For personal reasons, and especially his undisguised attraction to English football, 33-year-old Belgian-British technician Will Still made the decision to leave RC Lens last May. After a season completed only on an initial three-year contract signed with the Sang et Or.
Barely a week after officially announcing his departure from Lens, the person concerned signed for Southampton, in the Championship – the second division of English football. Its mission: to allow the Saints to reconnect with the elite, the Premier League, left at the end of the 2022-2023 season.
But now, the beautiful story turns sour. After an encouraging start to the season, Southampton have only managed one success in the last ten rounds of the championship. So much so that the club is in 18e position in the ranking (out of 24 teams). Four lengths from the red zone and six units already from sixth place, synonymous with the promotion play-offs.
A coach already in the hot seat
Flanked by the second squad in the Championship if we are to believe the overall value lent to the Saints by the specialized site Transfermarkt (188.50 million euros for all players combined), the club from the south of the kingdom cannot afford such a disaster given the investments made this summer again.
Last Monday, Will Still's troops fell on the lawn of Bristol City (3-1). And the former Reims strategist took it for his stride, upset by the Saints supporters who had made the trip. “ You're getting sacked in the morning » (“ You will be fired tomorrow morning “), they sang in unison, reports the English press, which estimates that the hours of the native Walloon are already numbered across the Channel.
