Steve Cooper, Sean Dyche, Gary O’Neil and Steven Gerrard (Photograph by Getty Photos, Nigel Keene/ProSports/Shuttershock, Imago, Yasser Bakhsh/Getty Photos)
It has been a torrid season for Southampton. They made a poor begin to life again within the Premier League, and that resulted in Russell Martin being sacked in December. Ivan Juric was appointed as his alternative, and he didn’t handle to truthful significantly better, and he has now adopted go well with in shedding his job.
There are nonetheless seven Premier League matches to go till Southampton’s return to the Championship is made official, and the brand new supervisor will probably be tasked with ending the depressing marketing campaign with some satisfaction restored, which might be executed by scoring not less than two factors in an effort to keep away from turning into the worst Premier League facet in historical past by way of factors complete – Derby at the moment maintain that document with 11 factors from the 2007/08 season.
English managers emerge as favourites for Southampton job
As per Birmingham World, English managers are main the best way within the bid to change into the following supervisor of Southampton, who need their new head coach to have expertise in England, whereas additionally enjoying a high-intensity type of soccer.
At this stage, former Nottingham Forest and Leicester Metropolis supervisor Steve Cooper is taken into account to be the favorite to land the Southampton submit, however he’s carefully adopted by Sean Dyche, Gary O’Neil and Steven Gerrard. All 4 are at the moment out of labor, so their arrival may very well be hasty upon the membership’s determination.
Whoever is appointed by Southampton will probably be tasked with securing an instantaneous return to the Premier League, which will probably be simpler stated than executed in subsequent season’s Championship – particularly as they’re prone to be unable to name upon Tyler Dibling, who has been strongly linked with the likes of Tottenham.
