20) SOUTHAMPTON: A spiritless, soulless season saw Southampton slide out of the Premier League with barely a whimper. A campaign that saw Saints deploy more managers than out-and-out strikers tells its own story, and the bizarre three-month tenure of Nathan Jones as boss encapsulated Southampton's surreal lurch from crisis to crisis. A first home-and-away league double over Chelsea since the 1980s and a thoroughly-deserved 2-0 win over a full-strength Manchester City in the League Cup -- a shock victory which could well end up depriving Pep Guardiola's mighty Manchester City of winning the quadruple -- showed what Southampton's mercurial squad was capable of. But repeated limp defeats to fellow strugglers, and an embarrassing loss to League Two Grimsby in the FA Cup, revealed what they had the stomach for. Finishing rock bottom of the Premier League with a paltry 25 points, Southampton lost 25 of their 38 matches and must hope for an instant reset to stand any chance of coming back up from the Championship at the first time of asking. Having sacked Ralph Hasenhuettl and Jones as managers during the season, and with Ruben Selles having led Saints for the last time in the final match against Liverpool, they will have a brand new manager and probably an entirely new-look side with the likes of captain James Ward-Prowse, Romeo Lavia, Armel Bella-Kotchap, Kyle Walker-Peters, Mohammed Salisu and Mislav Orsic all also expected to leave
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