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Rohl is the only name realistically in the frame according to the latest odds. He's at 4/7, and the next closest name (Rosenior) is way out at 12/1. Obviously the odds are based on where people are placing their money, but as it stands it looks like a one-horse race. You can get 18/1 on Cooper which seems a very generous price given he's out of work and would seem to be an obvious choice to shortlist: https://www.oddschecker.com/insight/football/20250407-next-southampton-manager-odds-who-is-the-favourite-to-replace-ivan-juric

Hughes kept us up to be fair, but I’m not sure Carlisle would let him go. And someone would have to have a word about the bottle pissing thing

To be fair, relegation - promotion - relegation in the last 3 years does have the hallmarks of a yo-yo strategy He was right all along

You mean you wouldn't want to have Conor Coady and Jannik Vestegaard as the fulcrum of a 50 man passing move starting in your own six yard area? I can hear Russell sneering from here, you heathen

He's managed Barcelona, Ajax, PSV and the Netherlands twice. I think it's fair to say he would be a bit more than 'one of the highest calibre managers' in the Championship. Who's the competition, Chris Brunt?

How would you feel if you appointed Russell Martin?

Sorry - are you seriously saying you wouldn’t want Ronald Koeman if he wanted to come and manage us in the Championship?

The same Mark Hughes who: Finished sixth in the Premier League with Blackburn Took Blackburn into the UEFA Cup Finished 8th in the Premier League with Man City before the Abu Dhabi money Finished 8th in the Premier League with Fulham Took Fulham into the Europa League Kept QPR in the Premier League Finished 9th in the Premier League three seasons running with Stoke Came into Saints when we were going down under Pellegrino, averaged a point a game (got 8 points in 8 games), and kept us up Hughes may be done now, but in terms of his managerial record, we haven't had a manager who gets close to a pedigree like that since Koeman, and even he had never done it in the PL when he came to us.

For Lampard's own sake he needs to stick at a job and actually deliver something. He's actually doing well at Coventry - if he can take them from the bottom half of the Championship into the play-offs this season, and then (assuming they don't go up) turn them into challengers for the automatics next season, he'll have earned a chance at a bigger job. If he jumped ship again though, I don't think that would do his reputation any good at all, especially if he then failed to deliver. He's best off where he is at the moment, and he probably knows that too.

Guardian report now says he was sacked

Given the past connection to the club, his performance in the Championship with no money, the fact that he or his players haven't been paid and he wants out, and his existing positive relationship with our new sporting director via the Red Bull connection, I'd be amazed if it isn't Rohl. Absolutely amazed.

"Sky Sports News understands Simon Rusk will take the team until the end of the season. Rusk took charge briefly when Russell Martin, Juric's predeessor, left St Mary's. Adam Lallana will also be involved in the new set-up." Yay!!!

He was talking about this

Our fans who were there yesterday sang and supported the team the entire time. At the end, at the point our owners, management team and players set the new record for fastest relegation from the Premier League, they were given a standing ovation and clapped off the pitch. Juric said he was amazed by it. One match report described it like this: When the final whistle went, Ivan Juric advanced on to the pitch and stared across at the corner where the away fans were gathered. Southampton had just suffered the earliest relegation in Premier League history, with seven games still remaining, but there was no bitterness. Juric, who seemed almost moved by their reaction, ensured his players applauded them. “For me, this is something completely new, a new experience,” Juric said. “I said to the players they have to be really thankful that they have fans like this. It is something incredible the way they love their team even though we were relegated. They really deserve much more. It’s another type of culture [to Italy]. They show love in this moment; it is a great thing in English culture, Southampton culture.” When Leeds got relegated their players were afraid to go to their fans in the stadium because they were getting so much shit. Everton fans barracked their players in the street when they felt they weren't giving it everything, and they didn't even go down. Where do you stand on it? Should we be proud to have such loyal support, who get behind the team and the club no matter what, or have the players, management and ownership got off way too easily for what they've delivered this year?

Remember when we used to produce our own?

Have you seen the circumstances he's working under at Wednesday? He's basically performing miracles.

Of course he would

Reject all offers for him, tell him he needs to give us one season in the Championship and then if we don't get promoted he can go. Then make him captain and build next season's team around him. Then listen to offers for literally any of the rest of them.

Nah, line the next one up in the background but keep Juric in place as the fall guy, let him stay and take the bullet for the next seven defeats, the inevitable record lowest points total and the highest ever goal difference against, and then the moment the final whistle blows against Arsenal, sack him, sweep the whole lot clean and bring in the new man unsullied by the absolute fiasco of this season.

We did it! First PL team ever to be relegated with seven games to go! Go Sport Republic!

An entirely fitting conclusion to our time in the Premier League. Just perfect. 👌

It's like watching a puff of pink mist

Yaaayyy Ross Stewart I reckon he could save our season

In this case, right was wrong, and write was right