This is a disgrace. I'm not a Southampton fan but I take my boys to games about half a dozen times a year. They are becoming a very decent side and play good attacking football. The fans also hold Adkins in very high regard and they will be amazed at this decision. Football has genuinely gone mad but the upside is that another club will benefit by getting a very decent young manager. Absolutely shocking and disgraceful decision.

I hope not for the sake of the fans but this could turn into another Blackburn (Allardyce to Kean to Berg etc etc) or Wolves (McCarthy to Connor to Solbakken etc etc) situation.  The guy is obviously a good manager so why sack him?

Got to agree with everyone on this thread. Just a daft and unfair decision to sack him. Hope they go down because of it now.

lol

Hard to believe.

Adkins looks like a manager with a lot of potential, has made mistakes but is clearly learning very fast and was turning the corner. Draw 2-2 at chelsea and get the sack.

I suppose he will be another clubs gain.

I would be gutted if i was a saints fan.

Everton still odds against for Monday night. Yes please.

Seems to be British managers are surplus to requirements to foreign owners once they reach the holy grail of the premiership.

Not quite the same.

I feel Chelsea fans are more anti Benitez than sympathetic towards Di Matteo. Most wouldn't have batted an eyelid if Jose or Pep had been lined up to replace him.

I think the Saints fans reaction would have been the same with any realistic replacement.

Unbelievable.

wonder if the saints have a few bookie accounts and wanted to get some easy cash

what a bizarre sacking.

Must be a fav. to take the vacant Blackpool FC manager's job. Comes from the North West, played for Tranmere, (not far way). Would be good for the team !!!

A very short sighted and stupid sacking. Adkins is a good young Manager with a lot of potential who has improved the Saints year on year and was now getting it right in the premier league. I believe he still had plenty to offer our club and yet Adkins has been replaced by a nobody, with at best an average record.

I now fear for the Saint this year. With this totally unjustified and unwanted disruption I can only see this ending in disappointment and relegation for us this year.

He shouldn't have  said they'd be challenging for europe and maybe the title, they ended up in a relegation battle.

The good guys very rarely receive the plaudits they deserve, has proven himself in the harder divisions of English football working with average squads and on shoestring budgets.
Wouldn't wish relegation on the Saints for the fans sake and doubt that Adkins himself would want to see such an outcome at the end of the season. A couple of home games only attended by away fans would speak volumes though, albeit unlikely to happen.
The Saints loss will hopefully be someone else's gain, though it is hard to imagine that such a decision as this mornings will not affect Adkins self confidence in some way.

lol @Southampton fans on that saintsweb.

what a bunch of gayers, if that was my club id be f*****g raging, most of them are coming out with 'get behind the new manager!'

any club with a passionate support could organise a one game boycott/walk out, at least some form of protrst.  maybe its a south coast thing, proving themselves to be a bit soft down there.

Can see both sides of the argument.

1. Yes they're rightly fuming at the managers sacking and the board need to be told they've made a poor choice
2. However it's not the players or the new managers fault so you still have to get behind them. What good would a boycott do?

this is a major coup for saouthampton.

pottechino is a seriously quality coach who had to continually sell at espanyol.


i rate him a lot higher than rodgers

next game is infront of the sky cameras, a walk out or boycott would send a message to the owners that the fans exist.  just one game would do the trick, its on TV anyway so the fans could head to the pub for it.

sounds like they're plastics and happy clappers tho, shame.

MA wont be out of work long.

Their cup run was ended by a regional third-division side and that set the template for the horrendous year to follow. When a hapless, hopeless Real Zaragoza beat Espanyol 2-0 in Barcelona, coach Mauricio Pochettino described it as "a little accident" a minor blip. It was not.

Espanyol tumbled down the table to finish 14th and the Argentine was fortunate not to join the twelve top-flight coaches who lost their job last season, his team were crude and he had no idea how to halt their slide. His side were 18th in the fair-play table, with more yellow cards received than any other club.

Espanyol's youthful beauty had been replaced by a snarling beast who did not know how to lose gracefully.

The new season did not bring relief as they picked up just two points from their opening seven matches and sat bottom. By the end of November, they had managed two wins from 13 games and remained 20th.

Crowds in their new, 40,000-seat stadium tumbled from nearly 30,000 a year ago to just 15,500 for one league match. The Blanquiazules have 21,000 season-ticket holders - over 5,000 of them decided that they could not be bothered to attend games they had already paid for, the football was awful.

The beleaguered club once heralded as a role model for a medium-sized operation were falling apart. Just 7,463 watched a November Copa del Rey game against Sevilla. They lost 3-0.

The president departed and Pochettino was finally dismissed in November. Replaced by former Mexico and Atletico Madrid coach Javier Aguirre, fortunes finally began to improve. Espanyol drew his first three matches and held Real Madrid away. Then they beat Deportivo in their last match.




Sounds a 'promising' progressive manager