Was Russell Martin’s dismissal Southampton Sack Ivan Juric?
It would always have been a struggle to keep Southampton in the Premier League, even before their poor transfer window.
THE Departure of technical director Jason WilcoxA great supporter of the former Martin of Scotland, at Manchester United last year he left the former coach head without a crucial ally and vital support.
Southampton returned to the Premier League without sufficiently replacing Wilcox, who left them without a position and a key experience.
There was frustration for the property as CEO Phil Parsons – who joined Dyson in July 2023 – had a limited experience in the game and the club fought to move quite quickly to do business last summer.
The goal for the season was to avoid relegation and build the value of the team, something they have done with Tyler Dibling’s emergence – Although it is unlikely that their evaluation of £ 100 million reports is reached.
Martin had a playing style based on patients and based on possession-quolosa that he had implemented since he became MK Dons Manager in 2019 and continued in Swansea.
It was something that Southampton crossed and because they were so determined to bring him by the swans after relegation in 2023, A move that turned across the way when Swansea brought Martin into court.
“Every team we had had similar but we had to find a different way”, He said after losing against wolves in November.
“In Mk Dons we had two strong and powerful central, so we played two attackers and we found a way to score goals. In Swansea we didn’t have wings, so we had to play defenders or midfielders.
“Last season we had so much attacker power for the championship that we scored many goals.
“Now the boys are doing what we have been said that we could not have so much of the ball in the Premier League, but there must be the same mentality that there was last year.
“Whatever the style of play, the game is to beat your opponent and dominate your opponent, and we don’t do it enough yet.”
Style criticism came while the saints have fought and the toxic atmosphere of St Mary’s over the last few weeks – Included how Tottenham scored four goals in 25 minutes in Martin’s final game – made the situation unsustainable.
The errors took place too often. The tone was set by the error of the goalkeeper Alex McCarthy to give Joelinton the winner in the victory for the opening day of the Newcastle in August – and it is perhaps naive to think that Southampton would have survived this season.
But Martin had ridden the storm – difficult in a football culture that requires everything yesterday – perhaps he would have been the best person to mount a promotion challenge.
It could be dependent on how psychologically scarred the team and the club were from relegation, and it is an imaginative suggestion but the pedigree was there.
