Simon Jordan, a talkSPORT pundit and former owner of Crystal Palace, does not think Southampton head coach Tonda Eckert should be banned because the team has already received enough punishment for the Spygate scandal.

Southampton has had a respectable start to the season in the Championship, but off-field incidents are once again making headlines at St Mary’s. This week will be key as Eckert gets ready to find out his fate.

Tonda Eckert, the Southampton manager, must wait anxiously for Spygate’s conclusion.

Jordan maintained that the German should not be banned, arguing that Southampton has already received a “extreme” punishment for Spygate, even though he thinks Eckert will need to be sanctioned by the FA.

Jordan responded, “They’re two different things really, aren’t they?” on talkSPORT when asked if the Saints had endured enough hardship.Both the individual and the club exist.He apologised, and although I didn’t believe he had done anything wrong, I assume he is doing so because he was instructed to.

He felt, in my opinion, that he had done nothing wrong and was unaware of it.He didn’t see anything wrong with it if he had done it in the first place.He most likely believes it’s a ridiculous rule that didn’t apply to him or require him to follow.I stated at the time that I believed the club had suffered and that the penalty was excessive.They would have been in third or fourth place in the league this year due to a points penalty,

which indicates that the man is capable of managing without spying because his squad is achieving results on the field.This manager is obviously competent.What they’ve done with him internally will determine this.I would look to the FA commission, who may be trying to establish themselves, if I were in charge of it internally.

“If you follow the line of what the club has been sanctioned, he would be in the Tower of London by that reference point.”The disciplinary panel can only truly pursue him and do something terrible to him, such as barring him from the game for an extended length of time, if they choose to draw attention to themselves.The club has been sanctioned, and I have a suspicion that he has had serious internal difficulties with the club’s ownership and management.”Jordan went on,

“I think they’ll have to sanction him to some extent, but I don’t think it should extend to him being taken out of the game.”Regarding their employee, Southampton has reached a decision.The club should be within the FA’s authority, and as the club has been sanctioned,

the manager has also been sanctioned.Apart from the need for the governing body to be perceived to take action, I’m not sure if the club itself needs to censure the manager.Jordan continued, “I felt, and still feel, that Southampton were treated remarkably harshly.”I hope they don’t because you can’t double dip and you can’t now take their manager out.”That isn’t correct, in my opinion.

The FA must take sensible Tonda Eckert approach after previous Southampton sanctions

It is hard to dispute with Jordan that the EFL’s response against Southampton was excessive, and others will contend that Spygate’s removal from the play-off final and four-point deduction are adequate penalties.

Others, however, will believe that Eckert should receive some sort of personal punishment because he personally approved the eavesdropping operations; he might even be suspended from football or given a touchline ban.

Since Eckert has repeatedly admitted his error and expressed regret for his part in Spygate, the FA should choose a less severe penalty because suspending him would seriously disrupt the Saints’ season and possibly ruin it.