Southampton did try to get it right. There was concrete reported interest in Fabio Carvalho, Liam Delap, Jack Clarke, Matt O’Riley and Max Aarons. The arrival of Aaron Ramsdale from Arsenal was a coup ...

If that presented summer 2022, the first full transfer window under new ownership, as the most pivotal in Southampton’s medium-term future, what you see now are its results. Oriol Romeu was sold to ...