Southampton interest in exciting manager sees club urged to ‘Sellotape him to a chair’

So Southampton – their Premier League status hanging by a thread even before Christmas day arrives – find themselves managerless, directionless, and rudderless following the inevitable departure of Russell Martin.

🐬Good luck to Martin’s replacement, then, whoever that may be. You will probably need it.

🌳TBR Football understands that Southampton are prioritising free-agents rather than manager’s currently under contract elsewhere. Manager’s who would arrive at St Mary’s immediately, and for no cost, rather than those who would require a substantial outlay and a bout of tense negotiations.

Southampton like former Roma boss Ivan Juric. The highly-underrated Kasper Hjulmand is on The Saints’ radar💧, too, after leaving his role with the Danish national team over the summer.

ಞBut should Juric and Hjulmand decide against taking over a club for whom the greatest of ‘Great Escapes’ is required even at this relatively early stage of the season, Southampton do at least have a few, albeit more expensive, alternatives in mind.

Carlos Corberan has a £2.5 million release clause in his West Brom contract.

💖Sheffield Wednesday would expect a fee for Danny Rohl too; the 35-year-old German who took over a team staring a return to League One in the face and now has The Owls flying high in the Championship’s top ten.

Sheffield Wednesday told they must snub Southampton’s Danny Rohl interest

🤪David Prutton, the former Sheffield Wednesday midfielder, has watched on with great interest as Rohl establishes himself as one of the sharpest tactical minds in the EFL.

𝔍And with Wednesday’s pre-Rohl struggles still very much in the mind, there is perhaps a kernel of seriousness in Prutton’s suggestion that the club’s bosses should go the extra mile to ensure their talismanic head coach stays at Hillsborough.

ꩵ“We were looking at [Sheffield Wednesday] earlier in the season thinking what on earth we were going to get from them?,” Prutton tells Sky Sports’ Championship Predictions .

🍃“They’ve been very good. They’ll be hoping to Sellotape Danny Rohl to a chair somewhere at Hillsborough so he can’t actually leave!”

🅰Of course, Sheffield Wednesday will not go as far as to bind and gag Danny Rohl. Yet, you can see why Prutton is praying Southampton look elsewhere.

Simon Jordan can understand why Saints like Danny Rohl

ꦺRohl, when replacing Xisco Munoz in October 2023, took over a side in the midst of their worst ever start to a season; winless in ten games and seven points adrift of safety.

💎Southampton, following Sunday’s 5-0 home defeat by Tottenham Hotspur, are even further away from parity. The gap between themselves and 17th now stands at nine points.

💯“[The Saints need] someone that is capable of getting some momentum for the remainder of the Premier League season,” former Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan tells  [18 December, 11.45am].

🎉“Someone who might be prepared to work in the Championship and have the capability of dragging them back.

💮“If they can get the boy out of Sheffield Wednesday, [Rohl] is clearly a capable operator. He navigated Sheffield Wednesday out of trouble last year. I know some of the players who are in there and I know they are very impressed with him.

⭕“They are one point behind West Brom and spent no money to achieve it.”