Southampton fans have taken to Twitter to react after The Sun reported that Erik Stoffelshaus is being lined up as a candidate to become the club’s Sporting Director, replacing Ross Wilson.
Wilson recently departed for Scottish giants Rangers, and the Saints are seemingly keen to find a replacement swiftly.
Stoffelshaus forged his reputation in Germany with Schalke, where he helped bring players such as Manuel Neuer, Mesut Ozil and Ivan Rakitic to the Bundesliga side.
Additionally, the man also wanted by Manchester United was a huge success in Russia, where he played a part in Lokomotiv Moscow’s captures of Jefferson Farfan, Grzegorz Krychowiak and Fyodor Smolov.
The south coast side are presumably still hurting from their embarrassing 9-0 defeat to Leicester at St Mary’s, so they will be hoping that Stoffelshaus can help get them back to the glory days under Mauricio Pochettino and Ronald Koeman – if he does replace Wilson, that is.
Let’s take a look at how some of the Saints support reacted to the news on Twitter…