{"id":12953,"date":"2017-05-11T21:12:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T21:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/2017\/05\/11\/southampton-monitor-portuguese-duo-as-replacements-for-under-fire-claude-puel\/"},"modified":"2017-05-11T21:12:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T21:12:08","slug":"southampton-monitor-portuguese-duo-as-replacements-for-under-fire-claude-puel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/?p=12953","title":{"rendered":"Southampton Monitor Portuguese Duo as Replacements for Under Fire Claude Puel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"74.7120418848\">\n<p>Claude Puel&#8217;s\u00a0Southampton were beaten by a resurgent Arsenal 2-0 on Wednesday night, extending their winless run which dates back\u00a0to April 8, when the Saints recorded a 1-0 win against West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns.<\/p>\n<p>The&#8217; recent worrying lapse in form has warranted the club, according to a report provided by\u00a0Independent, to pinpoint two potential replacements to take the helm next season and dismiss Puel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-container imageEmbedded\" contenteditable=\"false\" data-url=\"http:\/\/90min-images-original.s3.amazonaws.com\/production\/5914a77fe69d9789bc000001.jpg\" data-large_url=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/photos\/hull-citys-portuguese-head-coach-marco-silva-gestures-on-the-during-picture-id679666874?b=1&#038;k=6&#038;m=679666874&#038;s=612x612&#038;w=0&#038;h=PRy7s8MpEqVw_MiUiq0B5RckKZHx9Zs1C1Z3gBCfNRk=\" data-title=\"FBL-ENG-PR-HULL-SUNDERLAND\" data-description=\"Hull City's Portuguese head coach Marco Silva gestures on the touchline during the English Premier League football match between Hull City and Sunderland at the KCOM Stadium in Kingston upon Hull, north east England on May 6, 2017.\nSunderland won the game 2-0. \/ AFP PHOTO \/ Lindsey PARNABY \/ RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. 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No use in betting, games or single club\/league\/player publications.  \/         (Photo credit should read LINDSEY PARNABY\/AFP\/Getty Images)\" data-credit=\"LINDSEY PARNABY\/GettyImages\" data-date=\"2017-05-06\" data-ratio=\"16\/9\" data-crop=\"\"x\":0,\"y\":0.03142857142857143,\"w\":1,\"h\":0.84375\" data-getty_image=\"true\" data-licensor=\"GettyImages\" data-is-animated=\"false\" data-width=\"undefined\" data-height=\"undefined\"><i class=\"wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.minutemediacdn.com\/process?url=http%3A%2F%2F90min-images-original.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fproduction%2F5914a77fe69d9789bc000001.jpg&#038;filters%5Bcrop%5D%5Bw%5D=1.0&#038;filters%5Bcrop%5D%5Bh%5D=0.84375&#038;filters%5Bcrop%5D%5Bo_x%5D=0.0&#038;filters%5Bcrop%5D%5Bo_y%5D=0.03142857142857143&#038;filters%5Bquality%5D%5Btarget%5D=80&#038;type=.jpg&#038;filters%5Bresize%5D%5Bw%5D=578&#038;filters%5Bresize%5D%5Bh%5D=325\" alt=\"FBL-ENG-PR-HULL-SUNDERLAND\" title=\"LINDSEY PARNABY\/GettyImages\" data-licensor=\"GettyImages\"\/><\/i><\/div>\n<p>Hull City&#8217;s Marco Silva and Sheffield Wednesday&#8217;s Carlos Carvalhal are apparently the names in the frame to replace Puel, who has come under scrutiny as of late, due to his squad&#8217;s domestic stutter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\">The Frenchman&#8217;s position at Southampton will be reviewed at the end of the 2016\/17 campaign, and the club hierarchy\u00a0will not make a defining decision upon his future until then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\">However, the report suggest the\u00a055-year-old boss is right to fear for his job at St. Mary&#8217;s, as his current employers have already started an initial recruitment process.<\/p>\n<p><i class=\"wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yGdg0ohnvkE\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"Youtube embed--Youtube embed--generic-iframe embeded-video-player\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\">Silva has impressed during his short stint on English soil so far.\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: initial; font-size: 1em;\">Hull&#8217;s Portuguese boss is young, adaptable, hungry, and could ultimately leave the relegation battlers, if they drop to the Championship, after having a &#8216;break clause&#8217; added into the 18-month contract which he signed in January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\">Sheffield Wednesday&#8217;s Carvalhal still has ambitions to\u00a0steer his formidable Owls towards the hallowed Premier League, with his men preparing to take on Huddersfield Town in the Championship play-offs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-label=\"Drop here...\">He is also a Portuguese national, and will allegedly refuse to indulge in any contractual offer from Wednesday at the moment, preferring\u00a0to decide upon his future when the play-offs are finished\u00a0&#8211; promoted or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i class=\"wrapper\" contenteditable=\"false\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claude Puel&#8217;s\u00a0Southampton were beaten by a resurgent Arsenal 2-0 on Wednesday night, extending their winless run which dates back\u00a0to April 8, when the Saints recorded a 1-0 win against West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns. The&#8217; recent worrying lapse in form has warranted the club, according to a report provided by\u00a0Independent, to pinpoint two potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-southampton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}