Leicester Metropolis have named former Queens Park Rangers head coach Marti Cifuentes as their new supervisor on a three-year deal.
The 43-year-old Spaniard replaces Ruud van Nistelrooy on the Foxes’ helm with lower than a month till the season begins.
Cifuentes takes cost of a Leicester aspect that finds itself within the Championship for the second time in three years, having been instantly relegated from the Premier League after going up as second-tier title winners below Enzo Maresca in 2024.
Cifuentes now joins Maresca, who left Leicester after promotion to take the job at Chelsea, as one of many six everlasting managers the Foxes have had in simply over two years.
Simply because the Italian was tasked with returning the East Midlands membership to the highest flight throughout his tenure, promotion can even be anticipated of Cifuentes.
In his time at QPR, the Spaniard, for whom the Foxes can pay Rangers an undisclosed compensation payment, oversaw 18th and Fifteenth-placed finishes.
Leicester say they really feel the Spaniard will convey “a contemporary, progressive footballing philosophy” to the membership, whereas chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha says that Cifuentes “is a superb match”.
“We felt strongly that bringing him to the membership would assist us to create the success all of us need within the years forward,” Srivaddhanaprabha added.
Cifuentes took cost of QPR once they have been second-from-bottom within the Championship in October 2023 and escaping relegation was first requested of him at Loftus Street.
His newest marketing campaign ended with him on gardening depart after the Hoops suffered a 5-0 defeat by already-promoted Burnley in April.
