Southampton boss is unfazed by relegation scrap and wants to keep manager dream alive. With seven games remaining, Southampton is safe by four points. Ruben Selles is partaking in his most memorable job as a director after taking over in February despite Holy People’s battles. A relegation battle with Southampton won’t change the fact that Ruben Selles has worked too hard to give up on his goal of becoming a manager. He says of his first senior management role as the club’s 11-year stay in the Premier League teeters on the brink.
“If it’s given me something, it’s giving me more and more support for my idea to be a manager.”
“Winning or losing, I’ve been in football long enough to know there are certain things you need [to deal with it].
“One is to keep your habits which move you through the motions and make the result a little relative. Do what you can control, analyze, and do what you need to do.”
Southampton boss is unfazed by relegation scrap!
Winless in six games, four points adrift of safety with seven to play, Selles admits:
“It has been desperate from the very first second. We are running out of time.”
But this is what he expected. “To change from assistant manager to manager, whatever league it is, the challenge will always come from a situation that is not the best.”
Opta’s prediction of Southampton playing in the Championship next season has increased to 94% following losses to relegation rivals West Ham and Crystal Palace in recent weeks. The 39-year-old Spaniard is, to a great extent, blameless for the club’s most horrendously terrible Chief Association crusade in their set of experiences. Selles had “never an inch of doubt” that he would succeed Nathan Jones in February and lead the club. His reign started promisingly, with victories over Chelsea and Leicester in two of its first three games. However, their lack of firepower is only one major factor in their demise.
