Southampton manager Nathan Jones reported he has “enable his gamers down” just after their 3- defeat at Brentford, and got “carried away” for the reason that they are in the Premier League.
Saints are bottom of the table, a few factors from protection.
They have shed eight of their 13 matches considering that Jones was appointed in November.
“I want to be brutally genuine with this, I have let the players down,” Jones instructed BBC Match of the Day.
“I was recruited to do selected things and I you should not see my team in there. I have pandered a minimal little bit, I have long gone absent and tried out to accommodate what we have.
“I haven’t seriously set my very own stamp on it and I should have by now, I genuinely ought to have.”
Jones led Luton to previous season’s Championship engage in-offs, exactly where they were being beaten by Huddersfield Town in the semi-finals.
He took over at Kenilworth Street with the Hatters battling in League Two, guiding them to next in League A single when he left for an ill-fated spell with Stoke City in 2019.
Just after successful just six of his 38 matches at Stoke he returned to a Luton aspect 23rd in the Championship, encouraging them stay up on the closing day of the 2019-20 season.
“I was recruited to do a selected occupation, to perform in a certain way simply because my groups did genuinely well,” Jones added. “We defended the box, we have been intense, front-footed, we put groups under pressure, we pressed, we counter-pressed genuinely perfectly.
“I blame myself. I should be driving the benchmarks. All over the place I’ve been I have drove requirements, I have not let any person get away with something. I’ve been on top of all people.
“I have maybe acquired carried away that these are Premier League players and you have to give them this and that, but no more.”
Southampton have conceded 53 goals in their previous 27 Premier League matches, keeping just 1 clean sheet in that time, and they were regularly carved open by Brentford on Saturday.
Chants of “you’re acquiring sacked in the early morning” and “Nathan Jones, get out of our club” were listened to from away supporters at the Gtech Community Stadium.
Rooted to the base of the Premier League, Saints hope to boost on a operate that has brought 4 defeats in their previous 5 game titles.
“The manager drives standards. I took a great deal of accolades at my preceding clubs and manager of the year and statistically 1 of the very best in the region and 1 of the most intense supervisors,” continued Jones.
“On an absolute shoestring, by the way. Pound-for-pound there wasn’t anyone else in the place competing like we did in conditions of details-per-pound.
“I’ve experimented with to give folks what they want, I’ve experimented with to truly do the job with the players to give them a method that suits them.
“But it doesn’t fit me. It has not suited me as a manager or why I was recruited to occur below.”
