Bill worked for Saints across two spells, most recently for the past six years, having a hugely successful influence.
During that time, he fulfilled the role of Senior Recruitment Officer, which is commonly referred to across football circles as chief scout, playing a hugely significant part in Southampton’s scouting and recruitment activity.
Bill was enormously respected not only at Saints, but across the entire football community, where he is a legendary figure in scouting for the exceptional quality of his work, his values, standards and also his warm personality.
Southampton Football Club extends its sincerest condolences to all of Bill’s friends and family at this time.
Goals either side of half time from Daniel Armstrong and Donovan Wilson gave the hosts a firm lead before Sherwin Seedorf’s late strike completed the 3-0 score line.
And Jaïdi pulled no punches when giving his post-match verdict.
“It was not good enough,” he started.
“I think in the first half at least we created opportunities in the wide areas, but we were never good enough in the midfield areas where we should have been
“We told the boys about playing more with the quality and behind and in between Wolves, but in the second half we were poor. We got sucked into their game.”
Armstrong’s opener with the final kick of the first half provided the hosts with a platform to take control of the second.
And Jaïdi was disappointed with the way in which his side lost their way after the break.
“We need to be stronger in the one vs ones,” he continued.
“Then once we have worked hard to get the ball back, we need to try to impose our game on sides and play football.
“We are a team that plays football and will always be a team that plays football, but I think tonight we were not good enough.”
Saints are set to take their summer spending close to the £40m mark as they prepare to complete the signing of Wesley Hoedt.
The 23-year-old Lazio centre half is expected to undergo a medical at Saints after a fee of around £15m was agreed with the Italian club.
Lazio dragged their heels over the weekend meaning his arrival has been slightly delayed, but that is a not a major issue for Saints who are hoping to get this deal over the line.
Hoedt will be the third summer arrival at St Mary’s following in the footsteps of £5m Jan Bednarek and Mario Lemina, who cost around £18m.
Hoedt’s signing leaves Saints with a possible surplus of central defenders, but most importantly covers them for whatever transpires with Virgil van Dijk.
Should a club get desperate and submit an astronomical bid for the 26-year-old, there remains a chance he could be sold.
But in the far more likely event that that does not occur, he will still be a Saints player when the transfer window closes at midnight a week on Thursday.
Nobody is quite sure how van Dijk will react in that circumstance.
Having made it quite clear he wants to leave via a formal transfer request, he could just accept his fate and come back into the first team fold.
If he does that Saints would have a surplus of centre halves with van Dijk joining Hoedt, Maya Yoshida, Jack Stephens, Bednarek and Florin Gardos in the ranks.
However, Saints would look a little light if he cannot get his around his situation and continues to cause a level of problems that leaves Mauricio Pellegrino opting not to select him.
Added to that van Dijk has not played since January and, having not featured in pre-season due to the issues surrounding his future, will take some time to be fit and available again anyway.
ORIOL Romeu has given some insight in to Mauricio Pellegrino’s attacking ambitions for his Saints team.
In Pellegrino’s first two games in charge, it has been obvious that Saints are willing to be far more expansive than they were under Claude Puel.
The Argentine is keen for Saints to press and it’s something that the team are starting to adapt to.
“We need to try to play with higher tempo,” Romeu said. “We tend to play too slow and then there’s no space between the lines to break the opponents.
“That’s what we’re trying to do now and we’re trying to regain the ball high up.
“We try and push as soon as we lose the ball and win the ball back high up the pitch and then try and close the opponents in their own half.
“We know it’s difficult, almost all teams are try to do the same.
“Here in this league the counter attacking can be very dangerous, but we’re getting there.”
Romeu believes that Pellegrino’s Saints will keep pushing until the very last moment in every single game.
“Every game brings different situations and today we have adapted,” he said, referring to the 3-2 win over West Ham on Saturday.
“First of all, we put ourselves 2-0 up, but didn’t deal well enough with the situation.
“After conceding, we adapted, kept pushing and playing forward and eventually we scored.
“Sometimes you score in the last minute, sometimes you don’t, but the team at least pushed until the end.
“And as I said we’re not prepared to go 0-0 or 1-1, hopefully we will win every game 4-0 or 5-0 but that’s not what we’re doing so we always need to keep pushing until the last minute.”
The West Ham game ended a club-record six games without a home goal.
And, ahead of tomorrow night’s League Cup third round game against Championship side Wolves, Romeu wants more strikes.
“We wanted to score goals and be strong in our stadium,” he said. “We have to score goals to win games, so it was good to score three goals.
“It wasn’t good to concede but I’m relieved we’ve scored and now we need to keep going making those chances.”
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