Any Porto In A Storm For Claude Puel ?
According to the Portugese media Claude Puel is on a five man shortlist to take over the vacant managers job at Porto.
Porto sacked their manager Nuno Santo yesterday the Portugese media are claiming that the club have a five man shortlist that they want to interview for the vacant position, Marco Silva, Claudio Ranieri, Paulo Sousa and Sérgio Conceição are four of them and they are apparently joined by Claude Puel.
Given that Silva and Ranieri have already been linked with Saints with some sources claiming that Silva's first choice is St Mary's, this is a real managerial merry go round.
Porto have been impressed by Puel's record at Saints this season although the issues that Saints supporters have with Puel is not how well he has done on paper, after all it was only three years ago that we were celebrating Mauricio Pochettino getting us to the same 8th position that Puel has achieved this season and back then we did not have the addition of a cup final.
It is the style of play and Puel's inability to find any consistency due to his rotation policy that has upset the Saints support, there are mitigating circumstances as to why it hasn't been as good as we had hoped, but in the final third of the season Puel has done himself no favours with the team failing to score in the final five home games.
The selections in the final games varied greatly and with rumours of discontent in the squad there are probably a sizable portion of Saints supporters who would drive him to Portugal themselves if he was to be offered the job.
However there are still those who believe that Puel has done well under the circumstances and perhaps try to look at the bigger picture, sometimes you have to step back and take a look at how others see you and certainly Puel seems to have no shortage of clubs who would be willing to offer him a job should Saints decide he has to go.
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