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{"id":251159,"date":"2021-03-31T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T09:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prostinternational.com\/?p=251159"},"modified":"2021-06-14T13:35:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T12:35:31","slug":"the-story-of-southamptons-journey-back-to-the-premier-league-told-by-those-who-made-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prostinternational.com\/2021\/03\/31\/the-story-of-southamptons-journey-back-to-the-premier-league-told-by-those-who-made-it-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of Southampton’s journey back to the Premier League: told by those who made it happen"},"content":{"rendered":"This is the story of Southampton’s push back to the pinnacle. Told by those who helped made it happen.<\/h2>\n
Les Reed,\u00a0<\/strong>Southampton’s Head of Football Development<\/p>\nDean Hammond<\/strong>, Southampton’s captain and midfielder. 63 appearances across the team’s back-to-back promotion seasons.<\/p>\nJos Hooiveld,\u00a0<\/strong>Southampton defender. 39 appearances in the club’s season in the Championship, including scoring his eighth goal of the campaign against Coventry City on the final day.<\/p>\nDan Seaborne<\/strong>, Southampton defender. 28 appearances across two seasons.<\/p>\nOscar Gobern,\u00a0<\/strong>Southampton midfielder. 11 appearances during the club’s promotion season in League One.<\/p>\nRyan Dickson,<\/strong> Southampton defender. 23 appearances during the club’s promotion season in League One.<\/p>\nProst International<\/em><\/p>\nSouthampton were venturing into their second season in League One after missing out on a play-off spot by one-point months earlier. But the team would begin the new campaign on a level playing field, having had 10 points docked the year prior. This was due to the club’s parent company ‘Southampton Leisure Holdings’ being deemed financially insolvent.<\/em><\/p>\nReed:\u00a0<\/strong>The club had been stripped bare and had little to no structure and certainly no strategy. I was asked to audit the football operation and propose a plan to get back to the Premier League within five years.<\/p>\nGobern:\u00a0<\/strong>The club was on its way out. The young boys were in and clearly not ready to play in the first team but having to play week-in-week-out. Big names were leaving, and it was looking difficult.<\/p>\nHammond:\u00a0<\/strong>There was a little bit of a hangover from the squad having been broken up. It was talented but a very young squad. There were still some aftereffects of the administration and the relegations.<\/p>\nGobern:\u00a0<\/strong>For the young lads like myself and Adam Lallana, there was a few of us that all got a chance to play. But we weren\u2019t ready to play for the first team. For the club as a whole, where they had been, it was looking bleak at that point.<\/p>\nEmbed from Getty Images<\/a>