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Hoedt On Verge Of A Move To Spain

Wesley Hoedt is being reported as being about to join Sofiane Boufal in La Liga according to the Spanish media.

Wesley Hoedt is about to join Sofiane Boufal at Celta Vigo according to Victor Lopez of Spanish news station Radio Galega on what would be a loan move to the end of the season.

Hoedt of course has been a scapegoat for many and has yet to feature under Ralph Hasenhuttl.

But Hoedt has not been the worst player in the centre of Saints defence this season, in fact I would say he has been perhaps the best of a bad bunch, but when you are a whipping boy for certain sections of the crowd then there is no leeway.

People forget the man of the match performances that Hoedt had at Crystal Palace & Bournemouth and only remember the odd error, the defeat at Fulham saw the Dutchman blamed for the defeat for a poor clearance up the line rather than blaming those who left players completely unmarked on all three goals.

Hoedt has not been played by Hasenhuttl who stated at the start of his reign that everybody would be given a chance and he has stayed true to his word, it is strange that academy players have been given a run out but Hoedt has not, which suggests that his departure is not about his playing ability, but about his desire to play for the club.

Whilst most have knuckled down and embraced the new regime it seems that Hoedt may be one who does not want to get on the bus and would prefer to move on.

From the point of view of the abuse he has got from supporters you cannot blame him for that and we need to learn a lesson from this, Ralph Hasenhuttl seemed to have noticed this tendency for certain players to be abused and felt it necessary to urge the crowd to get behind the team and keep them going by supporting their endeavours not abusing them.

We should note that in the past few weeks players like Nathan Redmond, James Ward Prowse, Shane Long and even Jannik Vestergaard, just four who have had more than their fair share of abuse have put in match winning displays that have helped us win games and move up the league, I hoped that might have been the case for Wesley Hoedt but sadly it seems not.

If you are sat there reading this and feeling pleased tat a player for this football club has failed and is leaving the club then that is a strange way to support a football team, I criticise players on this website and in the pub etc, but I don't hate them and want them to fail, I don't scream at them if they slice a ball into touch, I want them to prove me wrong and succeed, because if they do then it means that Southampton FC have a better chance of achieving it's aims.

If you think I am wrong and that abusing a player all the time encourages him, don't take it up with me, take it up with Ralph Hasenhuttl because you are certainly not on his bus.

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