Erik ten Hag is being thought-about by a European large simply a few weeks on from his dismissal from Manchester United – however just isn’t presently considered the forerunner amid competitors from a number of different former Premier League names.
Roma are looking out for his or her third supervisor of the marketing campaign after allotting with Daniele De Rossi in September after which pulling the set off on Ivan Juric on Sunday, lower than two months into his reign.
Juric oversaw back-to-back league wins after taking the job however had led Roma to simply 4 extra factors from six video games since then, with a 3-2 dwelling defeat to Bologna proving the ultimate straw.
Erik ten Hag shortlisted for Roma job
Corriere dello Sport report that Roma’s homeowners, the Friedkin Group – presently within the means of taking up at Everton – had ‘made contact’ with each ten Hag and former Brighton and Chelsea boss Graham Potter.
Appointed from Ajax in 2022, Ten Hag departed Manchester United final month after overseeing a poor begin to the brand new Premier League season with simply 11 factors from their first 9 video games. Ruben Amorim has since been appointed as his alternative.
Nonetheless, Corriere later reported that Claudio Ranieri was in ‘pole place’ for the job and that he was set to carry talks with the Friedkin household in London to debate the position.
If Ranieri have been to be appointed, it will be his fourth spell along with his boyhood membership: he began his participant profession there and had managerial stints from 2009-2011 and once more on a short-term foundation in 2019.
The 73-year-old Premier League title winner with Leicester Metropolis introduced on the finish of final season that he was retiring from membership administration and would solely take into account affords from worldwide sides.
Nonetheless, the lure of the membership he has supported his complete life might be an excessive amount of to withstand. Roma presently sit twelfth in Serie A with three wins from 12 video games. They’re simply 4 factors above the relegation zone and 12 away from the highest 4.
Ranieri led Roma on an finally unsuccessful title cost throughout his first managerial stint on the membership, going prime of the desk in April after a 24-game unbeaten run earlier than being pipped to the title by Jose Mourinho’s Inter.
His second stint within the dugout was a short-term measure on the finish of the 2018/19 season after Eusebio Di Francesco was dismissed. Roma discovered kind once more beneath Ranieri however completed sixth, three factors outdoors the highest 4.
