We just need someone who is competent and who can make a team out of what is, doom-mongers notwithstanding, a pretty decent bunch of individual footballers. They need to be marginally better than the **** teams around us (as I've said before, they're all **** because they are nearly as bad as we've been this season). I'm buggered if I know who can do this and I'm not sure anyone actually knows. If it was simple, you wouldn't have an average season featuring around ten sackings. We can pontificate all we like but it's clear that it isn't simple or all the teams in the league would have long-standing managers. And that's with the astoundingly deeper understanding of football than 99% of people on the terraces and with money beyond comprehension resting on the success of their decisions. Given all that, anyone saying X will definitely do well or Y definitely won't is making a very bold claim. Vin
I don’t think Bielsa or Gallardo would come to us tbh and just from a casual look at Juric his record doesn’t look any better than Jesse Marsche. It’s underwhelming but no one who intends to manage in the Premier League nexts season will come here, we will only be able to attract people willing to manage in the Championship next season. We are an utter bin fire at the moment so fair enough if he’s willing imo.
This really, how many times has a manager gone somewhere with a big reputation and been ****? And the reverse? It happens all the time as managers just seem to do well at some clubs and not others for multiple reasons. Whoever our next manager is could be good or bad but there is no one who realistically will want the job who will have a 100% record at a level deemed equal to the PL and is seen as a sure thing. Keeping us in the division is obviously the target this year, but it also will most likely be the number one target for the next 10 years unless something dramatic happens in terms of ownership/the structure of the league
We're 20th in the league, with relegation a very high probability. No manager worth his salt would leave their club to come to us at this moment in time. We get who we get because of the position that we're in.
Honestly I am pinning my hopes on Selles becoming the next best thing in the premier league! I really can’t swap Jones’ I’m pound for pound the best manager ever, to all sunshine’s and rainbows with Jessie Marsch
He basically didn’t have a striker either, as Bamford was pretty much injured for his tenure. I don’t know if he’s the answer, but he’s nice, and right now after the last three months, I’ll take nice.
We don’t have a striker either so he should be used to that. If he can get us playing like Leeds and we somehow can convert more chances than they did then it could be a good appointment. The Leeds fans I know blame the players way more than Marsch for their situation as they said they were creating chances every game but couldn’t score. They also said the players are like headless chickens and the defence gets ridiculously exposed, they think any centre back would struggle in that system and that Koch and Struijk are far better than our centre backs so we will have the same issues
If you want a good laugh, try spending five minutes reading this thread: https://www.not606.com/threads/article-confirmed-mauricio-pochettino-replaces-nigel-adkins-as-saints-manager-southampton-fc-football.190955/page-3 I promise it'll be five minutes well spent. It shows perfectly just how much we all collectively know about football management and how to spot a success. I'm not talking about the comments regarding the way it was done, I mean the ones about his management style. Vin
sounds like Nathan Jones has clouded your view of Southampton supporters. We’re a reasonable bunch and pretty patient. If the football is decent and the players are showing effort then we get behind the team. Whoever comes in just needs to get them playing something resembling football.
