Saturday, March 8, 2008

Finishing the season with Southampton

Unfortunately the finish of the season was not successful as I had expected. My Southampton took only 12th place and I got again under fire of fans and board. But that was a great luck not being sacked this time! Board decided to give me one more chance with the club.



Poor 12th place (8 points away from promotion playoff zone) was caused by two factors:

  • Weak players, especially forwards
  • Ineffective tactical approach with standard 4-4-2 scheme

Therefore we get the following results in the last matches of the season:


I decided to forgot these experience with standard 4-4-2 and try to create totally new attacking tactics with 3 forwards. Another my task for the new season is creating of the team buying a lot of new players and selling many old ones. So its human resources revolution is coming to Southampton! :)


And, for sure, I could not set season expectations lower than promotion to Premier League. Any other result will be considered as total failure!

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