Ivan Juric points the finger at recruitment after his Southampton side break an unwanted Premier League record for the swiftest relegation

Southampton brag Ivan Juric pointed the digit astatine the club's recruitment aft they became the fastest squad to beryllium relegated successful Premier League history.

The Saints are heading backmost to the Championship astatine the archetypal clip of asking aft a 3-1 decision astatine Tottenham confirmed their destiny with a grounds 7 matches inactive to play.

Southampton person conscionable 10 points — 1 shy of Derby's all-time debased — and Croatian manager Juric, who has won conscionable 1 of his 14 League games successful charge, blamed an imbalanced squad.

'Recruitment is everything successful football,' said Juric.

'We person a batch of talented young players, but with not galore games successful the Premier League. What I noticed astir successful 3 oregon 4 months present is the wholly antithetic physicality betwixt america and the different teams successful the League.

'Now is the infinitesimal to recognize the mistakes the nine made successful the past 3 oregon 4 years and commencement to make thing truly good.'

All that remains for Southampton present is to bushed Derby's harrowing people of 11 points from 2007-08.

'It's our goal, to debar being the worst squad successful Premier League history,' said Juric, who wants to enactment for adjacent season. 'The fans merit more. Every idiosyncratic that works astatine Southampton has to bash amended and make thing stronger.'

Saints fans gave their squad a lasting ovation astatine the last whistle. 'The emotion they amusement is incredible,' said Juric.

'They merit more. Every idiosyncratic that works astatine Southampton has to bash amended and make thing stronger.'

Tottenham climbed backmost up to 14th with the triumph and lifted spirits up of a Europa League 4th last against Eintracht Frankfurt connected Thursday, though Ange Postecoglou was not wholly satisfied.

'First half, we were truly disciplined,' said Postecoglou. 'We constricted them to 1 accidental and going guardant looked arsenic threatening arsenic we've looked for rather a while.

'Second half, we became excessively passive without the ball, allowed Southampton to get a spot of rhythm, were sloppy with shot and the substitutions didn't marque the interaction I wanted.

'Overall, the important happening is the win, to people 3 goals and get everyone done unscathed acceptable for a large nighttime connected Thursday.'