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Hiddink 'turned down' Leicester job
Guus Hiddink has claimed he turned down the opportunity to replace Claudio Ranieri as Leicester City manager.
The decorated manager had two brief spells in the Premier League with Chelsea and although he said the Foxes owners didn't call him directly, he was sounded out about the position by intermediaries.
“To be strictly correct, I didn’t talk directly with Leicester," he told The Sunday Times. "But you know how the line goes. ‘They think of you…’
“They asked not directly but indirectly, but I said no. If you have decided to sack Ranieri, why don’t you go with your number two guy?
“[Craig] Shakespeare knows the club, knows the players. Why don’t you go there, you will see what will happen, I said.
"Happily I was right. Liverpool [Shakespeare’s first game in charge] didn’t know what hit them. Within 20 minutes, 2-0.
"And five days later Leicester won at Hull. The relegation problem was solved in five days.”
Ranieri was sacked with Leicester in danger of slipping into the relegation zone and Shakespeare was eventually appointed until the end of the current season.
Five wins from five games does indeed suggest the owners ultimately made the correct decision.
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