evening, saying the Swede had departed by mutual consent, little more than 12 months after he took over. Derek Fazackerley, Leicester's first-team coach, has also left his post. "The club and its board of directors would like to thank Sven and Derek for the contribution they have made to Leicester City during their 13 months at King Power Stadium," said the statement.

Martin O'Neill, who won two League Cups during the five years he spent in charge of Leicester from 1995 to 2000, has been installed as the early favourite to take over. He said recently he was keen to return to club management, though he is likely to prefer a club in the Premier League. Mark Hughes and Alan Shearer have also been linked with the vacancy and the club is believed to have been in contact with representatives of Avram Grant. An outside bet could be Billy Davies, who has been out of work since he left Nottingham Forest in the summer and has considerable Championship experience.

Although Eriksson dragged Leicester clear of the relegation zone and secured a 10th-placed finish last term, he was under no illusions that promotion was the minimum requirement this season. Apichet Raksriaksorn, the son of the Leicester owner and chairman, Vichai Raksriaksorn, reinforced that message last month. "I expect us to challenge for the Championship title and be in the Premier League next season," said the Thai businessman. "For me it will be very disappointing if it doesn't happen this season."

Eriksson had also become frustrated with the lack of progress and was so upset after Saturday's performance that he called an emergency meeting with the players on Monday morning and told them he was fortunate to be still in a job. He divided the players into three separate groups and asked them to write down why they thought things were going so badly wrong. By that point, however, the wheels were already in motion behind the scenes to remove him from his position.

Leicester's inconsistency this season was all the more galling because of the club's outlay in the summer. Vichai Raksriaksorn, who owns the King Power duty-free company in Thailand, bankrolled a spending spree that led to 15 new faces arriving and put many Premier League clubs in the shade. Matt Mills was signed from Reading for £4.5m, Jermaine Beckford arrived from Everton for £3m and Paul Konchesky was procured from Liverpool as part of a bold recruitment programme that raised Leicester's wage bill to the highest in the Championship.

Eriksson, 63, suggested last night that he will seek another job in English football. "I would not think about retirement at all," he told the Daily Express. "One day, maybe I will wake up and think, 'Enough!' But I don't feel like that now." His appetite for the game remains undiminished, yet his track record ever since he was sacked by Manchester City, at the end of the 2007-08 season, will do little to endear him to prospective employers. He failed as manager of Mexico and was left regretting his decision to take over as director of football at Notts County after the club's grand plans unravelled amid false financial promises. A brief stint in charge of Ivory Coast, at the 2010 World Cup, was also largely forgettable.

www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/oct/24/sven-goran-eriksson-leicester-city

[Macmoish]

And as Harlowranger posted one year ago today!

"Sven Hopes to do with Foxes he couldnt do with Eng[land]"

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[kempton ranger]

Just goes to show how good our FA are at spotting a quality coach when they one. Maclaren now Sven

[cpr]

The should give the job to Steve Beaglehole, great name.

Only Foxlair would be better really.

[waterbuffalo]

I think Martin O'Neill might be waiting for Blackburn, Kean is hanging on by his fingernails.

[hitty]

Sven, the free loader only works for 7 figure salary.
Hate the bloke.
No class.
Next he will manage MotherWEELLLLLLL

[Macmoish]

Louise Taylor/The Guardian

Sven-Goran Eriksson, Steve McClaren and the cruel Championship

The paradox was McClaren was unable to sign new players while Eriksson recruited far too many; but the Sven and Steve show is far from over

Leicester City seemed awash with gossip last week. Rumour had it that Sven-Goran Eriksson would shortly be announcing a key addition to his coaching staff. The man in question was the Swede's old friend and former England sidekick, Steve McClaren.

As it transpired Eriksson's dismissal on Monday afternoon ensured this potentially fascinating reunion of two former England managers was not to be but at least Sven and Steve now have time to meet up for dinner and discuss where it all went wrong.

If Eriksson needs telling that the Championship can be a cruel division no one is better placed to do so than McClaren. His brief reign at Nottingham Forest recently ended in a resignation prompted by an amalgam of appalling results and the nonappearance of promised summer signings.

The man whose failure with England is more than counterbalanced by winning the Dutch title with Twente and, earlier at Middlesbrough, lifting the League Cup and reaching the Uefa Cup final, arguably failed to appreciate the culture shock of life at Forest until it was too late.

A group of players used to the sergeant-major style approach of his predecessor, Billy Davies, reputedly struggled to adapt to McClaren's more considered managerial modus operandi. Meanwhile they did not take to his right-hand man, the sports psychologist Bill Beswick. Tellingly, Beswick tends to prompt love-hate reactions among players, with the Twente squad adoring him and certain former Manchester United players including, most notably Roy Keane, subscribing to his fan club.

To "get" Beswick, players must buy into some initially alien, often uncomfortable, ideas, including being "honest" with themselves and team-mates about their true feelings on certain thorny subjects.

If McClaren and Beswick failed to re-adjust sufficient Forest mindsets to their frequency, Eriksson could not quite make his 15 recent signings at Leicester – accrued at a cost approaching £15m – gel as swiftly as hoped.

Following last Saturday's humiliating 3-0 home defeat to Millwall, which left the pre-season promotion favourites 13th, although only eight points behind the leaders, Southampton, Eriksson was so dismayed at the lack of bonding that he introduced a Beswick-type team exercise.

Dividing his players into three groups he asked them to discuss and write down whey they thought things were going so badly wrong. The answers may have been interesting but they were also academic. By then Leicester's board had begun the process of disentangling themselves from Eriksson and perhaps started wondering whether Martin O'Neill could be enticed back to his old club.

The paradox is that while McClaren was unable to sign the new players whose introduction might have changed the City Ground culture and brought the rest of the squad around to his way of tactical and managerial thinking, Eriksson surely recruited far too many, thereby damaging the dressing room's naturally delicate and emotional ecosystem.

Buying promotion is easier said than done, especially when there remains a real ring of truth about the old adage that managers should think very carefully about signing more than four new players in any given transfer window. Easily shattered but hard to build, squad spirit is a fragile thing.

Never shy about spending money, Eriksson elevated Leicester's wage bill to the highest in the Championship but he made the mistake of not concentrating on acquiring hungry individuals on their way up. Instead, among others, in came Paul Konchesky, taking a clear step down from Liverpool, and Jermaine Beckford, doing likewise from Everton.

While the money was possibly more important than the challenge to some of Leicester's reshaped squad, Eriksson must surely have learnt to be wary of wealthy Thai owners by now. Having been ruthlessly sacked by the former Manchester City owner Thaksin Shinawatra, he has now been similarly dispatched by Leicester's chairman, Vichai Raksriaksorn.

While Eriksson clearly made mistakes he had been in the job for less than 13 months, during which he saved the club from relegation after replacing Paulo Sousa at the start of October last year, with the team bottom of the table. To place this season's struggles in context, Leicester are four points off fourth place and had lost only once in nine games before last Saturday.

The 63-year-old's overall stats at the King Power Stadium are not too shabby; of the 50 games Leicester played under Eriksson, 22 were won, 13 drawn and 15 lost.

He is said to be keen to get back into management at the earliest opportunity but, since leaving the England job, Eriksson's ultimately disappointing tenures at Manchester City, Notts County and now Leicester, along with underwhelming stints in charge of Mexico and Ivory Coast, must have severely diminished his pulling power with club chairmen.

McClaren's case is a bit more complex. At 50 he is still young enough to bounce back and the misses with England, Wolfsburg and Forest have to be set against major hits at Middlesbrough and Twente. The suspicion is that, had Randy Lerner not lost his nerve and bowed to online fan outrage last summer, McClaren might have made a very good Aston Villa manager. His purist passing game could well have been more to the Holte End's taste than Lerner imagined when he cancelled his scheduled interview for the post.

Not that either McClaren or Eriksson want to inhabit a world of if onlys. They will both be seeking employment and, in the short term, who would bet against them popping up on a short-term joint contract to coach one of the finalists for the Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea in January before going their separate ways once again?

The Championship may have poured scorn on their notions of privately battling it out for promotion but the Sven and Steve show is surely far from over … "Two Good Men in Africa" has the ring of a compelling impending instalment.

www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/oct/25/sven-goran-eriksson-steve-mcclaren