{"id":56815,"date":"2023-04-11T09:45:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T09:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/11\/leicester-city-name-dean-smith-as-manager-until-end-of-season\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T09:45:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T09:45:16","slug":"leicester-city-name-dean-smith-as-manager-until-end-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/11\/leicester-city-name-dean-smith-as-manager-until-end-of-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester City name Dean Smith as manager until end of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/leicester-city-unveil-new-manager-809093737-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"leicester-city-unveil-new-manager-809093737\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Dean Smith has been named Leicester City boss until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, 52, left Norwich earlier this season after previous spells at Aston Villa and Brentford.<\/p>\n<p>Leicester are in huge trouble in the relegation zone following Saturday\u2019s home defeat by Bournemouth, two points from safety with eight games left.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenge in front of us is clear, but it\u2019s one myself and my coaching team have experienced before,\u201d Smith told the club website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the quality in this squad and the number of games remaining, it\u2019s very much achievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u2019s first game in charge of Leicester is away to Premier League champions Manchester City on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Craig Shakespeare returns to the King Power Stadium as Smith\u2019s assistant manager.<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare was part of Claudio Ranieri\u2019s backroom team when Leicester famously won the Premier League title in 2016. He subsequently replaced the Italian as manager.<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u2019s coaching line-up also includes former England captain John Terry, who served under him at Aston Villa, along with the club\u2019s current first-team coaches Adam Sadler and Mike Stowell.<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u2019s appointment means there are five interim managers at Premier League clubs \u2013 Frank Lampard at Chelsea, Cristian Stellini at Tottenham, Southampton\u2019s Ruben Selles and Roy Hodgson at Crystal Palace are in place until the summer, while Leeds boss Javi Gracia is on a \u201cflexible contract\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a record 13 managerial changes in the Premier League this season \u2013 three more than in any previous campaign \u2013 with 11 of those being sackings.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Svh0xIoKviQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV Live Stream\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Svh0xIoKviQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Smith has been named Leicester City boss until the end of the season. Smith, 52, left Norwich earlier this season after previous spells at Aston Villa and Brentford. Leicester are in huge trouble in the relegation zone following Saturday\u2019s home defeat by Bournemouth, two points from safety with eight games left. \u201cThe challenge in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Leicester City name Dean Smith as manager until end of season - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/11\/leicester-city-name-dean-smith-as-manager-until-end-of-season\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Leicester City name Dean Smith as manager until end of season - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dean Smith has been named Leicester City boss until the end of the season. 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