{"id":1243,"date":"2025-06-27T18:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2025-06-27T18:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:17:08","slug":"manager-van-nistelrooy-leaves-relegated-leicester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/manager-van-nistelrooy-leaves-relegated-leicester\/","title":{"rendered":"Manager Van Nistelrooy leaves relegated Leicester"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-51.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-51.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-51-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-51-768x511.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ruud van Nistelrooy has left his position as manager of Leicester after relegation from the Premier League, the club announced on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The club and Van Nistelrooy had &#8220;mutually agreed&#8221; that the Dutchman&#8217;s contract would be terminated with immediate effect, a club statement said. The 48-year-old joined the struggling Foxes in late November after a brief spell as Manchester United&#8217;s caretaker boss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he was unable to stop their slide and they returned to the second-tier Championship after just one season back in the Premier League. &#8220;Ruud has overseen a challenging period for the club,&#8221; Leicester said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;From his appointment in November 2024, he approached the role with professionalism, integrity and a clear commitment to our aims, including through the integration of several promising players from the club&#8217;s academy into our first team environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Ruud moves on with the respect and thanks of everyone at the football club for his dedication and hard work, and with our very best wishes for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Nistelrooy said: &#8220;I would like to personally thank the Leicester City players, coaches, academy and all the staff I have worked with for their professionalism and dedication during my time at the club.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruud van Nistelrooy has left his position as manager of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}