Will Still: Southampton Regret, 'Video Game Manager' & Messi’s PSG | The Overlap Breakdown
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4.3 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Overlap Breakdown, Harrison sits down with one of football’s most exciting young coaches, Will Still.
From his unconventional journey into coaching - to becoming the youngest manager in Europe’s top five leagues, Will shares the reality behind his rapid rise. He talks about the famous fines at Stade de Reims and responds to his “video game manager” label.
Will reflects on his time at Southampton, opening up on the challenges of English football, what didn’t go to plan and whether he was given enough time.
The conversation also explores life at the top level, including preparing to face PSG’s front three of Messi, Mbappé and Neymar, and working with young talents like Abdukodir Khusanov and Hugo Ekitike.
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| 0:00.0 | The players go to the board and say, |
| 0:02.8 | Will's got to stay. |
| 0:03.7 | I almost felt like a foreigner. Yeah. Walking into that environment. Even now, it makes no sense. Yeah. It's like this really heavy. And I remember us all looking at each other and going, I couldn't watch it. Yeah. Hated it. I absolutely hated it. Didn't want to watch it. Didn't want to talk about it. Just leave me alone. It's really hard obviously to touch on. It's like |
| 0:23.0 | Southampton |
| 0:24.0 | where you just don't get the time. I made mistakes. I'll hold my hands up every day to that. |
| 0:29.7 | Without further ado, welcome to the overlap breakdown. It's a pleasure to have you on. |
| 0:35.0 | One of the most, as we've just spoken about, one of the most unique journeys I've ever seen in sort of football, modern football. |
| 0:41.4 | At one point, you were the youngest manager in Europe's top five divisions at 30 years old. |
| 0:45.3 | And we are now going to speak about your career from back to front. |
| 0:49.4 | And, yeah, it's absolutely amazing what you've done. |
| 0:52.7 | I would like to touch on, so we did Steve McLaren a couple weeks ago, |
| 0:56.4 | and I'd love to start it in a similar way. |
| 0:58.5 | And I think I said something about Steve McLaren, |
| 1:01.7 | and it's even more apparent to you consider you got in it so early. |
| 1:05.4 | If I could ask you, why coaching? |
| 1:09.4 | Because it was the closest thing to being a footballer. |
| 1:12.3 | And it allowed me to work within the professional game of football. |
| 1:21.2 | But I'll be honest, the first kind of ambition wasn't to be a coach or a manager or whatever. |
| 1:29.3 | All through my kind of youth up't to be a coach or a manager or whatever. All through my |
| 1:30.2 | kind of youth |
| 1:30.8 | up until I was |
| 1:31.6 | about 16, 17 |
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