Southampton have placed Simon Rusk and Adam Lallana in charge until the end of the season following the sacking of Ivan Juric.
The newly relegated Premier League club will now run a thorough process to find a new manager, with Sheffield Wednesday’s highly regarded Danny Röhl believed to top their list of potential permanent replacements.
johannes spors, Southampton’s new technical director, who previously worked with Röhl at RB Leipzig, is leading the hunt for Juric’s successor after Southampton activated the clause in the Croatian’s contract to let him go once relegation was confirmed following Sunday’s loss away to Tottenham Hotspur.
Lallana, 36, and still a player at Southampton, is considering making a move into management and coaching and will work with Rusk for the final seven games of the season.
Alongside Röhl, Liam Rosenior has also won admiring glances from Southampton. Rosenior has guided Strasbourg, owned by Chelsea’s BlueCo owners, to fourth place in Ligue 1 and potential Champions League qualification.
BlueCo is aware that Rosenior is attracting interest from England, but hopes that he will choose to stay at Strasbourg and potentially compete in Europe next season. Rosenior also has experience of managing in the Championship, having taken Hull City to seventh spot and the brink of the play-offs before being sacked.
Juric sacked after 108 days and one win
Juric had hoped to stay with the club and try to bring them back from the Championship, but his dismal reign has been brought to an end, having overseen just one win in 14 Premier League games.
Rusk took temporary charge following the dismissal of Russell Martin in December and before Juric signed a deal taking him up to June 2026. Instead, the former Roma coach’s tenure lasted just 108 days.
Southampton’s defeat by Tottenham meant they were the first team in the Premier League to be relegated after just 31 games. Their points total of only 10 is still one behind the worst-ever recorded, by Derby County in 2007-08.
It is the second successive Premier League campaign in which Southampton have made two managerial changes during the season. In 2022-23, they sacked Ralph Hasenhüttl in November and then Nathan Jones in February, with caretaker Ruben Selles unable to stop the rot as they lost their top-flight status after 11 seasons.
Röhl previously worked at Southampton under Hasenhüttl and was ...
