With Ruben Selles once again running the show as caretaker manager, the big question is how long this will continue, will Saints continue their search for a permanent manager from outside the club.
Ruben Selles arrived at St Mary's in the summer, the 39 year old Spaniard came in as assistant to Ralph Hasenhuttl to give the Austrian some much needed experience in the coaching set up as Saints revamped the managers backroom staff.
There were some that said that Selles arrived to be groomed as the replacement to Ralph, who had previously stated that when his contract was up he would retire from football.
So who is Selles and what is his background and is he qualified to take over both in the short and longer term ?
He was born in Valencia in Spain on 15th June 1983, little seems to be known of his early career choices, although he has a Master's degree in Sports & Physiology from the University of Valencia, and graduated UEFA's Pro Licence programme aged 25.
The first known sighting of him in football seems to have come shortly afterwards when he firstly became fitness coach at Greek club Aris Thessaloniki. he departed in 2009 to perform a similar role for the Villarreal youth team.
He was now upwardly mobile in football and in 2010 went to Russian side FC Shinnik Yaroslavl then in the Russian Premier L:eague as assistant manager, after a season there he returned to Aris Thessaloniki in the Greek Super League again as assistant.
Now the clubs were coming thick and fast, next destination in 2012 was Neftchi Baku an Azerbaijani football club based in the capital, Baku, that plays in the Azerbaijan Premier League again as the assistant manager.
It was a two year stay there till in 2014 he had a change of tack and then spent a year at Norwegian club Strømsgodset Toppfotball, working as Chief Data Analyst.
He was clearly looking to get experience not just in different areas of coaching but also different countries.
So in 2015 it was back to Azerbaijan, but this time to Quarabag FK as guess what Assistant manager.
Two seasons experience there then saw him going to Denmark in 2018 to join Aarhus where he helped the club in yet another assistant manager's role to their first trophy in 20 years before leaving in 2020 to become the manager of Villareal's Under 18 team, his first actual managerial role.
That was for less than a year though and in January 2021 it was back to Denmark and back to an assistant manager's role at FC Kopenhagen where he stayed until the summer of 2022 when he joined Southampton.
So it cannot be argued that Ruben has had a very grounded career in football so far, he has learnt his trade, but the worry is if he takes over for the rest of the season at St Mary's whether he can make what is a gigantic step from over a decade of being an assistant manager, to actually be running the team.
Does he have what it takes to be the main man and make the decisions.
The problem with moving up a level with the club you are with is going from being plain Ruben on the training ground to suddenly be the Gaffer.
That is why it rarely works when an assistant manager takes over as the head man at the club he is with.
So from a Saints perspective I do not think it is the right time to promote him to be the replacement for Nathan Jones, he does not have any managerial experience only as an assistant, and more poignantly he has little Premier League experience.
But perhaps the most important issue is that after the departure of Ralph and then Nathan Jones, we need a fresh face in the dressing room, although Selles might not have been the problem for the players under either manager, the truth is that if he is promoted in essence as far as the players and indeed the fans are concerned nothing has changed.
We need the bounce of a new man with new ideas not only on the pitch in the Premier League, but also on the Staplewood training ground.
The players need to be invigorated, on Monday morning turning up for training probably little had changed, things just went on as normal, it needs a new face and it needs it fast.
Whether Ruben Selles goes on to be a respected manager or as some clubs like to term it these days, Head Coach, is yet to be decided, I truly hope he does, but now is not the time to find out.
If as i mentioned the plan was to let him learn his trade in the Premier League and then groom him to take over in 2024 that is a strategy and that strategy should not change just because the situation demands it.
I don't know who the club could turn to next, clearly there was something about Jesse Marsch that the club felt was not worth offering him the deal he wanted, we have seemingly discounted Steven Gerrard and Chris Wilder already, this should be an encouraging sign, we are not panicking, at least not just yet.
But appointing Selles would be a wrong move on several levels, the first as i mentioned we need a fresh face, we also need one that the players can respect and who can impose leadership in the dressing room and we most importantly need one with experience at the level we are playing at, if not Premier League certainly a top flight club in another country, preferably one of the major leagues.
Ruben Selles will be key to helping a new man adapt, Saints have a big squad and any new man cannot afford to have to spent time working out who is up to what is going to be a tough task in avoiding relegation, he will need to be keyed in to those who need to be on the pitch from day one.
I don't think Ruben Selles is ready yet to take on the top job, I hope he is in a couple of years time.