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Southampton manager Claude Puel hoping to replicate European success
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Southampton manager Claude Puel has called on his side to build on their Europa League win over Sparta Prague.
A brace from Charlie Austin helped the Saints open their European campaign with a 3-0 victory over the Czech side on Thursday.
However in the Premier League, Southampton are one of three teams yet to secure a win this season, but Puel is determined to see that change when they host Swansea on Saturday.
“Now it is the Premier League we have to do the good work and win games,” he told the club’s official website.
“There has been a lot of disappointment and frustration after every game because I think we played good football with many chances, but at the end it was a loss or a draw. This is not interesting for the squad, they deserve to be rewarded.”
Against Sparta Prague, the French manager made seven changes to the team which were beaten 2-1 at Arsenal last weekend, with Austin only earning his second start of the season.
And Puel believes being able to operate a strong rotation policy, while the club challenge on two fronts, could be key to success.
“It was important to show Southampton have good young players, and the interesting possibility to make changes game after game,” added Puel.
"This is important for the future with the many games we have to play. It is important to see the quality of the squad.
"All of the players are important in the squad. If we understand this and accept this, it is a winning formula for the squad, because it is not possible to play all of the games with 10 or 11 players.
“We can see yesterday the quality of the squad, it is not a problem for me with selection to change the team if the players keep this good spirit and attitude.”
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Manager Claude Puel wants his Southampton side to build on their Europa League win over Sparta Prague.
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The new Southampton boss, Claude Puel, will be delighted with his side’s performance in their comfortable 3-0 victory over Sparta Prague in the Europa League. Puel will now look to try and secure his first Premier League win with the Saints.
Swansea would have been happy with the final score when they played Chelsea last Sunday. The Swans managed a 2-2 draw against the Blues and showed their quality to come from one goal down to earn a point.
Fernando Llorente. Swansea’s summer signing from Sevilla has played all four games for the Swans this season but is yet to score or assist any of his team’s goals.
The biggest defeat between these two teams was when Swansea beat Southampton 6-0 in 1964 when both teams were playing in the old second division .
Ricky Lambert scored this last minute winner against Swansea at the Liberty Stadium back in 2014.
Charlie Austin. The ex-QPR striker has not played much football but scored twice on his Europa League debut for the Saints, as they beat Sparta Prague 3-0.
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Claude Puel plans to use all players in Southampton squad rotations
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Claude Puel maintains he will need to call on every one of his Southampton squad if they are to do well in both Europe and the Premier League this season.
Striker Charlie Austin scored twice as the Saints opened their Europa League campaign with a 3-0 victory over Sparta Prague on Thursday night.
It was only Austin’s second start of the season, in one of seven changes made by Puel to the team which were beaten 2-1 at Arsenal last weekend.
However, the French coach believes having such options throughout the squad can only serve them well in the challenges ahead, which continue when Swansea come to St Mary’s Stadium on Sunday, with Saints still searching for a first Premier League win.
“This game was important for the result and also the confidence,” said Puel a news conference on Friday afternoon. "It was important to show Southampton have good young players, and the interesting possibility to make changes in game after game.
"This is important for the future with the many games we have to play. It is important to see the quality of the squad.
"All of the players are important in the squad. If we understand this and accept this, it is [a] winning [formula] for the squad, because it is not possible to play all of the games with 10 or 11 players.
“We can see yesterday the quality of the squad, it is not a problem for me with selection to change the team if the players keep this good spirit and attitude.”
While Puel was impressed with the efforts of Austin, who won the penalty from which he gave them the lead and also had a header ruled out for offside, the Saints boss indicated he could mix things up again on Sunday.
“It is natural because Charlie played all the game, and it is important now for recovery and to have a different solution on the bench,” he said. “All of the players are ready to play, it is interesting.”
Midfielder James Ward-Prowse played the full 90 minutes on Thursday night, having been a late substitute against Arsenal.
He said on the club’s official website: “We know there is going to be rotation in the squad to deal with the amount of games we have. We are all professional players ready to do the job.”
With a first win of his tenure secured, Puel is now focused on delivering three points against Swansea.
“Now it is the Premier League we have to do the good work and win games,” he said. “There has been a lot of disappointment and frustration after every game because I think we played good football with many chances, but at the end it was a loss or a draw. This is not interesting for the squad, they deserve to be rewarded.”
Puel confirmed forward Jay Rodriguez, who came on as a late substitute against Sparta and scored in the final minute, will be assessed.
The Saints boss said: “There are no injuries – it is Jay Rodriguez, he felt something and we will see tomorrow, but there is no problem for the moment.”
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Matt Le Tissier: Snubbing Hoddle cost me a World Cup spot
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Matt Le Tissie has gone from football legend to football agent. And if there is one piece of advice he’d give to his younger self it would be: ‘Take that phone call from Glenn Hoddle!’
Le Tissier, who has launched football agency 73 Management, could have left Southampton on a number of occasions. The closest he came was at 21 when he agreed personal terms with Tottenham, only to change his mind.
By the time Sir Alex Ferguson made enquiries about bringing Le Tissier to Manchester United later in his career, the Scot was told not to bother.
The only time Le Tissier might have done anything differently is when Hoddle — then Chelsea manager and Le Tissier’s idol — was on the other end of the phone in 1995.
‘I said there’s no point, I’ve made up my mind,’ Le Tissier says. ‘So I didn’t speak to him. Then he became England manager and left me out of the 1998 World Cup squad! Not one of my best career decisions.
‘Probably what I would advise in that situation is just have a chat. Alan Ball was my manager at Southampton, I was happy as Larry. I just didn’t feel like I wanted to go anywhere. I’d scored 55 goals in the two previous seasons.
‘It might have made a difference, might have meant we got off on a better footing when he called me up to the international stage. He became Southampton manager after the England job as well. Again, we were a bit fraught in our relationship.’
Now the man who famously never moved clubs has set up an agency alongside best friend and former team-mate Francis Benali to help players make the right moves. ‘It’s quite funny, isn’t it? I did think that,’ he says, laughing.
When we meet at Stonemouth Golf Club, he arrives as Agent Le Tissier in a navy suit, smart black shoes and open-collared white shirt. Later, he is more relaxed in golf attire — pink polo shirt, cream shorts, trainers.
Le Tissier, 47, anticipates spending less time on the golf course (he has a handicap of four and likes to play three times a week) and more time establishing a stable of ‘10 to 12’ players after an idea his wife, Angela, planted a year ago came to fruition.
Their niche — aside from the 800-plus top-flight games Le Tissier and Benali boast between them — is that Le Tissier will analyse potential clients mentally.
‘It’s not just whether they can play, but what’s going on in their head,’ Le Tissier says. ‘Do they have the right mentality to succeed at the top level?
‘Do they have the confidence in their own ability? Do they have the right attitude to the game? What are their ambitions? All the things that go on in a sportsman’s head. It’s a big part of professional sport that is underestimated sometimes.
‘We’ll analyse with them what’s going on in their head before the game, during the game, after the game. All that will give you a bigger picture of what they’re like. I didn’t experience that in my career and I don’t know many players who did.’
Le Tissier suffered mentally in his career. When he was 22, Southampton manager Ian Branfoot did not want to play him, and Graeme Souness later dropped him. He would spend extra time on the training ground with his former youth coach Dave Merrington.
He can also offer advice to others on breaking into the first team as a teenager. And it was tougher in his day than it is now.
‘It was a big step to go from being that star man in the youth team to the first-team changing room with Joe Jordan, David Armstrong, Peter Shilton, Mark Dennis, Mark Wright,’ he says. ‘They almost deliberately made it difficult for you to test your character. It was very different to the way things are done now.
‘Let’s hammer them and see how they handle it; that’s how it was at half-time. The manager never used to speak for the first six or seven minutes — back when we only had 10 minutes — it was all the players, digging each other out, then the manager would talk.’ Older players also let this skinny teenager know, in their own special way, when they were not enamoured with his attitude in training.
In one session, they were playing 10 versus six on the pitch at The Dell to practise keeping their shape. Le Tissier, in the attacking side, was enjoying the space and time on the ball, showing off a little, while Glenn Cockerill and Jimmy Case were the defensive midfielders haring around.
‘I was thinking, “This is a nice, easy session, I’ll just spray it about a bit”. Jimmy got to the point where he thought I was spending a bit too much time on the ball and trying to give it the big ’un.
‘I passed one ball out wide and I can remember about three seconds later getting an almighty whack down the back of my calf. He smashed me from behind. I was only 17. I was like, “F_*_ that hurt!” Jimmy just stared at me and went: “Do. It. Properly”.’
Much else has changed since those days, too. Le Tissier earned £26 a week from his first youth contract, aged 16, which rose to £35 in the second year. He earned more working for his dad delivering plants around Guernsey in the couple of weeks he had between finishing school and starting the Youth Training Scheme, as it was called in the 1980s.
A bus pass was included, although players were given £32 a month and had to go to the depot each month to buy it. The No 2 bus from Lord’s Hill, where he lived with a family, to The Dell took 25 minutes.
From his first pay packet he bought an horrific pair of white trousers from Top Man, with tight elasticated ankles but baggy around the thighs. ‘I thought they looked good on the hanger, they didn’t when I put them on,’ he says.
And he negotiated his first contract. 'I didn’t get an agent until I was 20. I can remember going in for my first contract with Chris Nicholl at Southampton. He put a piece of paper in front of me and went, ‘Here’s a two-year contract, you’re going to be on £100 a week the first year and £120 the second. There you go’.
‘So I signed it. I didn’t really feel comfortable as a young lad — 18 at the time — to negotiate.’
He remembers the buzz around the training ground in 1992 when Alan Shearer left for Blackburn Rovers in a British transfer record of £3.6million. ‘It was mind-blowing money in those days,’ he says. ‘You couldn’t even fathom how much that was. These days that gets you a League One player.’
By the time Le Tissier is a conduit in his agency’s first transfer, players may be going for more than £100m.
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Southampton accused of failing to comply with minimum wage laws
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Southampton have been accused of failing to comply with minimum wage legislation.
The Premier League club have been reported to the tax office (HMRC) and Southampton City Council by Andrew Pope, an independent councillor in the south coast city.
Cllr Pope’s complaint relates to an advert on the club’s own website in July this year for a job in the ticket office at a rate of £6.50 per hour which was the minimum wage rate in 2014. This year it is £7.20.
Southampton refute the allegations and say they expect to comply with a minimum wage audit recently undertaken at the club.
The club told Sportsmail this particular job was a casual position advertised at ‘£6.50 or above depending on the national minimum wage’ because the job may have appealed to young people and the national minimum wage for those under the age of 21 is set at £5.30.
‘With the eye-watering amounts paid to players, bolstered by the recent massive TV deal, football clubs should be paying the real living wage to all staff,’ said councillor Pope, who is a fierce campaigner on minimum wage issues.
'That would demonstrate that they care about local people and local communities. But they aren’t.
'To add to Blackpool and Brighton being named and shamed by HMRC, we have evidence to suggest clubs are not even paying the legal minimum wage, let alone the real living wage.
‘So we have asked HMRC to investigate Southampton FC with evidence we have provided, and we will be doing the same for other football clubs that appear to be flouting the law.’
Although the Government set the minimum wage at £7.20 for overs 25s, the figure recommended by the Living Wage Foundation is actually an hourly rate of £9.40 in London and £8.25 elsewhere.
The Premier League pledged in March last year that all its clubs would pay the rate defined by the Living Wage Foundation to all their full-time staff from the start of this season, when the new £8billion broadcasting right deal came into force.
The job at Southampton was a casual role and so not obliged to be covered by this pledge.
Chelsea became the first Premier League club to meet the standards required for Living Wage Foundation accreditation in 2014.
Last month, Blackpool and Brighton were named by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy for a failure to comply with minimum wage legislation based on information from HMRC.
Both Blackpool and Brighton claimed the discrepancies were in relation to only one employee. HMRC will not discuss individual cases.
HM Revenue & Customs said in a statement: ‘HMRC follows up every complaint of minimum wage abuse. All businesses — irrespective of their size or sector — are responsible for paying the correct minimum wage to staff.’
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Claude Puel insists he won’t be afraid to make the changes he thinks are right for Saints, even if it means resting two-goal hero Charlie Austin for tomorrow’s game against Swansea.
The Saints boss maintains that the only way the club will have a successful season when they have to play three times a week is if he rotates his squad.
Puel made seven changes for the Europa League tie against Sparta Prague and came away with a 3-0 win.
He is now likely to reverse most of those moves for tomorrow’s game at St Mary’s, which will likely include leaving out Austin.
Puel concedes the decisions might not always be popular, but says he will stand by what he believes is best for the team.
He said: “I think it’s important to keep the good way and what you want to do for the future.
“It was a risk perhaps at the beginning because you stayed four games without a win but it’s important to keep calm at the start of the season.
“The season is very long with many chances to play, many possibilities, many games. It was important to stay calm with good analyse and to improve together.
“My job is not just to play ten or 11 players but to improve with all these players and to give chances to show their qualities.
“It’s important for the development of the club and for the future.
“I think we stay with a good spirit, a good attitude and we continue in a good way.”
Of the strikers, Puel added: “I think it’s not too hard because Charlie for example play all the game, or 80 minutes, and it’s important now for recovery and to have a different solution in the match.
“All the players want to play and it’s interesting.
“It’s interesting of course Charlie score, Rodriguez, and Redmond now and the work of Shane for example he can do a very good game and give a good assist for Rodriguez. It will be important for him to score, but it’s not just the in front player of my team that must score.
“I think all the players of the team have to score this year, every time at the end of the season for example 15 or 16 players score on the season. This is important because it’s a collective and all the players attack and all the players defend.”
Whether Austin starts against Swansea could also depend on the fitness of Jay Rodriguez, who picked up a slight injury in his goalscoring cameo against Sparta which leaves him a doubt for the game.
Puel insists that he expected a high level of performance from his much changed side.
“I am not surprised. I am sure they can do good games and I am not afraid when I decide to do this change. No,” he reflected.
“Around the team perhaps, for fans, or for press, perhaps, but if we want a good chance to play all these games with a good level and a good result it’s important to make this.
“It was a risk perhaps at the beginning at the start of the game, but at the final we win something with a feeling, a relationship and a good acquaintance between the players and this is the most important.”
He continued: “I explain at the start to my players that it was important to present it and to give the way and to have a chance here with good results and to keep good energy to play many games.
“It was important to speak and to discuss with my players and they accept these possibilities to change the team every time.
“I don’t know the number of course, but I think it was very important to show all the squad we have good players, good younger players, and for the future I think it’s very important.
“All the players can encourage their partners and this is very interesting for the dynamic of the group.”
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Premier League legend: Turning down Chelsea cost me a World Cup call-up
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But he says his decision to snub a move away from the south coast club cost him a place in England’s 1998 World Cup squad.
The 47-year-old made more than 400 league appearances for the Saints, bagging 161 goals.
And he was the subject of transfer interest throughout his career, catching the eye of but rejecting fellow Premier League outfits Manchester United and Tottenham.
However, he says turning down Glenn Hoddle when he was Chelsea boss may be partly to blame for him only ever picking up eight international caps.
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