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North East Defender On The Radar Again

Saints are again being linked with a target that if they had signed last summer would perhaps made this season a lot better.

If Saints had signed Middlesbrough's Ben Gibson last summer then they might well have avoided a lot of the soft goals conceded and had another top ten finish.

Signing Gibson was taken out of their hands though as the central defender opted to stay with Boro for another year and signed a new contract also ending interest from not only allegedly Saints but West Bromwich Albion.

The media is once again touting him for a move and having done his duty and stayed to try and help Boro to a quick return to the Premier League it seems that he will now leave his hometown club and it's Chairman his uncle Steve Gibson.

Saints are reported to be interested at the £20 million mark although it is more likely to be a million or five more to prise him away.

His arrival or indeed another central defender will probably see the departure of Yoshida and perhaps in January Jack Stephens, the emergence of Jan Bednarek will probably see Saints go with a Wesley Hoedt and a new signing as first choice central defenders and Bednarek as back up.

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