Hasenhuttl's Grip on Saints & Gamble on Youth
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Host Mark Chapman is joined by The Athletic's Southampton writer Jacob Tanswell and Flo Lloyd-Hughes, to explore the huge gamble the club's new owners are taking on young talent - despite mounting concerns over Premier League relegation and manager Ralph Hasenhutll's job...
The panel detail and discuss the new profile of player being targeted by the club and why new Head of Recruitment, Joe Shields, is the right man for the right time. Plus, what it's like to actually play for Hasenhuttl, why a tactical shift has dented his popularity among supporters and what the last few years have done to his once glowing reputation on the continent.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:03.0 | Well in case you missed it amid all the handshake drama at Stamford Bridge |
| 0:08.9 | and Manchester United's deepening crisis and the endless carousel of new arrivals at Nottingham Forest, |
| 0:15.1 | things have been getting very interesting for Ralph Hassanhutle at Southampton. |
| 0:18.6 | There's reports of player and rest, a bloated squad. |
| 0:22.5 | There's an entirely new coaching staff. |
| 0:25.1 | And many are predicting that they could be relegated this season. |
| 0:29.2 | Joining us for a closer look at this, Flo Lloyd Hughes |
| 0:32.6 | and the Athletic Southampton reporter Jacob Tanswell. |
| 0:35.7 | I'm Mark Chapman. |
| 0:36.8 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. |
| 0:44.2 | It wasn't even his way or the highway. And you see when Stans were losing 9-0, it's often |
| 0:48.4 | just him on the touchline of his own, hands on hips. This is bigger than Hassan Houtel, what |
| 0:52.8 | we're discussing. Back then there was talking by Munich, big interest, |
| 0:55.7 | Dortmund had a, had a view. |
| 0:57.3 | What is it that you bought the club for |
| 0:59.2 | if it's not to try and push them higher up the table? |
| 1:06.3 | Right, let's get straight to her then. |
| 1:07.9 | A 4-1 defeat at Tottenham on the opening day before rescuing a point at home to Leeds on Saturday. |
| 1:16.3 | It's his fourth full season in charge for Ralph Hassan Huttall. So is he under serious pressure already, Jacob? |
| 1:24.7 | I think he is. I think it's for the first time in this Salampton tenure where there's not much credit in the bank anymore. I think it's a combination of the end of last season because they went away to Spurs in February. They won three, two and that was seen as the best of Ralph Hartson's all. After that, they won one in 12 and then the pressures on. And at the end of the last season that the hierarchy, Sports Republic, |
| 1:44.3 | the new owners, had a decision to make, whether to part with Ralph after three, three and a half years, or completely overhauled as coach and staff. And they actually took the more complex, more difficult route of getting rid of always first team coaching staff and bringing new players in, bringing new coaches in, sorry. So, it seems like they're putting their trust in Ralph, you just feel amongst |
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