Why did Bournemouth and Southampton both bring new managers who were completely inexperienced in managing at this level of the game with the stakes so high?
For the three south coast clubs of the Premier League, it was a weekend much like so many others this season; Brighton won while Bournemouth and Southampton lost. The contrast seems pretty stark.
Bournemouth have had a season of extreme disruption with a return to the Premier League and a change of ownership. The decision to relieve Scott Parker of his duties after just four games was probably justified, but it feels as though the club was sucked into making the wrong decision in replacing him with Gary O’Neil.
Parker was relieved of his duties on August 30, but O’Neil’s job was not made permanent until the end of November. He’d started impressively as caretaker, with a six-game unbeaten run momentarily lifting them to mid-table, but the slide had already begun, masked by two handsome wins against an Everton team engulfed in an even greater slump.
But this has not been a conspicuous success either. Southampton won one and lost six of Jones’ seven Premier League games in charge of the club , while his bizarre press conference following a fairly shambolic performance at Brentford suggested that either he is not coping with the pressures of this job particularly well or is in some sort of state of denial over how badly things are going for him. Or possibly both. Saturday’s outburst wasAnd even his silver linings come with hefty asterisks.
Of course, those who made that decision are no longer there to answer that question, with the club sold in December. How far new owner Bill Foley’s patience will stretch is unknown, but he will already be aware that the value of his investment will drop considerably should results not start to pick up. At the time of writing, Gary O’Neil has a 20% win percentage in his entire managerial career. That needs to improve.
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