Southampton drop massive news every fan was wishing to hear | OneFootball

Southampton have officially received the green light to hire Johannes Spors as the club's new director.

Well, most of the Southampton fans would agree that the Saints haven't ticked all of their checkboxes in January. Agreed, that the on-field results weren't encouraging but the discussion is about the off-field activities.

Notably, the winter transfer market was open and Southampton knew that they needed signings, actually a lot of them. While there were a handful of incomings, the conclusion of the window still left a bad taste among the club's supporters.

Primary targets preferring other clubs, deals getting cancelled and even messy exits - the Saints endured all of these miseries during the past month. Generally, the director should be questioned after this level of mismanagement but that can't be done at Southampton.

Southampton drop massive news every fan was wishing to hear

The reason because they didn't have any until now. The Saints were close to securing the services of Johannes Spors but were ineligible to do so earlier.

Nearly three weeks went by, and it felt that Southampton may have to wait until June to resolve the situation. That being said, there's some swift progress made in this regard which would sound like music to the ears of the Southampton faithful.

Recently, Southampton's appeal has been approved to recruit Spors in the technical director's role. The Saints confirmed this decision on their official website where Spors appeared glad to eventually be a part of the management team.

Sharing his euphoria, Spors said: "I'm excited to finally start work at Southampton. Saints are a club with a great history and commitment to developing players, not only in the Academy, but also at First Team level."

Spors' words echoes what every Southampton fan wanted in this situation. A detailed focus on the senior team while effectively managing the youth teams and promising players.

Now, let's see what kind of changes are made as the Saints enter a new era under Spors' leadership.