Ex-Southampton CEO Reveals The CHAOS At The Saints Which Saw Them Go Down Last Season! 😬⬇️🔥 

Appointing Nathan Jones to save your aide from relegation in the prem was one of the worst recent appointments in the prem. It basically told their fans to get ready for the championship lol.

Nathan Jones was fighting a losing battle. No manager in the world would’ve kept us up. Ralph was best placed to…

Southampton has sold all of their best players. That's why they went down. You can't sell all of your players over the course of many seasons and expect better results.

the amount of talent sold and not replaced meant it was only a matter of time before they went down tbh...

Saints issues were compounded over 5 years starting with replacing Van Dijk with Hoedt/Vestergaard, Pelle with Charlie Austin/Gabbiadini, Mane with Redmond..not getting the best out of Tadic, and wasting money on dross like Lemina, Elyonoussi, Carillo, Boufal, meaning our hands were tied during the Gao reign then in 22-23 summer transfer window Hassenhuttl despite having spent the most we've ever done couldn't get a tune out of the team (probably also due to the loss of 5 senior members out of the dressing room Long, Romeo, Forster, Bednarek and Stephens)

Well, there is not a single reason for the relegation, but the discussion here captures the latter stages of the poor management from the leadership team above the manager. The crux of it though is that Ralf was kept on into the season when things had clearly gone stale both in terms of tactics and his relationship with the players. Instead of dispensing with him and instigating a new vision with the benefit of pre-season, the leadership team thought they could band-aid things by hiring a good assistant for Ralf in Reuben Selles and by a huge steroid injection into the recruitment team signing young, but very raw talents. I think ultimately, we lacked a sufficient leader to oversee a change at that point (which we now have in Jason Wilcox), and we were left with a gung-ho approach to signings but a very conservative approach to the first team management. The appointment of Nathan Jones was kerosene on the lit fire, because he was appointed outside of a transfer window and inherited a squad who did not have many players with the attributes his football philosophy required. I would agree with Martin Semmens that the subsequent (predictable) lack of results with the ill-suited squad led to fans and players losing buy in with him as a manager, but as Simon says, there seems to have been a startling lack of forethought about whether this guy could talk the talk effectively in front of the nation's sports reporters. Most fans listened for 5 minutes and were aghast. One can blame the poor finances and poor ownership for the previous 3-4 years where we sold players and replaced ineffectively, and it's true that weakened us up. But it was a super weak relegation battle that year, and with more coherent leadership and recruitment we could have stayed up. The ultimate majority of blame has to lie with Sports Republic's original approach in taking over - they identified the need to make major changes, but needed to make the key appointments and a proper timetable before making these changes. They also seemed to let one management figure take a very wild approach in the transfer market, especially in January of that season, which is farcical in the PL in this day and age with the litany of other examples of what happens when clubs sign players with no strategy behind it.

Southampton Dodged a bullet with Yank Lampard!

Saints were in serious trouble before Jones arrived but it was a terrible appointment. The board were clearly panicking and that will always lead to poor decision making. The January signings were panic-led too. When Russell Martin came in he said he was shocked by the level of negativity in the club. Fortunately we seem to have removed the right people and the rot has been stopped.

Semmens is as much at fault for our downfall over the last few seasons as any over. Totally inept, that's why he's not at the club anymore.

As a outsider looking in and all the things ive heard from their own fans. Its the ownership thats the problem.. they'll happily sell your best players and not bring in viable replacements for them.. look at Bale, Wallcott, Lovren, Alderwereild, Van Dijk, Luke Shaw, Lallana, Mane..

One thing he didn’t compromise was the quality of drugs he was smoking

Cryptonite to Jim White: Measured and undramatic answers to loaded questions.

He put the fans noses out almost immediately

Semmens is an absolute onion if he rates Jones that highly. Semmens is an onion.

Players did not have the energy to play RH’s high pressing out of possession style over multiple seasons, the current high possession style is much more sustainable over long term

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Saints were always in trouble anyway, but Sports Republic came in and didn't have their preferred CEO, sporting director or manager. They should have cleared house in the summer and reset that season. Makes like difficult when there's competing philosophies in the club. Saints made some seriously bad recruitment decisions since the Poch/Korean era when we sold our best players and replaced them with poor replacements. Ralph was a good manager but his time had probably ran its course. Then the horrible appointment of Jones mid-season sealed the deal. Contrast that with now, where we have the ownership, the board, the manager and the players aligned under the same plan and everything has got better. Recruitment has been excellent this season and the young players are coming good. 22 game win streak in the league now

Kept selling their best players, eventually you’ll have a year where you get caught out, now they better hope to get right back up as the longer yer down there the harder it’ll be to get back

All the people writing about how they sold their best.places year after year. What else were they supposed to do. Southampton, amongst other clubs, are selling clubs, or moreover, a club that gets bullied into selling by the bigger clubs. Wake up people!!!

Is there a part two?

Jesse March turning down a club like Southampton is a joke! Wtf has he done in the game 😂

we shoulda been relegated ages ago with our standard of team, ralph kept us up many a season, nothing but respext for him

We should never sacked hassenhutel. The issue was we never backed hassenhutel and give the tools for him to succeed at saints. We had a negative net spend and he overachieved for 3 years but eventually it was going to catch up with us with lack of spending plus buy inexperienced young players.

It's funny how knowing how bad nathan jones was, he still beat man city in the league cup in the same season they won the treble.

If we where going to take a risk it should have been at the beginning of the season you then have a chance to correct. Just creating massive disruption midway through the season was never a good idea.

As a brighton fan i hope we dont go the way of southampton selling out best players and we cant keep finding gems ik we are different clubs and i trust tony bloom but its always in the background

Worst manager ever even worse than ian branfoot

A very good interview, a terrible video title

Recruitment is always a risk, no matter what analysis goes into it.

Cor Nathan Jones loves himself doesn't he

Nathan jones was a liability Ralph was tired things happen for a reason

southampton lived in a fantasy world of either bringing through gems or developing players, selling them on for big money but never reinvesting. FHH was treated badly as a manager cos he did well but the club didnt seem to ever back him in transfers and then they went down

😂😂😂

thanks christ we didnt get jessie marsch complete pric*

Semmens part of the jokers who got us relegated

SCUMhampton!

Nathan Jones rubbed the fans up the wrong way from day one with stupid comments. He belittled the fans and the players. He also said he was one of the best in Europe at the time 💀