In the early morning of January 25, Beijing time, the Premier League Watford Club officially announced that the 70-year-old Ranieri will no longer serve as the club manager. The Italian manager took up the team's coach halfway this season and led the team to a 4-1 Manchester United record, but now Watford are deep in the relegation zone, and have not won in the last eight Premier League games.
The 70-year-old Ranieri is a famous manager in football, and the Italian nicknamed "Potmaker" has many Premier League coaching experiences. Especially in 2016, Ranieri took LinkedIn to win the league title over the previously unknown Leicester City, which is a miracle of football.
Last season, Ranieri coached Serie A side Sampdoria, leading the team to 9th place and choosing to retire. Originally thought that Ranieri was ready to retire, he came out again in the middle of the season and chose to take over Watford, who is also the first new Premier League manager to take over this season.
After taking over Watford, Ranieri had a good result, and they beat Everton, who were in good shape at the time, 5-2. Of course, Ranieri has played the most classic game this season, which is a 4-1 blow to Manchester United. After such a game, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was kicked out of class, and Ranieri was ridiculed as a "Premier League public enemy".
Originally thought that Ranieri, who did not understand the "scientific rope", was hanged by the rest of the Premier League teams as a joke, but after the recent 8 rounds of the league, that is, after the match with Manchester United, Watford is indeed a win. In the recent 8 rounds of matches, Watford have lost 1 draw and 7 losses, losing 23 points in 54 days, and the club is currently in the relegation zone and is the second-to-last team in the Premier League.
In the latest round of the Premier League, Watford lost 3-0 at home to Norwich, who had previously been at the bottom, which was also the last battle for Ranieri to coach the club. Finally, today, Watford made the final decision, they fired the 70-year-old Ranieri, and the Italian was dismissed from the Premier League club for the fourth time, after leaving his footprints at Chelsea, Leicester City and Fulham.
As a promotion horse in the Premier League this season, Watford's goal this season is to stay in the Premier League. In fact, when Ranieri took over, the club was also in the middle of the league, but Watford's top brass fired the meritorious manager Muñoz who led the team into the Premier League, which showed the team's radical ideas.
Today's dismissal of Ranieri is more of a helpless move for the team. Watching the club's ranking slip from mid-range to second-to-last is an outcome that no team executive wants to see. In Watford's official statement, they gave Ranieri enough face. Hornets said Ranieri was one of the most respected managers in football and he would always be remembered by the club.