Van Nistelrooy to be New Leicester Manager
The Daily Telegraph assumes that the Dutchman will succeed Steve Cooper
Ruud van Nistelrooy has lasted little or nothing without a team. He has not been short of ‘girlfriends’ since his ‘interim’ period at Manchester United ended between the departure of Ten Hag and the arrival of Amorim.
Burnley and Hamburg knocked on his ‘door’, but, finally, as the ‘Daily Telegraph’ has announced, he will coach Leicester. The former Real Madrid and Malaga striker, among others, would have prevailed in the final casting to replace the dismissed Steve Cooper, the Spaniard Carlos Corberán and the Englishman Graham Potter.
The Dutchman, 48 years old, is free after leaving United. Curiously, in the four games he managed the ‘Red Devils‘ – he finished undefeated – he achieved two victories… against Leicester: 5-2 in the League Cup and 3-0 in the Premier.
This
weekend, if his signing is made official, he will debut with the ‘foxes’ visiting Brentford. It will not be easy for him. Leicester, recently promoted, is sixteenth in the League, two points above the relegation zone.
It would be
Van Nistelrooy’s third experience in the elite dugouts. It is worth remembering that he already managed PSV in 2022-23, winning the Dutch Cup and Super Cup.