Will Still’s Southampton Challenge: Could This Be the Moment He Silences All Doubters?
Southampton fans had to endure one of the most wretched top-flight seasons in recent memory last year.
Saints’ prize for beating Leeds United in the play-off final at Wembley in May 2024 was a gruelling Premier League campaign that brought about just two wins, a total of 12 points and three managers in the dugout.
After the earliest relegation in Premier League history, the club knew an almighty reset was in order ahead of their return to the Championship and that’s exactly what they’ve done.
Opportunity knocks for Will Still
This reset involved hiring 32-year-old Will Still as the club’s new manager, as Southampton moved to give one of Europe’s most-talked-about young coaches – who was ranked at no.46 in FourFourTwo’s list of the best managers in the world earlier this summer – his first opportunity in English football.
Still’s coaching career began in Belgium, with a short caretaker stint in charge of Lierse in 2017, before taking over at Beerschot. He then moved to France and settled into roles at Reims and then Lens, before taking the opportunity to return to home soil earlier this summer.
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