'Juric will not be scared of the task'

Italian Football Expert Daniele Verri spoke to BBC Radio Solent about what Southampton fans can expect from incoming manager Ivan Juric: "He normally plays with a three-man defence with a lone striker. He used to like having a player behind the striker, a sort of playmaker up front. In the last few years he has changed his tactical opinion so he hasn't been playing a lot with the man behind the lone striker.

"He is a manager who speaks directly - a man of personality. I expect him not to be scared of the task and show his personality.

"He sees football as solidity - he tends to be quite defensive minded and will try to counter attack, and I think this is what he will apply at Southampton. He will have to fix the defensive issues and it is the first thing he will work on."

On his failures at Roma, Verri added: "Juric turned up in a period of complete turmoil for the club - he had no backing from the club. He didn't get on with the players and no one wanted him there.

"He was a dead man walking from day one in Rome. He took the chance to do it, but it was simply wrong from A to Z."

Listen to the full analysis on Juric here