Phil Brown has told talkSPORT he is hoping to be named the new manager of Southampton after holding talks with the League One club.

The 51-year-old has been out of work since leaving Hull earlier this year but met Saints chairman Nicola Cortese on Monday to discuss a return to management on the South Coast, as successor to the sacked Alan Pardew.

And Brown admits he was mightily impressed by the club's bold plans for the future. He told the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast: "It was very interesting, there's a very, very ambitious board. A very ambitious chairman."

"They've got (Les) Reed in there as a sort of director of football but he's got a different name to that.

"They certainly seem to be doing it right in the backroom, they're building the club from within and they've got a long-term plan. It's very, very ambitious.

"Everything about it is ready to move on. Albeit Alan had a half decent start, for whatever reason Alan Pardew found himself out of work and now there's a position down there. It is an ambitious club and certainly one that does interest me."