{"id":81771,"date":"2023-05-24T12:59:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T11:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=81771"},"modified":"2023-05-24T13:03:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T12:03:37","slug":"latest-swans-and-southampton-reach-martin-agreement-russ-to-be-confirmed-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2023\/05\/24\/latest-swans-and-southampton-reach-martin-agreement-russ-to-be-confirmed-today\/","title":{"rendered":"LATEST &#8211; Swans and Southampton reach Martin agreement &#8211; Russ signs a three year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deal has been reached between the Swans and Southampton that will allow the newly relegated side to confirm Russell Martin as their new manager this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Martin will sign a three year deal to lead the Saints Championship season next season following their relegation from the Premier League this time around.<\/p>\n<p>As <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2023\/05\/23\/swans-and-southampton-compensation-close-to-being-agreed\/\">reported on here yesterday<\/a><\/strong>, talks were getting closer to an agreement with a reported fee of \u00a3400k being agreed for Martin with some additional amounts for the backroom staff that he will take to St Mary&#8217;s with him which is believed to include at least Matt Gill and Dean Thornton.\u00a0 As per yesterday&#8217;s report the total is less than \u00a31m and expected to be much nearer the \u00a3700k mark.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='S0EmQEydQvFUIXQ-EMWEBg' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1252343686' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'S0EmQEydQvFUIXQ-EMWEBg',sig:'H92FSNeYEwUuTZQyfScQ27w9QGF35edzCS62q9CDJdw=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1252343686',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The announcement will bring two an end an almost two year stay in SA1 and will see the manager move for a relatively small amount &#8211; certainly well short of the amounts that were banded about earlier this season in some sections of the media.<\/p>\n<p>Saints&#8217; owners Sport Republic have recently released a statement regarding organisational changes, which included Martin Semmens leaving his role as Southampton CEO and director, while they stated that the club&#8217;s leadership team for next season would be announced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Martin is expected to show interest in some of the Swans players once the move is completed and the transfer window formally opens but the Swans are believed to be ready to hold firm on their pricing valuations of the players in question and are not prepared to let their manager tempt players away for relative peanuts.<\/p>\n<p>Several names have already been linked with as a replacement and the betting markets are expected to move significantly on this over the next couple of days as the speculation intensifies.<\/p>\n<p>But for now it seems the speculation is finally going to over and Russell Martin will be a Saint!<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='fP1mgN1oSx1bmTYheZZrSg' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1252343650' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'fP1mgN1oSx1bmTYheZZrSg',sig:'e377jekFiavCX5X_xyhxLHfBpOJD2Z_DuEbNMdzrm2U=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1252343650',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deal has been reached between the Swans and Southampton that will allow the newly relegated side to confirm Russell Martin as their new manager this afternoon. Martin will sign a three year deal to lead the Saints Championship season next season following their relegation from the Premier League this time around. As reported on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":74405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203],"tags":[636,1509],"class_list":["post-81771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","tag-russell-martin","tag-the-2023-2024-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}