Steve Cooper, Sean Dyche, Gary O’Neil and Steven Gerrard (Picture 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 a lot 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 delight restored, which might be carried out by scoring not less than two factors with a view to keep away from turning into the worst Premier League aspect in historical past when it comes to factors complete – Derby presently maintain that file 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 way in which within the bid to turn out to be the following supervisor of Southampton, who need their new head coach to have expertise in England, whereas additionally enjoying a high-intensity fashion 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 put up, however he’s intently adopted by Sean Dyche, Gary O’Neil and Steven Gerrard. All 4 are presently out of labor, so their arrival may very well be hasty upon the membership’s choice.
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 carried out in subsequent season’s Championship – particularly as they’re more likely to be unable to name upon Tyler Dibling, who has been strongly linked with the likes of Tottenham.
