There are sure to be dozens of irate Saints supporters now venting their spleen about how Mauriccio Pochettino was allowed to leave Saints but that does not matter one iota, all that matters now is what happens next.
There are going to be those who start to point the finger of blame at one person or another as to why Mauriccio Pochettino is no longer manager of Southampton Football Club, but the truth is that it can only be pointed in one direction and that is the man himself.
Im not blaming him for leaving, it was just that fate collided at the right time for him and knowing just how unstable a job is with a Premier league club, any Premier League club, he probably knew that he had to take his chance when it arose.
But all of that matters not one iota, Mauriccio Pochettino did not want to be manger of Saints anymore, he is now in the past, just as Alan Pardew suddenly was and the man who followed him Nigel Adkins, what matters now is who we replace him with.
There seems to be no shortage of candidates for the job and there are a lot of managers who are well qualified to take over and indeed the board seems to be well advanced in their search, in some respects though the World Cup is going to take the heat off them and leave them time to sort out a replacement, the fact we havent got a manager means that we perhaps wont sell anyone in the short term and certainly not before the World Cup.
We are not the first club to lose a manager that the fans loved and we wont be the last, indeed ask Everton fans how they felt a year ago when David Moyes left and ask them a year on, Pochettino played a part in Saints resurgence over the past 18 months, we are grateful to him for that, however he did not help build the foundations in the 3 1/2 years before that, he is gone, the club will go on.
What matters now is that the supporters unite behind whoever replaces Pochettino, he doesn't want to be here anymore purely because he had the chance to go to a bigger club, 13 year ago we felt the same way when Glenn Hoddle left, we survived and we prospered, we will do so again.