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When complaining about their small budget for the past few years has anyone considered that Southampton have decided that they’d rather be a good stable Championship team, rather than busting their budget and going into freefall like so many other teams that have been in the Premier League in recent times? How many of those have gone on a freefall through the divisions? Spending big brings in big players yes, but it also brings huge wages and longer contracts which hasn’t stopped other teams getting instantly relegated and stuck with players on huge salaries. And no, it doesn’t guarantee they instantly bounce back up. Of course everyone wants to be a mid-top table Premier League team but it just isn’t sustainable for 99% of clubs.

Jay

Last time Southampton were relegated they sold off £100,000,000 worth of players. They still got promoted. There is such a vast gulf between teams like Plymouth and the Premier Yo-yos

Anon

If you are just joining us we have been discussing Ivan Juric's exit as Southampton manager, which was confirmed by the club earlier today.

Your key catch-up points:

• Southampton issued a statement to say that Juric has left the club following the team's relegation from the Premier League

• Simon Rusk is set to replace Juric in the interim at St Mary's with Adam Lallana acting as his assistant
• The parting with the Croatian comes after Saints' relegation following their 3-1 defeat to Tottenham on Sunday.
• Southampton's return to the Championship is the earliest in history with seven games of the season still remaining.
• Juric's time in charge saw him pick up only one win in 14 league games.

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Managing Southampton is a thankless task. They’ve had a net spend average of £30m per season, across the last three seasons. You can’t do the Premier League on the cheap. It was a weaker squad than the one previously relegated, so relegation was inevitable. Unprofessional effort for a really demanding challenge.

SG, Oxfordshire

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It's interesting reading back the views of Southampton fans at Wembley after their team won promotion by beating Leeds United in the Championship play-off final 11 months ago.

"It's absolutely brilliant we're up but I'm filled with trepidation as well," Roger Lacey, who has supported the Saints for 50 years, told BBC Sport.

"I feel we will beat some teams but I also think we'll be ripped apart by others."

Saints fan Ed Robinson, who was at Wembley with his brother Ben, added: "We are in a much better place as a club than we were two years ago."

Read: 'Bring it on!' - fans react to Southampton's promotion.

What would Southampton fans prefer? Mid-table obscurity in the Premier League? That’s boring. The rollercoaster of it all is what makes the game so good. Highs and lows and all that.

Roxy (boring Brentford fan)

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"Do Southampton bring in a Championship manager to bring them back up again?" asks former Newcastle United goalkeeper Shay Given on MOTD 2.

"They need a better plan when they are in the Premier League."

Our recruitment has been dire for many seasons now. The only player we’ve signed with Premier League experience who isn’t well past their best is Ramsdale and that’s it. This is a problem going back to Hasenhuttl's days.

Jon lifelong fan

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It’s already difficult enough to stay in the Premier League as a newly promoted club. Before this season, 50% of all clubs promoted to the Premier League over the last decade have gone straight back down.

Yet under Russell Martin, Southampton – along with champions Leicester last season – were part of just 37% of clubs relegated from the Premier League to bounce straight back, in the same 10-year period.

And they really should have known better…

Last time they were relegated from the Premier League - 2022-23 - was also the last time a Premier League club had three permanent managers in one season.

Both Southampton and Leeds tried it… and both went down.

Saints replaced Ralph Hasenhuttl (0.86 points per game) with Nathan Jones (0.38 PPG) who lasted just eight matches, then replaced him with Ruben Selles (0.63 PPG).

And relegated alongside them were three-manager Leeds – with Jesse Marsch (0.9 PPG), followed by Javier Gracia (1.0 PPG), then replaced by Sam Allardyce (0.25 PPG).

Ivan Juric was clearly out of his depth taking over a Premier League team under threat of relegation, and was obviously a knee-jerk appointment once the Saints board panicked and sacked Russell Martin in December. With the squad available, it's unlikely anyone could have kept them up, frankly. Sometimes, a managerial change can spark a revival, but this was merely a case of trying to get better results from a squad that wasn't Premier League standard in the first place. Kieran McKenna will likely get relegated with Ipswich, but at least he has tried to play decent football and has enhanced his managerial reputation. Southampton, by comparison, have been abysmal, and the club hierarchy need to look at themselves when surveying the dreadful season they've overseen.

Jon

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Southampton, who have 10 points with seven matches of the season left, are trying to avoid being the worst team in Premier League history by bettering Derby's current record-low total of 11 points from 2007-08.

After Southampton's relegation was confirmed on Sunday, Ivan Juric said: "The goal has to be that, to avoid being the worst team in Premier League history.

"I am manager of Southampton and it is easy to say, 'now I want to go' - we have to keep working. We owe that to our fans and this is our goal.

"It is really good to be a coach in the Premier League and if I took the long way to come back here, I am ready."

Lauren at 13:13 is missing the point that Southampton fans would never have accepted a "David Moyes" appointment. Every fan wants attacking football and the fans would not have accepted Russell staying either.

Frank, London

On reflection, maybe another season under Russell Martin in the Championship with promotion this season meant he would have built a strong and more sustainable squad who were capable of staying in the Premiership long-term.

Chris

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Southampton are Everton's opponents on what is likely to be a highly-emotional day at Goodison Park on 18 May.

That's the day the Toffees say goodbye to their home since 1892 for the last time before moving to a brand new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock.

• Sat, 12 April - Aston Villa (home, 15:00)
• Sat, 19 April - West Ham (away, 15:00)
• Sat, 26 April - Fulham (home, 15:00)
• Sat, 3 May - Leicester (away, 15:00)
• Sat, 10 May - Man City (home, 15:00)
• Sun, 18 May - Everton (away, 15:00)
• Sun, 25 May - Arsenal (home, 16:00)

Southampton should have either sacked Russell after the Leicester game and gone for a David Moyes type manager, or stuck with him until the end of the season. They did neither. Poor decision after poor decision from the owners. Ivan Juric will go down as, in my opinion, the poorest manager in Premier League history. Now Southampton are back to square one looking for another Russell Martin to get them back out of the Championship. A royal mess all round.

Lauren

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Southampton picked up just four points in Ivan Juric's 14 Premier League games in charge (W1 D1 L12), giving the Croatian the lowest points-per-game average of any manager to take charge of 10+ games in the competition (0.29).

As a lifelong Saints FC fan, I actually think we played rather well this season and didn't deserve to be relegated. Paul Onuachu is an elite striker who isn't being utilised in an effective way by successive managers.

Sam, London

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Re Anon at 11:51: I totally agree. The manager shouldn't be the one sacked. The players are the ones who either perform or not and they should be the ones held accountable. They should be dropped for the younger players if they don't perform, or sold. Players have to start being punished for underperforming!

Steve, Fife