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Rob Smyth

Southampton find a ‘super-talented’ reason to stick with Tonda Eckert

Tonda Eckert Southampton Dragan Solak Football Andoni Iraola Football Daily GWC World Cup Arsenal Davide Ancelotti
Southampton manager Tonda Eckert looks directly at the camera with a serious expression
‘We meet again, Mr Bond.’ Photograph: Catherine Ivill/AMA/Getty Images

TOMORROW NEVER SPIES

Southampton don’t have an official club motto. But at the start of next season, as they try to leave behind the spying scandal that devastated their 2025-26 campaign, they could borrow a phrase from the poetry of Alexander Pope: to err is human; to forgive, divine. The club’s owner Dragan Solak has confirmed that their German head coach, Tonda Eckert, will not be sacked for his part in the fiasco that led to Southampton being kicked out of the playoff final. “I think he deserves a second chance and I would give it to him,” soothed Solak. “My full support would be behind him actually, because I think he’s a super-talented manager.”

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