With a quiet fortnight in the Premier League for the International break, the transfer rumours are flying around again, the latest sees Saints linked with a move for an ex player.

Saints are being linked with Alex Oxlade Chamberlain who left St Mary's for Arsenal in the summer of 2011 after his Father acting as his agent allegedly fell out with then Chairman Nicola Cortese.

Since then AOC has had a mixed time at the Emirates, at St Mary's in his one full season in 2010/11 after making his debut and one other appearance off the bench in 09/10, he started 27 games for Saints plus another 7 off the bench.

In his almost five season at Arsenal he has barely started 20 more than that total for the Gunners having played 49 from the start plus another 51 appearances off the bench and it is this lack of game time especially as first choice that means that he could leave Arsenal in the summer.

This has also seen his hopes of going to the European Championships plummet and he is far from certain to make Roy Hodgson's squad as his career is starting to look a mirror image of Theo Walcott who ten years after leaving Saints has still yet to truly realise his potential.

Saints will face competition of they do try to re sign Oxlade Chamberlain, Liverpool and Manchester City are also linked.

Although City on paper would seem his best bet he may feel that it would be just jumping out of the fire and into the frying pan, his chances of game time would be even less than at the Emirates.

Liverpool would of course be a very good bet for him and he would fit their style of play, however it could swing in Saints favour if they qualified for Europe next season and Liverpool did not.

Again this is yet another rumour that is doing the rounds in a quiet week for domestic football, but it does empathise where Saints stand in the footballing world these days when we compare who we would have been linked with just a couple of years ago.

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perazi added 08:40 - Mar 23 Be very surprised if this happened; about as much chance as Morgan returning.
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halftimeorange added 09:37 - Mar 23 He's always out injured - 'nuff said!
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mbtsfc added 09:38 - Mar 23 It does actually EMPHASISE where SAINTS are,Nick!
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mouland9 added 10:41 - Mar 23 Would be a great signing, especially if we lose the likes of Mané.
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bigrob68 added 11:16 - Mar 23 If he's not good enough for Arsenal he is not good enough for Saints, after all we play the same teams.
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saintjeff52 added 12:03 - Mar 23 Don't think he would want to come back. More MONEY at Citeh, and Liverpool. Anyway, he is Sicknote 3 after Gardos, and Austin. Injured more than he is available. Another Talent who left Saints too early, BUT the Money is good. Basically 'Nah, You're Alright' in respect of Oxo
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BoondockSaint added 12:34 - Mar 23 Next time you have a headline like this Nick, it better be Bale you are talking about! Oxo plays OK (when he plays) but only scores against lower league competition and he disappears in the big games. In other words: the perfect Scousehampton or Citehad player. Like others, he's been found out and now him and his dad are looking around for some team stupid enough to be conned into buying him. He should try the MLS, which to be honest, might be a good fit for him. If he's not good enough for a mid-table team like Arsene's he's not good enough for us. Sign the Albanian lad you mention in the other post instead.

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SanMarco added 16:21 - Mar 23 "jumping out of the fire and into the frying pan" - thought it was the other way round. Oxo is no better than what we've got and he is always injured - next rumour please...
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SaintBrock added 18:48 - Mar 23 People don't go back in real life. Leaving home is a one way trip. Let's move on.
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