Nathan Jones

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The worrying precedents for both Southampton and Nathan Jones (The Guardian)

Football Daily used to love pontificating about the sport's lamentable culture of instant gratification, until we started to get a bit bored of the subject.

But given the mood at St Mary’s, and the fact that Southampton are bottom of the table, we wouldn’t want to see his Expected Reign data. Surely Everton are in grave danger of having the newest, largest and most expensive stadium in the Championship, when construction is completed in 2025? He deserves time to put that right, and the work he did at Luton suggests that, if they can be bothered to wait, Southampton could have an extremely good manager on their hands. In 2004, the year the phrase “boy, that escalated quickly” was introduced (and then misquoted by all of us) in the film Anchorman, Southampton had two permanent managers, Paul Sturrock and Steve Wigley, who lasted 13 and 17 games respectively. Football Daily used to love pontificating about the sport’s lamentable culture of instant gratification, until we started to get a bit bored of the subject. I’ve never gone into a place like I left at Luton where everything is on a high and on the up.” Jones’s comments might have carried a touch more heft had he not lost to a team managed by Steve Cooper, who grew up in Hopkinstown, another former Welsh mining community.

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Has Nathan Jones bitten off more than he can chew at Southampton ... (Sky Sports)

Is time running out for Southamptons Nathan Jones just four games into his first crack at Premier League management?; Jones is second manager to lose each ...

Abandoning the blueprint in favour of proven talent may well be the only legitimate play yet to be explored. If Jones is deemed to be out of his depth by the Southampton hierarchy, more hiring and firing is surely going to prove costly. As if the only hope was to burden Ward-Prowse with a moment of solo magic, or a pinpoint delivery which would land fortuitously on the head of Che Adams. Jones himself looked bereft on the touchline, the weight of the world on his shoulders, while his players looked lost. Certainly, Jones would not be the first in a senior position to march through Staplewood's revolving exit door - enforced or otherwise. Forest retreated in a robust shape and mopped up the seconds. A far cry from the, at times, fast-paced high-octane football that initially endeared fans to the previous regime. This was a six-pointer and Steve Cooper came away with all the spoils. It was targeted directly at the man in the home dugout. Indeed, a series of questionable decisions have blighted the south coast club. The jibe was not aimed at the referee. Jones hasn't overseen that entire period, but his tenure has begun with a succession of doom and gloom.

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LEWIS STEELE: Nathan Jones has Southampton staring down a ... (Daily Mail)

LEWIS STEELE: Nathan Jones made sure to clap all four corners of the stadium as he trudged off the pitch after Southampton's chastening defeat by Nottingham ...

We are in early days with the manager and it’s going to take a bit of time. I set them up, but we need to give ourselves a better opportunity to win the game. Something has to change quickly and we need a bit of luck.’ They have to bear with us, it’s a different squad from one we have had before. Then we can start to change the reception. They are yet to score from open play and are rock bottom of the Premier League. The Welshman has started 19 players in four games and altered systems, regularly changing shape within games. Even the Saints legend will struggle to find a conspiracy theory to blame for this demise. It is a simple equation: the recruitment policy has been poor from owners Sport Republic, who have been in place a year this week. The players were jeered and some could not face it. Of their 10 summer signings, only loanee Ainsley Maitland-Niles had made more than five Premier League appearances. ‘You don’t know what you’re doing,’ sang the majority of Southampton fans at St Mary’s, getting louder each time.

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'Nathan Jones is sinking quicker than the Titanic' and 'had better ... (talkSPORT.com)

Gabby Agbonlahor believes Southampton boss Nathan Jones had better players at Luton Town, with sections of Saints fans already calling for the Welshma.

It’s a tough job, we know that but that’s the role of a manager at a football club.” £10) on selected events at odds of 2.00+, in 7 days. Get up to £25 in free bets on selected events + 25 Free Spins on D10S Maradona slot. Bonuses expire in 7 days. “We have to turn that around but at the minute we haven’t been able to do that. “Brutally honestly you’re looking at the squad of players, the quality and like ‘wow what I have done here?’ I left a better team to come to this.”

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'Ridiculous' - Sport Republic sent Southampton message as Nathan ... (HampshireLive)

"You have got rid of the former manager [Ralph Hasenhuttl] to bring in Nathan Jones, who doesn't have any Premier League experience, he is relatively young and ...

"This whole culture of managers literally coming and going, for me, it needs to change. And Robson-Kanu has said that the owners will be having to think about his future, if fans vote with their feet. [Kyle Walker-Peters pinpoints key Southampton issue amid Premier League relegation battle verdict](https://www.hampshirelive.news/sport/football/football-news/kyle-walker-peters-southampton-relegation-7995869) [Southampton player ratings vs Nottingham Forest as Lyanco has nightmare in 1-0 defeat](https://www.hampshirelive.news/sport/football/football-news/southampton-player-ratings-nottingham-forest-7995501) [Southampton vs Nottingham Forest recap: St Mary's rings with boos as Saints lose 1-0](https://www.hampshirelive.news/sport/football/football-news/southampton-nottingham-forest-live-match-7993346) [Ian Wright delivers damning verdict on Southampton and Nathan Jones after Nottingham Forest loss](https://www.hampshirelive.news/sport/football/football-news/ian-wright-southampton-nathan-jones-7996349) [Saints' next four games compared to relegation rivals Wolves, West Ham, Everton and more](https://www.hampshirelive.news/sport/football/football-news/southampton-fixtures-wolves-west-ham-7987679) "It needs to change, because if you bring a manager in on a long-term contract, hold yourself accountable that you have made the decision to get rid of a former manager [in Hasenhuttl], who we have said had potentially overachieved, but now the ambitions of the club have changed and shifted and all of a sudden they get rid of the manager and bring in another one who cannot deliver in terms of what the previous manager was doing." "From a perspective of accountability, the owners making that decision to bring him in and then, at this stage of the season, beginning to have to think about it [changing manager], and they will have to think about it because when the fans don't turn up, it begins to become a serious issue. "You have got rid of the former manager [Ralph Hasenhuttl] to bring in Nathan Jones, who doesn't have any Premier League experience, he is relatively young and the players he has managed up until this point are going to be different than going into a Premier League club that has been there for a period of time.

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Southampton, Nathan Jones and the relegation threat to club's ... (Telegraph.co.uk)

New owners Sport Republic targeted youth last summer but find themselves looking for experience in an emergency January transfer window.

The physical demands of the Premier League has been a problem for many of the young signings. Yet with the departure in the summer of experienced older figures like Oriol Romeu and Shane Long there was another element to Southampton’s squad that needed to be addressed. These are big changes to a club that, for all its imperfections, is competing in its 11th successive season in the Premier League. At Luton Town he reached the Championship play-offs last season on a fraction of the budget of other clubs. The chief commercial officer David Thomas is also to depart the club. Ankersen now runs the football side of the club. Sport Republic had spent around £200 million on the takeover including the clearing of debt and there has been more investment since in infrastructure. The year 2022 was a bad one for Saints. For Saints, who signed six players under the age of 21 in the summer, it is an admission that not every decision by the new owners has worked out. In the top five last year was the Luton Town manager Nathan Jones, and that factor was such a key influence in [his appointment at Southampton in November](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/11/08/southampton-take-leap-faith-nail-biter-nathan-jones/). This month they will have to do again with a transfer window upgrade of your to £30 million that will begin with the Croatia striker Mislav Orsic, who had his medical on Thursday ahead of a £6 million move from Dinamo Zagreb. They have invested additional funds in the club, but on the pitch, performance has gradually declined.

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