{"id":468674,"date":"2023-11-08T08:58:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=468674"},"modified":"2023-11-08T08:58:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:58:30","slug":"al-ittihad-dismiss-nuno-espirito-santo","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/al-ittihad-dismiss-nuno-espirito-santo\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Ittihad dismiss Nuno Espirito Santo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Ittihad have dismissed ex-Tottenham head coach Nuno Espirito Santo after the bad start of the campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 Al-Ittihad will pay Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo $8m in compensation after sacking him. \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde6<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi club are in ongoing talks with Julen Lopetegui. \ud83d\udc13<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RudyGaletti?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RudyGaletti<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2E6NwabD5F\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2E6NwabD5F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeadlineDayLive\/status\/1722170074495107381?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Saudi Pro League champions triumphed in 6 of 12 matches this campaign and lost 2-0 against Air Force Club of Iraq in the Asian Champions League a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Nuno became Al-Ittihad\u2019s head coach in July 2022 after being dismissed by Spurs almost a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant manager Hassan Khalifa will replace him in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Wolverhampton manager Julen Lopetegui has been approached for the job, but he denied the opportunity as he is waiting for the chance to coach in the Premier League again.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard was replaced by former Bournemouth head coach Gary O&#8217;Neil in August after guiding Wolverhampton to a 13th-place finish last campaign. Still, if Al-Ittihad offered a huge sum of money, Lopetegui could be willing to relocate to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Ittihad have dismissed ex-Tottenham head coach Nuno Espirito Santo after the bad start of the campaign. \ud83d\udea8 Al-Ittihad will pay Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":468675,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19706,22004,20459],"news_category":[14235],"gn_keywords":[19707,20461,11338],"acf":{"announce":"The reigning Saudi Arabian champions sacked the former Tottenham boss.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468682,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/468674\/revisions\/468682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468674"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=468674"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=468674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}