Southampton Prepared To Fire Mark Hughes

Southampton Set To Part Ways With Mark Hughes In The Event That They Don't Win Next Match

EXCLUSIVE: Saints prepared to pull the trigger on manager with one win and a solitary open-play goal in the League since September 

Mark Hughes is confronting the sack as Southampton manager on the off chance that they neglect to win Saturday's home match against Watford . 

Sunday's 6-1 whipping without end to Champs Manchester City implies Saints still have only one League triumph this season — against Crystal Palace on September first — and have figured out how to score just once from open play in the best trip since the center of that month. 

A few supporters are tired of the brand of football served up by ex-Southampton striker Hughes, who spared them from the drop last season in the wake of supplanting Mauricio Pellegrini in March — two months on from his very own sacking by relegation bound 

The board are comprehended to be prepared to act if there is anything short of triumph at the end of the week. 

Best of the rundown of potential substitutions are Sam Allardyce and David Moyes, while a prominent decision among the supporters is previous Saints manager Gordon Strachan. 

Leonardo Jardim, as of late jettisoned by Monaco, had been high on the board's list of things to get however the Portuguese currently looks set for a move to the Chinese Super League, with Beijing Guoan a plausibility. 

Sunday's humiliation at the Etihad left Saints only two points over the relegation zone. 

Southampton may have finished their desolate kept running before goal with Danny Ings' penalty on the half-hour, yet it never had a craving for changing the diversion as City had just scored three times in the games's initial 18 minutes.

"That is the game gone right from the outset," said Hughes, a former Blues boss. "Any other work you have prepared and the game plan you want to implement goes out the window.

"It is difficult when you are down. You can't overcommit because Man City have the ability to run over the top of you and it gets even more embarrassing. Six-one is not a result we take any pride in but the fact we were trying to create chances when the game was gone shows the character was good."