Saints midfielder Dean Hammond has joined Leicester City on a two year deal to end his four year stay at St Marys.
Dean Hammond was one of the first players to arrive at St Marys after Marks Liebherr took over the club and spent the first three years as not only a first team regular but also as captain as Saints recovered from a change of manager to win the game of catch up with Huddersfield and win automatic promotion from league one.
Although Dean would be a regular in the following season as promotion was clinched for a second successive year it would soon be clear that Dean would not be a part of the plans for the top flight.
Unfortunately Dean is one of those players who are more than good enough in the Championship but not quite good enoughfor the Premier, sadly a group that is increasing rapidly of late.
So now Dean joins Leicester City a club looking to emulate Saints, good luck to Dean, a player who although not quite a Saints legend, played a decent part in its history and fully deserves to bevremembered fondly by Saints fans and thanked should he return in the future with Leicester or otherwise.