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Well after the Sheffield Wednesday owner’s meltdown overnight I can’t see Rohl wanting to put up with that next season. That said, will be a very acrimonious one if we do hire him as you can’t see Chansiri taking it quietly

Undoubtedly it will be. Nice to know it’s Sheffield Wednesday we’ll be lawyering up with next summer, after doing Swansea last season

Blurted out by the SWFC owner at a fan forum which is somehow still going at half past midnight! Good morning Owls fans

Ankersen doesn't have an official title at Saints. He sits on the board and has an official title at Goztepe, where he's the chairman. Solak doesn't need to chuck him out of the operational side of Saints and if he tried to remove him from being involved with Sport Republic then he'd have a lot of very fucked off Turks on his case He just needs to hire qualified individuals to take the lead on the football side in England with Saints and let Rasmus carry on with the Goztepe side of the project, IMO - fingers crossed he gets the hires right

Nope, we've gone from one dogmatic manager who only knows one way of playing to another. Only this way involves a lot more aimless long passing, rather than aimless short passing

In: Matteo Paro (assistant manager), Stjepan Ostojić (fitness coach) Out: Matt Gill (assistant manager), Colin Calderwood (coach), Rhys Owen (sports scientist) Remaining from RM's staff: Dean Thornton (GK coach), Ben Parker (analyst) https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/jurics-coaching-additions-confirmed

No, coming straight into Saints senior training, will probably play for U21s to begin with but train with main group

We're signing France U19 captain and CB Joachim Kayi Sanda from Valenciennes. Fee is €5m and medical is arranged

Then followed it up by saying that he wants Ugochukwu to stay here

Forest didn’t - what’s your point?

At this point, I would be surprised if he is here next season

Watched him in the warm ups at Selhurst today. Was swinging at the ball in the shooting drill like he had a pirate's peg leg, and then after he eventually converted one - to ironic cheering and celebrations from the crowd - he was cracking up laughing about it. Fernandes was shaking his head and laughing to himself too Knew what sort of performance we were in for today after that

'I had contact two years ago, which was the first time I started thinking about Southampton, but I was the coach of Torino and I stayed there. But I've been watching a lot since then. It was my wish to come here.'

Work permit approved and received. Means he can do the press conference this afternoon

I think he was coaching Torino at the time and they were in the top half of Serie A, so taking over that Saints team was presumably not tempting enough. Could've saved us all from the Mad Nate experience

Had me worried when I saw the title. We've only got five!

Will be interesting to see what we do with the loan slots now Jurić is in. As I understand it, Cornet already has a move set in Jan

There's a thread knocking around on X of a random Turkish fan who was sat next to Ankersen on a plane in 2022 when he was texting Juric saying he wanted to meet with him in person to pitch the job to him, so clearly he is someone they've been interested in for a while. Admittedly, like yourself I know very little of him

"I'm very pleased. I think this is a really big challenge but I'm very optimistic because I saw a team that I believe can do better. "It's important to immediately be connected with the fans. I want an aggressive team and I think that fans of Southampton will like that. "I want us to be more aggressive, to do much more pressing and we have to be quick to change mentality because this is my idea of football."

Official - Ivan Jurić appointed as Saints boss: https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/saints-appoint-ivan-juric-as-mens-first-team-manager