Ralph Hasenhuttl recently appeared in an interview with SkySports. The Austrian expressed his excitement about the upcoming season.
“It was important for us, I think, after nearly four years with me and the same group, that we make some changes,” Ralph Hasenhuttl explains to SkySports.
“It doesn’t mean we have done a bad job in the last years. I think we definitely did a very good job to stay in the league with this team every season without any relegation problems.
“But we have tried to give the players a new input and we have tried to give them some new voices on the pitch because they deserved to get that after such a long time.”
“The first step, if you want to get better, is always to see what you haven’t done well, being self-critical and honest to yourself,” says Hasenhuttl as he reflects on the run of nine losses from 12 Premier League games which saw Saints drop to 15th in last season’s Premier League table.
“We have had every year the same situation. One time we ended up higher because we had the Covid break and we could reset a little bit and work on some behaviours.
“But otherwise, we were always struggling with keeping the level high at the end of the season.
“It looked that we couldn’t overperform for the whole year. Otherwise it wouldn’t be overperforming, it would be our normal level.
“We definitely didn’t underperform last season,” adds Hasenhuttl. “The level that we reach at the moment is the level we have as a club. But that doesn’t mean that we have to accept it.
“It means that we have to find ways to push this level higher.
“This is what we are trying this season again.”
