Former Premier League striker Chris Sutton says Southampton’s season “has been a mess” and he now worries about how they will shape-up in the Championship again next season.
The jubilant scenes at Wembley last May now feel like an age ago with the aim now being to just simply pick up as many points as possible to avoid being the worst Premier League team in history.
“I’ve got sympathy for Southampton because we’ve the seen the newly promoted sides really struggle,” said Sutton on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Monday Night Club. “But it has been embarrassing for them.
“They’re in a position now where the aim is to just get past Derby’s record. That is the lowest of low bars for Southampton’s players.
“This season they started with all the optimism and they believed in Russell Martin and they were going to stick with that plan through thick and thin. When things started to go wrong they panicked and they sacked Martin and moved for Ivan Juric.
“I thought it was an impossible job – they went from one style to another and it has been a mess. The cautionary part of all this is that you look what’s happened at Luton, they are bang in trouble in the Championship – that would be my fear for Southampton.”
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