Southampton Appoint 'Prodigy' Will Still As New Manager After Relegation From PL

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Last Updated:May 25, 2025, 21:04 IST

Still launched his managerial vocation successful Belgium and past followed up astatine Reims –- wherever helium became the youngest manager successful Europe's apical 5 leagues -- earlier moving to Lens.

Will Still leaves RC Lens to determination to Southampton (X)

Southampton announced Sunday they had appointed Will Still arsenic their caller manager aft helium agreed a three-year declaration with the relegated Premier League club.

The 32-year-old — calved successful Belgium to English parents — volition get astatine St Mary’s having guided Lens to an eighth-place decorativeness successful France’s Ligue 1 this season.

His assignment was announced hardly an hr earlier kick-off successful Southampton’s last lucifer of the season, astatine location to Arsenal.

The southbound seashore broadside are already guaranteed to decorativeness bottommost of the Premier League aft managing conscionable 2 wins and 12 points successful full from their erstwhile 37 league fixtures.

There had agelong been speculation that Still, lone successful complaint astatine Lens for 1 season, would determination to England successful bid to beryllium person to his tv presenter spouse Emma Saunders, who is being treated for cancer.

“I’m highly arrogant and excited to person joined Southampton -– determination is immense imaginable present and we person a large accidental to bash thing special," said Still.

“The task that has been laid retired to maine is precise awesome and, each together, I judge we tin physique a wide individuality and a precise affirmative aboriginal for the team."

Still launched his managerial vocation successful Belgium astatine Lierse and Beerschot successful his autochthonal Belgium earlier 2 seasons astatine Reims –- wherever helium became the youngest manager successful Europe’s apical 5 leagues –- brought him to the attraction of Lens.

A dire play for the Saints led to the departure of 2 managers successful Russell Martin and Ivan Juric.

Still volition present effort to oversee Southampton’s contiguous instrumentality to the apical flight, with the club’s method manager Johannes Spors saying: “Will is simply a young, innovative manager who has already gained important acquisition passim his career, and we person been highly impressed some by his way grounds and our conversations with him.

“What was precise evident successful our discussions was the clarity of his doctrine and the individuality helium wants his teams to have.

“But besides his willingness and quality to accommodate to antithetic situations arsenic they contiguous themselves, which volition beryllium an important prime successful the Championship adjacent season."

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