da roleta： The Athletic’s Carl Anka has fired a warning to Southampton’s board over Ralph Hasenhuttl’s future.
da poker： The former RB Leipzig boss has a contract with the Saints until the summer of 2021, and revealed himself that discussions regarding his or his players’ deals would not commence until the club reach 36 points – they are currently on 31.
Hasenhuttl has shown what he has in his managerial locker this season by steering Southampton’s season around, which looked bleak back in October following a 9-0 defeat to Leicester.
What did he say?
When asked in a Q&A session on Friday afternoon if he thinks bigger clubs will try and poach Hasenhuttl, Anka wrote: “I’ve said before, but I think Ralph is happy here. He’s got a great degree of autonomy, and if you look at the team’s he’s managed in the past he prefers family sedans to supercars.
“He DOES have a history of walking if the club fails in its promises to him however. So stay woke.”
RB Leipzig found this out the hard way
While it was not specifically documented that RB Leipzig had failed in their promises to Hasenhuttl, the 52-year-old did walk out on the Bundesliga side despite Sporting Director Ralf Rangnick wanting to keep hold of his first-team coach.
This is merely to provide some substantiation to what Anka claimed about Hasenhuttl having a ‘history’ of walking out on clubs, and it remains to be seen if Southampton are misleading the Austrian in any way, shape or form.
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If he keeps up his form, though – the Saints have won five and drawn one of their last eight Premier League games – then we presume that big clubs will be sitting up and taking notice of his accomplishments.
Hopefully, he can guide Southampton to five more points in the Premier League as quickly as possible, in order to shed more light on contract discussions when the club reach that magical 36-point mark.
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