Who do we want next as Saints manager?

[kjurwi]

Based on their track record i have the utmost confidence that Sport Republic vill hire the greatest coach ever. They will never let us down.

[Matthew Le God]

Just now, kjurwi said:

Based on their track record i have the utmost confidence that Sport Republic vill hire the greatest coach ever. They will never let us down.

It isn't Sport Republic's track record you should look at. Johannes Spors is making the pick.

[manji]

1 hour ago, aintforever said:

Cooper for me, he has experience of getting promoted out of the Championship which will help for a club in our situation, plus I think he’s the sort of personality we need to change the mentality of the players.

I would go for someone who knows the league and knows how to get out of it, not a young manager or foreigner on a learning curve.

Agreed but the plan isn’t just about us getting autos it’s preparing a team that’s going to stay in the PL as well Spors didn’t just join us to get us promoted again he’s got bigger ambitions than that. Newcastle had him on a hit list possibly he might naff off and leave us in the lurch like Wilcox did but I even will have talked to Spors about that. I have not any idea about a manager I bet Spors wil be involved in that choice. I keep saying Spors is well aware of our fuck ups I reckon whoever the manager is will be well thought out Spors rep depends on it and frankly SRs rep as a sport media giant is fucked and despite all the weeping and wailing on here it’s not fucked yet. 

[manji]

13 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

It isn't Sport Republic's track record you should look at. Johannes Spors is making the pick.

Yes exactly 

[manji]

16 minutes ago, kjurwi said:

Based on their track record i have the utmost confidence that Sport Republic vill hire the greatest coach ever. They will never let us down.

Such a thoughtless tired comment .

[manji]

6 hours ago, saintant said:

There remains an elephant in the room pushing levers and sticking his trunk where it's not wanted - Rasmus has not gone away and is likely to be in the ear of Spors.

He’s not an elephant in the room he’s still highly regarded but he’s had his wings clipped but I bet he was involved in Spors appointment so well done Rasmus 

[tdmickey3]

3 minutes ago, manji said:

He’s not an elephant in the room he’s still highly regarded but he’s had his wings clipped but I bet he was involved in Spors appointment so well done Rasmus 

All Hail Rasmus..... 

As long as you forget the clusterfuck 🙄

[OneMrsWallace]

7 hours ago, Football Special said:

Problem is we've had a wanky bollocks philosophy director in Ankerson as the driving force behind those appointments so need to keep him well away from the process 

Then we need a manager that will stand up to him and kick him in his wacky bollocks. 

[Saint Gifford]

Has anyone phoned Ian Holloway yet. What a Job at Swindle. Mad as a box of frogs, just what we need right now.

[saintant]

2 hours ago, manji said:

He’s not an elephant in the room he’s still highly regarded but he’s had his wings clipped but I bet he was involved in Spors appointment so well done Rasmus 

If he's highly regarded then we remain deep in the mire. Just trying to think of a few things that might lead to him being highly regarded in terms of Southampton FC.....nope, can't think of any.

[the colonel]

Who will the next manager and of course.....who will be his/her replacement come Christmas?!?!

[Football Special]

I've heard Rasmus has approached these chaps , just what we need 

[richardc]

3 hours ago, manji said:

He’s not an elephant in the room he’s still highly regarded but he’s had his wings clipped but I bet he was involved in Spors appointment so well done Rasmus 

In what way can Rasmus be highly regarded after overseeing 3 years of a complete cluster fuck, with a whole list of repeated fuck ups and and yet you say hes  highly regarded at southampton 

[SaintsBarry74]

Should we take Russell Martin back?

I kind of miss us having a 70% possession while getting battered every game.

[goodymatt]

 

[Harry_SFC]

18 hours ago, HKsaint said:

Gary Monk with Beattie alongside, please.

I believe Beattie will actually be at Saints next season. In what role I'm not sure.

Edited Tuesday at 18:08 by Harry_SFC

[CB Fry]

4 hours ago, manji said:

He’s not an elephant in the room he’s still highly regarded but he’s had his wings clipped but I bet he was involved in Spors appointment so well done Rasmus 

Spors hasn't actuually achieved anything yet so let's keep the open top bus in the garage for now.

[Gloucester Saint]

4 hours ago, manji said:

Agreed but the plan isn’t just about us getting autos it’s preparing a team that’s going to stay in the PL as well Spors didn’t just join us to get us promoted again he’s got bigger ambitions than that. Newcastle had him on a hit list possibly he might naff off and leave us in the lurch like Wilcox did but I even will have talked to Spors about that. I have not any idea about a manager I bet Spors wil be involved in that choice. I keep saying Spors is well aware of our fuck ups I reckon whoever the manager is will be well thought out Spors rep depends on it and frankly SRs rep as a sport media giant is fucked and despite all the weeping and wailing on here it’s not fucked yet. 

Cooper did get Forest up from the Champ relegation zone to a miraculous promotion and then kept them up with 90% of a new squad and a little bit to spare. Rohl at least has an advantage on Martin by having been Ralph’s deputy and seeing the physicality, focus and relentlessness of the PL first hand. I prefer Cooper out of the two but happy with either.

I appreciate your positivity about SR and along with MLG you are providing a counter point to the majority on here, me included.

However, I’d advise not saying that people on here are ‘weeping and wailing’ when the club has been relegated well before Easter and is still yet to pass Derby’s low points record. Some contrition from SR would be a good idea, but the best idea of all would be to borrow the Birmingham template for League One this season and the similar one Wolves had under Nuno https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/clyqj2r1rn0o

They wouldn’t be able to do it to quite the same extent if it were next season with the rule changes but it’s good value because those key signings are already worth more when they go up tonight than they paid. 

Blow the league out of water with the quality we sign, big home victories, high tempo football, full houses - this season can be a memory quite quickly but Dragan is going to spend within the restrictions - we have more headroom than 2023 - plus what we bring in to achieve it. Our fanbase and SR wouldn’t half feel better.

[pimpin4rizeal]

19 hours ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

Lampard? Too close to Uncle fucking Harry for my liking. And I’m out.

To be fair Redknapp was a really good manager for most of his clubs . I know he’s not popular here but hard not to rate him 

[Lard]

On 07/04/2025 at 14:22, Toussaint said:

Current odds for next permanent Saints manager

Danny Rohl 4/7

Frank Lampard 9/1

Liam Rosenior 9/1

Steve Cooper 11/1

Kasper Hjulmand 12/1

Sean Dyche 14/1

Simon Rusk 16/1

David Wagner 16/1

Gary O'Neil 16/1

Gareth Southgate 20/1

Michael Carrick 20/1

Pep Lijnders 25/1

Julien Stephan 25/1

Russell Martin 40/1

Lee Carsley 40/1

No Diego Simone….bugger. 
my hopes are dashed. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Badger]

19 minutes ago, pimpin4rizeal said:

To be fair Redknapp was a really good manager for most of his clubs . I know he’s not popular here but hard not to rate him 

Many Saints fans, me included, thought he was the obvious candidate after Chris Nicholl was sacked. 
 

But no, Branfoot was preferred. 
 

None of which changes the fact when he did come to us he was a knob 

Edited Tuesday at 19:23 by Badger

[Give it to Ron]

20 minutes ago, pimpin4rizeal said:

To be fair Redknapp was a really good manager for most of his clubs . I know he’s not popular here but hard not to rate him 

I will never forgive his tenure here didn’t want to be here and showed it with team selection Calum Davenport!!

[Sidney Fudpucker the 3rd]

On 07/04/2025 at 14:43, tdmickey3 said:

Why come on here if you dont care?

 

Fo no other reason than to annoy the fuck out of you! 😂

[Turkish]

9 hours ago, Dman said:

Disgustingly underrated manager. Mainly becuase he's ugly as fuck and doesn't play propaganda football. 

For any side hunting for Promotion or a newly promoted side could do a hell of a lot worse than appointing him. 

Nothing pretty, but sets the side up to gets points, not praise from hipsters on Twitter. 

Unfortunately I can't see us moving for him - would be a good candidate for Leeds if they don't go up or Ipswich if Mckenna moves on. 

he is by the far the most obvious and best candidate we could get. Out of work, good history of working with young players, get promotion and keeps teams up. 

[tdmickey3]

40 minutes ago, Sidney Fudpucker the 3rd said:

Fo no other reason than to annoy the fuck out of you! 😂

You don’t annoy me sweetheart, I just think you are all mouth

Edited Tuesday at 20:10 by tdmickey3

[Viking Saint]

8 hours ago, Convict Colony said:

Think Dragans foot is going to be firmly up the arse of Rasmus if he does that.

Here's hoping.....

[ErwinK1961]

3 hours ago, goodymatt said:

 

Two managers with completely different footballing styles.

[Dr Who?]

8 minutes ago, ErwinK1961 said:

Two managers with completely different footballing styles.

The owners of our club do not have a flipping clue, this has been shown over and over again since the sacking of RH. I do not trust them to make the right choice. The fact that the managers above have completely different footballing styles just proves that they are clueless and do not having a vision of the way forward. I am at this stage very worried and would prefer them to say that the club is up for offers to be bought. 

[Gloucester Saint]

17 minutes ago, ErwinK1961 said:

Two managers with completely different footballing styles.

Rosenior, completely different football style apart, is not going to leave Strasbourg and potential European football, for this job. Too much to lose. Feels like a smoke screen. Unless he really has to come back to the UK for family reasons but he could probably get the Rangers job if that was the case. Rohl and you would hope out of common sense, Steve Cooper.

[HarvSFC]

I've aired my reservations over Rohl already, but Rosser is usually a reliable source, so if he is our top option, lets not dilly dally over £4m and get it done once the season's up. Hopefully, under the new leadership they will be a bit more proactive in the market with the old regime missing out on a host of players in their three years here after wasting time going for the top options. I know, they try to do it to save money, but we end up spending just as much, if not more trying to sign the backup options as we do the original player. See missing out on Delap for £20m and signing BBD and Archer for £7m and £15m. And Ipswich will make money on Delap, while we'll be looking to spend more money on replacing BBD and Archer this summer.

Could just as easily spend £4m on the backup manager choice through sacking him and replacing him with someone else if he's unsuccessful.

[saintant]

Let's avoid going for managers with a particular style. We need someone who is happy to try different formations to suit the occasion. Don't mind a preferred style but let's not tie ourselves to a manager welded to one way of playing - we've been down that particular road. A good coach is adaptable and that's what we need.

[hypochondriac]

22 minutes ago, HarvSFC said:

I've aired my reservations over Rohl already, but Rosser is usually a reliable source, so if he is our top option, lets not dilly dally over £4m and get it done once the season's up. Hopefully, under the new leadership they will be a bit more proactive in the market with the old regime missing out on a host of players in their three years here after wasting time going for the top options. I know, they try to do it to save money, but we end up spending just as much, if not more trying to sign the backup options as we do the original player. See missing out on Delap for £20m and signing BBD and Archer for £7m and £15m. And Ipswich will make money on Delap, while we'll be looking to spend more money on replacing BBD and Archer this summer.

Could just as easily spend £4m on the backup manager choice through sacking him and replacing him with someone else if he's unsuccessful.

Delap turned us down though. I see no indication that it was because we wouldn't pay the transfer fee. 

[notnowcato]

48 minutes ago, saintant said:

Let's avoid going for managers with a particular style. We need someone who is happy to try different formations to suit the occasion. Don't mind a preferred style but let's not tie ourselves to a manager welded to one way of playing - we've been down that particular road. A good coach is adaptable and that's what we need.

Unfortunately I think our Director, Spors, has a “particular style”.

[Vancouver Saint]

Rohl for me, with Cooper as a fallback option. I don't really know how good either are, but going on the reaction of Wednesday fans to Rohl's imminent departure it seems he was well liked there. They are sad to seem him go but also want to see him succeed and know their management is the issue,

[Vancouver Saint]

Just seen a BBC poll that shows 71% think we were wrong to have sacked RM - WTF! - who are these people?!🙄

[Holmes_and_Watson]

22 minutes ago, Vancouver Saint said:

Just seen a BBC poll that shows 71% think we were wrong to have sacked RM - WTF! - who are these people?!🙄

RM with a lot of time on his hands.

[revolution saint]

1 hour ago, hypochondriac said:

Delap turned us down though. I see no indication that it was because we wouldn't pay the transfer fee. 

Probably wages, I doubt he had much of a preference over either us or Ipswich.

[Saint86]

45 minutes ago, Vancouver Saint said:

Just seen a BBC poll that shows 71% think we were wrong to have sacked RM - WTF! - who are these people?!🙄

And that is the beauty of "propaganda football" in a nutshell.

[moonraker]

11 hours ago, Saint Gifford said:

Has anyone phoned Ian Holloway yet. What a Job at Swindle. Mad as a box of frogs, just what we need right now.

Holloway lives near me, occasionally bump into him in the chippy (true) he is definitely mad as a box of frogs, might just be mad enough to sort out our disfunctional squad.

[Convict Colony]

Spors has already said the high intensity pressing and physicality football is what clubs like us need to play.

Am happy with that also long it doesn't turn into the get to the box and pass it backwards game we experienced with Redmond etc and we get shots off or crosses in.

 

[CB Fry]

6 hours ago, Vancouver Saint said:

Just seen a BBC poll that shows 71% think we were wrong to have sacked RM - WTF! - who are these people?!🙄

Probably not Saints fans.

[goodymatt]

7 hours ago, Vancouver Saint said:

Just seen a BBC poll that shows 71% think we were wrong to have sacked RM - WTF! - who are these people?!🙄

I’d imagine it’s because Juric was even worse. We were right to change Martin but did it too late and brought in the wrong guy. But if you look at where we are today, would we have been any worse off sticking with Martin? I doubt it.

[Wiggles31]

56 minutes ago, Convict Colony said:

Spors has already said the high intensity pressing and physicality football is what clubs like us need to play.

Am happy with that also long it doesn't turn into the get to the box and pass it backwards game we experienced with Redmond etc and we get shots off or crosses in.

 

This is what has worked for us in the past and works currently works for Bournemouth and Brentford. Exactly what we should be opting for. 

[Nogginsfc]

7 hours ago, Vancouver Saint said:

Rohl for me, with Cooper as a fallback option. I don't really know how good either are, but going on the reaction of Wednesday fans to Rohl's imminent departure it seems he was well liked there. They are sad to seem him go but also want to see him succeed and know their management is the issue,

This is the problem with the love in for Rohl for me. 

Of course we should base our next appointment on what the "reaction" of gimps on twitter, and not on footballing reasons such as a manager who has taken a team up and kept them up, which matches our target.

For me, as long as the new manager has decent hair and can pull off a decent hip hip hooray to the Northam Wall, then that is all that matters.

Anyone who would rather Rohl over Cooper is basing it on non footballing reasons for me and more how they'll hold up in twitter battlee and how trendy they are and if they will cook. 

If he wasn't called Steve and looked like he ate a landmine, it would be a no brainer.

[gecko]

48 minutes ago, Nogginsfc said:

This is the problem with the love in for Rohl for me. 

Of course we should base our next appointment on what the "reaction" of gimps on twitter, and not on footballing reasons such as a manager who has taken a team up and kept them up, which matches our target.

For me, as long as the new manager has decent hair and can pull off a decent hip hip hooray to the Northam Wall, then that is all that matters.

Anyone who would rather Rohl over Cooper is basing it on non footballing reasons for me and more how they'll hold up in twitter battlee and how trendy they are and if they will cook. 

If he wasn't called Steve and looked like he ate a landmine, it would be a no brainer.

Fair to say that Rohl is probably seen by many as the more "glamorous" choice - young, up-and-coming, worked in far more high profile/calibre clubs than Cooper, possibly expected to have a "higher ceiling" as a result. He's also well known by Spors, so fits the mould pretty well.

It's definitely still a gamble though; as are all managerial appointments. He's worked under some excellent managers in his time already, but his own personal management is obviously pretty short and therefore not necessarily guaranteed.

With Cooper, he is at least a fairly known entity - his record definitely suggests he could improve the squad and should get promotion with a team like ours with time to spare. Does he fit the "high press" desired by the DoF; perhaps not. But I think we would see some consistent performances from a team of his. I loved watching the early high-press from Ralph's team, but honestly couldn't give a crap about winning with a high tempo, vs winning with a more pragmatic style, as long as it's winning more often than not.

I'd be pretty happy with either tbh; but my head still says Cooper is the better option to get us promoted first go, even if he feels a little boring to many.

[Wade Garrett]

We should go for Dick’s nipper.  He’s doing quite well at Villa.

[leesaint88]

9 hours ago, hypochondriac said:

Delap turned us down though. I see no indication that it was because we wouldn't pay the transfer fee. 

That was down to wages, from what I understand Ipswich trumped us by a significant amount too! Obviously they wanted to sail close to the PSR wind this season...

[hypochondriac]

1 minute ago, leesaint88 said:

That was down to wages, from what I understand Ipswich trumped us by a significant amount too! Obviously they wanted to sail close to the PSR wind this season...

If that was the case then I don't see why it would have been sensible to blow our wage structure out of the water for one player who wouldn't have kept us up anyway. Even if we had matched Ipswich there was no guarantee he would have come here anyway. 

[leesaint88]

10 minutes ago, gecko said:

Fair to say that Rohl is probably seen by many as the more "glamorous" choice - young, up-and-coming, worked in far more high profile/calibre clubs than Cooper, possibly expected to have a "higher ceiling" as a result. He's also well known by Spors, so fits the mould pretty well.

It's definitely still a gamble though; as are all managerial appointments. He's worked under some excellent managers in his time already, but his own personal management is obviously pretty short and therefore not necessarily guaranteed.

With Cooper, he is at least a fairly known entity - his record definitely suggests he could improve the squad and should get promotion with a team like ours with time to spare. Does he fit the "high press" desired by the DoF; perhaps not. But I think we would see some consistent performances from a team of his. I loved watching the early high-press from Ralph's team, but honestly couldn't give a crap about winning with a high tempo, vs winning with a more pragmatic style, as long as it's winning more often than not.

I'd be pretty happy with either tbh; but my head still says Cooper is the better option to get us promoted first go, even if he feels a little boring to many.

Fair analysis and pretty much how I feel. My only concern about Rohl is how he'll operate in a club where the pressure is really on with what will be a massive budget compared to Wednesday, personally I think Cooper will be more suited with the experience he has and ultimately he is a 'safer' option going forward.

[leesaint88]

1 minute ago, hypochondriac said:

If that was the case then I don't see why it would have been sensible to blow our wage structure out of the water for one player who wouldn't have kept us up anyway. Even if we had matched Ipswich there was no guarantee he would have come here anyway. 

Exactly that. The problem for us is that we had a large squad with a number back on premier league wages, Ipswich were in a slightly different position where they had a lower wage bill so they had a bit more wiggle room. Still, they certainly pushed as close as the PSR limit as they could get..