Cowtownred The tickets are on sale now to members and STH from Wednesday. General sale is Thurs 10th Feb but I would get in touch with the club as soon as possible. https://www.southamptonfc.com/match...d tickets STHs&dm_i=2HKL,1U5HG,74JCDI,6DFVN,1 Hope this link works for you.
https://www.transfermarkt.ch/hasenh...der-man-city-system-aufbauen/view/news/399826 Full article here: Ralph Hasenhüttl plans to continue his coaching career with the end of his contract in June 2024 at FC Southampton to end. "I always wanted to prove to myself that I could very well work longer at a club. Hopefully it will be five and a half years here, which is a damn long time in modern football, and then it probably was," said the 54-year-old. The Austrian held the office at the Premier League club in December 2018, since then he has scored 1.32 points per game. Hasenhüttl has not stayed longer with any club so far. "Five and a half years in the Premier League, that's a very high energy expenditure despite all the job satisfaction. I can't imagine that I want to do anything else in the coaching job. And the no to everything else is then also a yes to yourself, and that's what I want to have. That is the firm plan, and I hope that I have the strength to pull it off." He told the new owners that he wants to put Southampton FC on a very healthy footing by 2024, but then that was it. Then I am 57 years old and would like to experience other things and not like Roy Hodgson still sitting on the bench at 74. Certainly not." The coach revealed what the "Saints" stand for from his point of view in the future. Economically, it is "hardly" feasible to get closer to the top 6 in the Premier League, sporty "hopefully already". Solak himself set the course and said that he wanted to acquire clubs abroad in the style of Red Bull or Manchester City: "It will be the cornerstone of the organization we plan to build" (quoted via "Times".) Hasenhüttl says: "Attacking the top 6 is not our plan anyway. We are to be the high-end product and flagship model for a group of clubs in Europe that are still to be bought. There, players should be developed in such a way that the best of them find their way to us." The Austrian sees a "certain similarity to the RB system (...) and the knowledge from my two years in Leipzig helpful of course". Hasenhüttl: FC Southampton wants to increase the values of young players At the beginning of the year, an investment group led by Serbian TV mogul Dragan Solak secured a majority stake in the club – 80 percent. Since 2017, Southampton has been majority-owned by Chinese businessman Gao Jisheng. Hasenhüttl now explained: "We should be able to act in advance on the transfer market. So far, we have been a self-sustaining company. We always had to sell players first in order to get new players. Of course, this makes a development much more difficult, so hopefully we now have more leeway. But this is not about seasoned professionals who cost 30, 40 million euros, but about young players whose values we can increase through appropriate development." The coach continues: "In the future, we will not be the end of the flagpole for many players, but a transit station, which is not a problem for me." It has changed – using the example of Armando Broja (20) – word got around in the Premier League that "young players can quickly gain game practice here. This is a huge image gain." In their history, the "Saints" spent a maximum of 25.1 million euros on a new addition: The previously borrowedDanny Ings (29) came in 2019 for the same transfer from Liverpool FC, but was sold two years later with profit (29.4 million euros) to Aston Villa. This season, the "Saints" – unlike almost the entire English competition – generated a transfer increase of 17.3 million euros.
Get Jose Fonte in as his understudy as he's got all of his coaching badges and let there be a natural and smooth handing over of the reins when Ralph retires.
So after this season we have maximum 2 more years of Ralph. It is indeed a long time to be at one club, but still seems a shame to be talking about it ending.
TBF before this article came to light I'd have taken that. It may only be 2 more seasons but it's what he could do in those 2 seasons that excites me and I have no doubt he'll leave with the club in a much, much better position than when he joined.
Two more years, then get Rafa Benitez. All joking a salad, I feel quite confident that there’s going to be a suitable replacement when the time comes. They’ve invested a lot in Ralph’s vision of football and I’m sure the next coach will be in a similar vein. It won’t be a wild pivot like we had post-Koeman.
Can see it out now, we will get Europa in what was supposed to be his final year. He can't help himself so signs an extension to lead us back into Europe.
We will still have him in 2025 as he will want to see if he can win back to back Premier League titles.....
Hard to complain ultimately. If he does remain with the club through the end of 2024, he'd had the 11th or 12th longest tenure of any manager in PL history (depends on how long Pep remains at City), from what I can tell.
I kind of want to hear Ralph actually say this. It's a strange time to be announcing it. I do hope it isn't true and gets clarified. When is the Spurs press conference? Tomorrow? Guessing he'll be asked a lot about it then.
If he does call it quits in a couple of seasons time then fair enough really. He’ll have been here a long time by modern standards and we know Ralph puts a LOT of time and effort into it (is he still away from his family too?). It does seem a bit odd to be talking about it now even if he’s thinking it though.
You know how we react to surprises. He’s breaking it to us gently. Reminds me of a joke, about breaking bad news in the correct way. An army camp commander has to inform one of his men, private Higgins, that his mother has died and passes the job over to his Sergeant Major. The SM walks on to the parade ground, sees Higgins across the other side and shouts “Higgins your mum has snuffed it”, causing Higgins to suffer great distress and be hospitalised. A few weeks later, when Higgins has recovered, the camp commander receives news that Higgins’ dad has died and instructs the SM to pass on the news but to do it in a kinder way. The SM thinks about it, walks on to the parade ground and shouts for all soldiers to “Fall in”, which they do. After the soldiers are settled in formation and standing at ease the SM says “All of you, whose mother is still alive, fall out”, which saw the majority of soldiers disperse. The SM then said “All of you, whose father is still alive, fall out. Where the **** do you think you are going Higgins?”
