It's official: Southampton drop down to the Championship SaintsFC
Ankersen is one of the men at the forefront of football’s data revolution – but it has not worked at SouthamptonPitch invader squares up to Eddie Howe and shoves Newcastle boss during Leeds clashSolskjaer suggests 'snowflake' Man United players would ‘not have survived’ under FergieSir Jim Ratcliffe to open formal talks with Glazer family over Manchester United bidAnkersen wants to replicate the business model he successfully helped implement in his former guise as Brentford’s transfer...
Put bluntly, Saints simply tried to change too much too quickly and it was always going to be a tall order to ask a team of kids with little or zero Premier League experience to effectively learn on the job.Ankersen overruling senior colleagues and letting midfielder Oriol Romeu leave at the back end of the summer transfer window was a massive mistake.
Despite a huge overhaul of the squad, Ankersen also failed to deliver then-manager Ralph Hasenhuttl the one position he desperately craved – a centre-forward.After overly ambitious moves for Benfica’s Goncalo Ramos and Cody Gakpo failed, Hasenhuttl was left with an inconsistent Che Adams, a confidence-drained Adam Armstrong and the unknown Sekou Mara to carry his attack.
The most bizarre element of this appointment was that Ankersen spent months planning to replace Hasenhuttl and flirted with the idea of hiring famed River Plate chief Marcelo Gallardo among other big-name contenders.
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