Steve Cooper, Sean Dyche, Gary O’Neil and Steven Gerrard (Picture by Getty Pictures, Nigel Keene/ProSports/Shuttershock, Imago, Yasser Bakhsh/Getty Pictures)
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 substitute, and he didn’t handle to truthful significantly better, and he has now adopted swimsuit 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 likely be tasked with ending the depressing marketing campaign with some pleasure restored, which might be accomplished by scoring at the very least two factors with a purpose to keep away from changing into the worst Premier League facet in historical past when it comes to factors whole – Derby at the moment maintain that report 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 grow to be the following supervisor of Southampton, who need their new head coach to have expertise in England, whereas additionally taking part in 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 could possibly be hasty upon the membership’s determination.
Whoever is appointed by Southampton will likely be tasked with securing an instantaneous return to the Premier League, which will likely be simpler stated than accomplished 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.
