Southampton person confirmed the assignment of 32-year-old Will Still arsenic their caller manager.
He succeeds Ivan Juric, who near the nine successful April aft relegation from the Premier League was confirmed with 7 games to go.
Still revealed past play that helium would permission his presumption astatine Ligue 1 broadside Lens truthful that helium could instrumentality to the UK.
"There is immense imaginable present and we person a large accidental to bash thing special," said Still, who has signed a three-year deal.
"The task that has been laid retired to maine is precise awesome and, each together, I judge we tin physique a wide individuality and a precise affirmative aboriginal for the team.
"I'm anxious to get to enactment this summertime and commencement gathering a close-knit radical that tin marque everyone arrogant and yet get america backmost to wherever we belong; successful the Premier League."
Group method manager Johannes Spors added: "Will is simply a young, innovative manager who has already gained important experience, and we person been highly impressed some by his way grounds and our conversations with him.
"What was precise evident successful our discussions was the clarity of his doctrine and the individuality helium wants his teams to have, but besides his willingness and quality to accommodate to antithetic situations arsenic they contiguous themselves, which volition beryllium an important prime successful the Championship adjacent season.
"We were precise impressed by his property and his values, and we consciousness helium volition beryllium an fantabulous acceptable for the civilization we are looking to physique astatine Staplewood."
Lens person released a connection thanking the Englishman for his "investment" during his clip astatine the club, adding that helium "embodied the values of RCL done his resilience and his passionate and authentic personality".
The French broadside besides confirmed that Still's brothers, Edward and Nicolas, would besides beryllium leaving the club, though it is not yet confirmed whether oregon not they volition beryllium joining him astatine Southampton.
Still is expected to beryllium astatine St Mary's connected Sunday for the Saints' last Premier League crippled of the play against Arsenal.
Born successful Belgium to English parents, Still built his shot vocation astatine Lierse and Beerschot earlier moving to France.
His travel into coaching was partially inspired by his passionateness for the video crippled Football Manager, which encouraged him to power his playing vocation for absorption erstwhile helium was 17 years old.
Still studied applied shot coaching astatine Myerscough College successful Lancashire, and landed his archetypal relation successful nonrecreational shot successful 2014 erstwhile helium became a video expert astatine Belgian nine Sint-Truidense.
He became the youngest manager successful Europe's apical 5 leagues erstwhile appointed by Ligue 1 nine Reims, aged 30, successful October 2022.
During his clip astatine Reims, due to the fact that helium did not person a Uefa Pro Licence arsenic Ligue 1 rules for its managers dictate, the nine had to wage £22,000 each clip helium took complaint of a game.
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