Next Southampton Manager Odds

Southampton are on the lookout for a new manager following the sacking of Russell Martin in the aftermath of the Saints’ humiliating 5-0 home defeat to Tottenham Hotspur.

The 38-year-old managed to earn promotion to the Premier League with the St Mary’s club last season as they won the 2024 Championship play-off final at the expense of Leeds United. However, things quickly turned sour in the top-flight, as the South Coast club have accumulated just five points from 16 league matches.

Martin oversaw 73 matches as Southampton manager, winning 33, drawing 14 and losing 26, equating to a 45% win percentage.

Sheffield Wednesday manager Danny Rohl is a name that will interest many, having worked wonders with the Owls since joining them in October 2023.

Rohl, has an excellent coaching pedigree having coached at RB Leipzig, Southampton and Bayern Munich while also previously being the assistant manager of the German National Team prior to taking over at Hillsborough in October 2023 with the club looking like certainties to be relegated to League One.

However, the 35-year-old oversaw a run of form that saw Wednesday win 16 and draw six of their remaining 38 matches in 2023/24, meaning that the Owls finished 20th-place against all the odds. So far this campaign, Wednesday sit 9th in the standings with 29 points after 21 games.

West Bromwich Albion manager Carlos Corberan is looked upon as an outsider for the vacancy at Southampton.

The 41-year-old Spaniard first came to England back in 2017 Leeds United’s Under 23s manager before Marcelo Bielsa promoted him to the role of First Team coach.

Corberan has since managed the likes of Huddersfield Town between July 2020 and July 2022, where he finished as play-off final runner-up to Nottingham Forest. Since then, he has had a failed spell as manager of Olympiakos where he was sacked after just 11 games, before restoring his glowing reputation at West Bromwich Albion.

At West Brom, Corberan has won 46 of his 106 matches in charge, turning the club around from one that was lingering towards the bottom of the Championship table, to a side that are competing for the play-off places.

David Moyes is rumoured to be in contention for the job at Southampton following his departure from West Ham at the end of the 2023/24 season.

The 61-year-old left the Irons after 231 matches in charge during his second spell at the London Stadium with a good reputation, having overseen the Irons' qualification for European football three times in his four full seasons at the club, on top of their sensational Europa Conference League triumph in the 2022/23 campaign at the expense of Fiorentina.

Moyes is also well known for his time at Everton between March 2002 and June 2013, where he oversaw 518 games in charge, developing the club from relegation candidates to a side that regularly challenged for European football on a fairly limited budget.

Kasper Hjulmand is an outsider for the vacancy at Southampton, having departed his role as Denmark national team manager at the end of Euro 2024.

The 52-year-old sensationally lead the Danes to the semi-finals of Euro 2020 where they were knocked out by England. However, that was as good as things got for Hjulmand as Denmark manager, as they failed to advance from the Group Stages at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, while at Euro 2024, he saw his side beaten in the Round of 16 by host nation Germany.

Prior to his time as manager of the Denmark national team, Hjulmand had managed the likes of Nordsjaelland on two occasions, where he won the Danish Superliga in the 2011/12 season. But, he did have an unsuccessful 24 game spell as manager of Mainz from May 2014 to February 2015 where he managed to win just five matches.

Could Graham Potter make a shock return to Southampton? The Englishman last took charge of Chelsea in April 2023, where he lasted just seven months following his switch from Brighton to London.

Prior to joining Chelsea, Potter was one of the most highly regarded managers in the Premier League, and many believed it was only a matter of time before he was poached by a bigger club. He won 42 of 135 matches at Brighton and guided them to a ninth-place finish during the 2021/22 campaign.

The 49-year-old’s longest managerial stint was with Swedish club Östersund, who he managed between 2011 and 2018. He then returned to the UK with Swansea before being appointed by Brighton.

Potter’s time in charge of Chelsea was a disaster, as he won just seven Premier League games and left the Blues in 11th, 14 points off the top four.

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